[Verse 1]
Where would I be?
Where would I be?
Where would I be?
Without Your grace.
Lord I'm grateful
Lord I'm grateful
Only by Your grace
Lord I'm grateful
I'm so grateful
If I'm here
It's only by Your grace
Grace
Song Meaning
Deborah Lukalu keeps "Grace" reduced to its barest possible form — a single question asked three times, and a single answer repeated until it becomes the whole song: "where would I be without Your grace?" Nothing about the specific circumstances behind that question is ever explained; the song trusts the question to apply broadly rather than narrating one particular rescue.
"Lord, I'm grateful, only by Your grace" keeps the response equally unadorned, refusing to build the gratitude into a longer testimony or a list of reasons. The brevity itself becomes part of the song's argument — some claims don't need elaboration to be true, and repeating a short one plainly can carry as much weight as a fully developed verse.
"If I'm here, it's only by Your grace" closes the song on presence itself as the evidence being pointed to — not a particular accomplishment or answered prayer, just the plain fact of still being here, credited entirely to something outside the singer's own effort.