Grateful

Kurt Carr keeps this one almost entirely inside two words, repeated and expanded rather than developed into verses with new content — 'grateful' and 'praise You' trade places as the song's focus, each one getting its own short movement before the other takes over. There's no bridge introducing a new idea; the whole structure is variation on a single posture.

'For everything You've done for me' stays intentionally unspecific, closer to 1 Chronicles 16:34's simple instruction to 'give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good' than to a testimony naming particular blessings. 'I lift my hands and praise You, because I'm grateful' ties the physical gesture directly to the emotional state, following Psalm 100:4's pairing of thanksgiving with entering God's presence — not gratitude as a private feeling, but as something meant to be physically enacted in worship alongside everyone else singing it.