The Getting By

[00:07.77] When I get up, she swears that she don't hear it
[00:16.19] Says that I'm as quiet as a mouse
[00:24.26] I comb my hair, throw some water on my face
[00:32.35] And back out of the stillness of our house
[00:39.33] Lately my patience is in short supply
[00:47.44] Nothing good seems to ever come
[00:52.71] From all this work no matter how hard I try
[01:03.28] You know I believe in the Son
[01:05.84] I ain't no backslider
[01:10.99] But my people were told
[01:13.24] They'd prosper in this land
[01:19.69] Still I know some
[01:21.71] Who've never seen the ocean
[01:28.06] Or set one foot on a velvet bed of sand
[01:34.35] But they've got their treasure laying way up high
[01:43.86] Where there might be many mansions
[01:47.73] But when I look up all I see is sky
[01:57.75] Maybe it's the getting by
[02:00.54] That gets right underneath you
[02:05.83] It'd swallow up your every step
[02:09.75] Boy, if it could
[02:14.01] But maybe it's the stuff it takes
[02:16.91] To get up in the morning
[02:22.12] And put another day in, son
[02:26.13] That holds you till the getting's good
[02:34.23] Green ribbon front doors
[02:38.29] Dishwater days
[02:42.18] This whole town
[02:43.78] Is tied to the torso of God's mysterious ways
[02:53.26] Maybe it's the getting by
[02:55.80] That gets right underneath you
[03:01.14] It'd swallow up your every step
[03:05.34] Boy, if it could
[03:09.36] But maybe it's the stuff it takes
[03:12.30] To get up in the morning
[03:17.79] And put another day in, son
[03:21.40] That keeps you standing where you should
[03:25.69] So put another day in, son
[03:29.87] And hold on till the getting's good
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