[Intro]
Oh, Lord
Times are hard
Life is hard
But we've been here before
That's why I know
[Chorus]
We gon' be fine this time
We gon' be fine this time, we gon' be
We gon' be fine this time
We gon' be fine this time, we gon' be
Yeah, and my mind is fine
Finally it's my time
Feeling like the sunshine
We gon' be fine this time
We gon' be fine this time, we gon' be
[Verse 1]
Hands to the air, hands to the air
Long as you're there, you got me
You're in control, I let it go
One thing I know, we gon' be
We gon' be fine this time
Came to the battle side
Life won't lose my mind
Devil's a lie
Got that fire in the sky, we gon' be
[Chorus]
Okay, okay, okay
Times are looking up for me
Ain't no watching me
Protect me when I'm falling
Okay, it's okay
The way you have for me
Clearer than I can see
It can make me keep on falling
'Cause I know, I know
The wins are coming, though
But this for sure
We've been through this before
Soon enough, and we've been down
Call it moving up, look at us now
We gon' be fine this time
We see the light this time
We gon' be fine this time
We gon' be fine this time, we gon' be
[Chorus]
We gon' be fine this time
We gon' be fine this time, we gon' be
Yeah, and my mind is fine
Finally it's my time
Feeling like the sunshine
We gon' be fine this time
We gon' be fine this time, we gon' be
[Verse 2]
Hands to the air, hands to the air
Long as you're there, you got me
You're in control, I let it go
One thing I know, we gon' be
We gon' be fine this time
Came to the battle side
Life won't lose my mind
Devil's a lie
Got that fire in the sky, we gon' be
[Bridge]
By the stretch of your hand
You help me understand
Anything else fail?
What's gon' happen?
You always got to play the biggest prayer war
I know my words reach to back of me
And turn right now
Instead I'm on the beach
Chilling in my heat
I'm in my bag of power
Blessed to have a faith
Well, I might just name my album
The devil working to go crazy
Somehow we still ain't won
You blessed me so much in this the fact
I know you still ain't done
Hey man
[Chorus]
We gon' be fine this time
We gon' be fine this time, we gon' be
We gon' be fine this time
We gon' be fine this time, we gon' be
Yeah, and my mind is fine
Finally it's my time
Feeling like the sunshine
We gon' be fine this time
We gon' be fine this time, we gon' be
[Outro]
We gon' be fine this time
We gon' be fine this time, we gon' be
Hands to the air, hands to the air
Long as you're there, you got me
You're in control, I let it go
One thing I know, we gon' be
We gon' be fine this time
Came to the battle side
Life won't lose my mind
Devil's a lie
Got that fire in the sky, we gon' be
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This Time
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Sep 28, 2026 updated
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Song Meaning
Kirk Franklin builds this track around a repeated promise — that things will be fine this time — spoken over a hard season rather than a comfortable one. The intro names the difficulty plainly (times are hard, life is hard) before pivoting to memory: we've been here before, and that history is the reason for confidence now. The chorus turns that confidence into a declaration, pairing a settled mind with the image of finally feeling like sunshine. In the verses, hands go up and control is handed over — you're in control, I let it go — while the devil is dismissed as a lie and fire appears in the sky. There's a battle-side posture here, but it isn't anxious; it's the calm of someone who has already survived this ground once. The bridge leans into trust language, crediting a stretched-out hand for understanding, and lands on gratitude that God isn't finished blessing yet. The song keeps circling back to its refrain, as if repetition itself is the act of faith — saying the thing until it holds.
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