Out Of This World

Michael W. Smith opens "Out Of This World" naming lack in plain terms — "empty pockets, got no green," "wanna go but got no car" — before pivoting to a specific counter-claim: "don't you know sunshine is free." The song doesn't pretend financial hardship isn't real, it argues something else is available regardless of it.

"What breaks have you had, some good and some bad" keeps the tone conversational rather than preachy, addressing the listener like a friend taking stock alongside them rather than delivering a verdict from above. The title phrase itself works as a double meaning — "it's out of this world" describes both an experience beyond ordinary circumstance and, read differently, points past the material world entirely.

"With a little love and a little giving" keeps the proposed solution modest and achievable rather than grand, matching the song's overall unpretentious tone. "Still you've got a friend in me" closes the second verse on companionship as the concrete offer underneath the song's broader claims about sunshine and giving — not an abstract promise, but a specific relationship being extended.