Don't You Want To Thank Someone chords by Andrew Peterson

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
|C majorC   |CsusCsus   |Am7Am7   |    |
|C majorC   |CsusCsus   |Am7Am7   |F2   |

Verse 1:
   C majorC
Well can't you feel it in your bones
 CsusCsus
Something isn't right here
 C majorC
Something that you've always known
          Am7Am7  F2
But you don't know why

    C majorC
'Cause every time the sun goes down
  CsusCsus
We face another night here
C majorC
Waiting for the world to spin around
      Am7Am7  F2
Just to survive

Chorus 1:
  Am7Am7
But when you see the morning sun
 GsusGsus
Burning through a silver mist
 Am7Am7
Don't you want to thank someone?
 F2               C majorC
Don't you want to thank someone for this?

Instrumental:
|C majorC   |    |F2    |    |

Verse 2:
   C majorC
Well have you ever wondered why
  CsusCsus
In spite of all that's wrong here
    C majorC
There's still so much that goes so right
      Am7Am7   F2
And beauty abounds?

    C majorC
'Cause sometimes when you walk outside
    CsusCsus
Oh the air is full of song here
   C majorC
The thunder rolls and the baby sighs
            Am7Am7      F2
And the rain comes down the rain comes down

Chorus 2:
  Am7Am7
And when you see the spring has come
    GsusGsus
And it warms you like a mother's kiss
Am7Am7
Don't you want to thank someone?
F2                  C majorC
Don't you want to thank someone for this?

Interlude:
C majorC            F2
    to thank someone for this
  C majorC
oh don't you want to thank someone
                F2
don't you want to thank someone for this

Verse 3:
  C majorC
I used to be a little boy
  CsusCsus
As golden as a sunrise
C majorC
Breaking over illinois
         Am7Am7   F2
When the corn was tall

     C majorC
Yeah, but every little boy grows up
     CsusCsus
And he's haunted by the heart that died
C majorC
Longing for the world that was
      Am7Am7  F2
Before the fall

Chorus 3:
 Am7Am7
Oh, but then forgiveness comes
 GsusGsus
A augmentedA grace that I cannot resist
  Am7Am7
And I just want to thank someone
F2                C majorC
I just want to thank someone for this

Instrumental:
|C majorC    |    |F2   |     |
|C majorC    |    |F2   |     |
|Am7Am7   |    |GsusGsus  |     |
|F2    |    |E minor 7Em7   |     |

Bridge:
  Am7Am7
Now I can see the world is charged
   GsusGsus
It's glimmering with promises
 F2
Written in a script of stars
 E minor 7Em7
Dripping from prophets' lips

  Am7Am7
But still, my thirst is never slaked
   GsusGsus
I am hounded by a restlessness
  F2
I'm eaten by this endless ache
  E minor 7Em7
But still I will give thanks for this

       Am7Am7
'Cause I can see it in the seas of wheat
   GsusGsus
I can feel it when the horses run
   F2
It's howling in the snowy peaks
   E minor 7Em7
It's blazing in the midnight sun

Am7Am7
Just behind a veil of wind
     GsusGsus
A augmentedA million angels waiting in the wings
  F2
A augmentedA swirling storm of cherubim
     E minor 7Em7
Making ready for the reckoning

  Am7Am7      GsusGsus
Oh, how long, how long?
 F2       GsusGsus
Oh, sing on, sing on

Verse 4:
   C majorC
And when the world is new again
    CsusCsus
And the children of the king
   C majorC
Are ancient in their youth again
       Am7Am7
Maybe it's a better thing
 F2
A augmentedA better thing
   C majorC
To be more than merely innocent
     CsusCsus
But to be broken then redeemed by love
C majorC
Maybe this old world is bent
           Am7Am7
But it's waking up
       F2
And I'm waking up

Chorus 4:
    Am7Am7
'Cause I can hear the voice of one
   GsusGsus
He's crying in the wilderness
   Am7Am7
"Make ready for the kingdom come"
 F2                C majorC
Don't you want to thank someone for this?
        F2
To thank someone for this

Ending:
   C majorC
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
   F2
Hallalujah! Hallelujah!
|C majorC     |      |F2     |     |(pretty much for 3 minutes)