Garth Brooks - Unanswered Prayers

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just the other night and a hometown football game
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my wife and i ran into my old high school flame
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and as i introduced them the past came back to me
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and i couldn’t help but think of the way things used to be

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she was the one that i’d wanted for all times
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and each night i’d spend prayin’ that god would make her mine
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and if he’d only grant me this wish i wished back then
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i’d never ask for anything again

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sometimes i thank god for unanswered prayers
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remember when you’re talkin’ to the man upstairs
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that just because he doesn’t answer doesn’t mean he don’t care
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some of god’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers

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she wasn’t quite the angel that i remembered in my dreams
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and i could tell that time had changed me
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in her eyes too it seemed
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we tried to talk about the old days
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there wasn’t much we could recall
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i guess the lord knows what he’s doin’ after all

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and as she walked away i looked at my wife
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and then and there i thanked the good lord
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for the gifts in my life

chorus :
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sometimes i thank god for unanswered prayers
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remember when you’re talkin’ to the man upstairs
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that just because he may not answer doesn’t mean he don’t care
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some of god’s greatest gifts are unanswered . . .
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some of god’s greatest gifts are all too often unanswered . . .
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some of god’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers