Name: Thanks
Duration: 5 min 21 s
Channel: Tom Hinkle
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Thanks

Tom Hinkle

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I give thanks (a sort of atheist humanist prayer).

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Tom Hinkle

Blues-influenced songster, churning out songs never-before heard about food, love, work, teaching Spanish, and more.

In an effort to get my music out into the world and to hone my writing practice, I'm starting a Song-A-Week project I'll attempt to release one brand new song per week for a year, starting today, Sunday, May 14th, 2006, and continuing through Sunday, May 13, 2007. Traditionally I, like most people, have written about love and sex — attraction, frustration, satisfaction, the works. As evidenced by the first song in my new series (about a job interview for a lame job), I'm trying to break out of this mold a bit more with my new series of songs... that said, I remain ever myself, and surely there will be more songs about love and whatnot.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Folk

Charts

Peak #1,469

Peak in subgenre #198

Author

Tom Hinkle

Rights

Tom Hinkle, 2006

Uploaded

June 04, 2006

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MP3

MP3 4.9 MB • 128 kbps • 5:21

Story behind the song

Wanting to write a song in a prayer/thanks form, except that I don't believe there's anyone to thank, except for other people that is.

Lyrics

For stuff that just works on the very first try
For the miracle of refraction, that makes the sunset shine
For ibuprofen and penicillin and fluoride
For modern dentistry and buses that run on time

I give thanks, I give thanks, I give thanks
I give thanks, I give thanks, I give thanks
I give thanks, I give thanks, I give thanks
But not to you, you ain't done a damned thing
Not to you, you ain't done a goddamned thing
But not to you, you ain't done a damned thing
I give my thanks to everyone who made these things

For the series of harmonics, when a pick meets a string,
For every desperate kiss that ends a round of bickering
For washing machines and bassists, for wireless internet
For black beans in a can for just 89 cents.

For all the steps from seed to food I never have to see,
For every hand and heart that helps provide for me
For every little joke that pulled me out of one of my moods,
For every worn cliche I've mindlessly reused

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