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You Never Know

By Rachael Lampa

760 views Sep 14, 2026 updated Rachael Lampa album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Rachael Lampa admits something most worship songs skip past — faith that doesn't stay steady. "One day your faith's strong, the next it can't be found," she sings, naming the inconsistency instead of pretending belief runs on a smooth, unbroken line.

Her posture toward that unevenness isn't panic; it's release. "I wanna place it in your hands, in your hands, even though I wanna understand," she admits, choosing to hand over the outcome rather than demand an explanation first. The title itself becomes a kind of relief rather than a source of anxiety — not knowing is where she's decided to actually rest.

Habakkuk models that same posture in Habakkuk 3:17-18, choosing to rejoice even when every visible sign of provision has failed, and Proverbs 3:5-6 calls for trusting God rather than leaning on personal understanding. Lampa's repeated line, "all I know it's outta my control," sounds less like defeat and more like the actual solution to the problem she opened with.

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[Verse 1]

I'm following the lines

Looking for the answers to a prayer

I'm looking for the signs

Waiting for the signal that you're there

If you ask why I believe

O the only thing that I could ever say

[Chorus]

You never know when life will turn around

One day your faith's strong the next it can't be found

And you're not looking

And all I know it's outta my control

And you never know

[Verse 2]

I try to figure in the time

When miracles should happen to appear

And when it comes down to it

There's nothing more that I can do down here

I wanna place it in your hands, in your hands

Even though I wanna understand

[Chorus]

You never know when life will turn around

One day your faith's strong the next it can't be found

And you're not looking

And all I know it's outta my control

And you never know

[Verse 3]

If you wanna spend your life

In your design, you're only wasting time

[Chorus]

You never know when life will turn around

One day your faith's strong the next it can't be found

And you're not looking

And all I know it's outta my control

And you never know

Yeah yeah

And you never know

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