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Eternia ft pHoenix Pagliacci - For This Life

from Bassments of Badmen 3 by Various Artists

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Verse 1
Before I was formed,
when I was born,
when I was 10-years-old.
When I moved out,
When I rejected the law.
When I had doubts,
When I could see that I failed.
When I dropped out,
when I was in denial,
when I called ‘em “minor details.”
When I would shout,
when I just couldn’t be saved.
When I would cuss you out for failing in fulfilling my way,
when I would pray.
When I would return
would I make amends?
Would You forgive me?
Would I have to pay a price for my sins?
or did You get me?
Did You witness all the things that I did?
And if You did would you despise me,
undermining all the stories you said?
Or would You find me, pick me out of everybody as kin,
And remind me of that’s why You sent Him
when I seek grace from within.
Would You embrace me, lift me out of disgrace?
Would You amaze me with the love that I could sense in Your face?
Would You abide in me and live in this place?
And walk beside me like a Father would His daughter with unfaltering grace?

CHORUS
For this life I’m forever thankful
(lemme tell you why)
I may have nothin’ to show
but at least I got it all.
At least I got it all!


Verse 2
And I aspire to live higher, desire more than I ever did.
Evidently I’ve been living focused on irrelevants.
Irreverent:
my actions, words, thoughts and my sentiments.
Had to take a step back – reflect a little bit,
reset intentions and
deflect the negative,
we let this world subdue us like a sedative.
Pill popping to Armageddon,
lost all perspective,
act reckless,
thirty and fourty-year-old adolescents!?
LORD – take me to the bottom,
that’s a blessing in disguise.
Take me to the end of whatever I hide behind:
my occupation, my pride,
my skills, and my lies,
my arrogance, my greediness,
the lust of my eyes.
I’m a self-proclaimed self-involved self-centred arrogant chick.
I got an answer that’ll shut your mouth quick,
I got a cancer in my heart you can’t fix.
I got resentments, I’m defensive, disconnected…
let His grace flow in.

CHORUS 2
For this life I’m forever grateful.
I may mean nothing to you, and you, and you, and you, and you…
but in Him I got it all.
but in Him I got it all.
Just be thankful for what you got
I know to you, to you, to you, to you it might seem like nothing…
but in Him it’s a whole lot
(at least I got it all!)

Bridge (2 Corinthians 6:8-10)
Through glory and dishonor,
bad report and good report,
genuine, yet regarded as imposters,
known, yet regarded as unknown
dying and yet we live on
Beaten, and yet not killed,
sorrowful, yet always rejoicing,
poor , yet making many rich,
Having nothing, and yet possessing…
everything.

OUTRO
Oooohhh… for this life….
Oooooohhh…. For this Life!

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from Bassments of Badmen 3, released September 30, 2016
Lyrics written and performed by Eternia and Phoenix Pagliacci 
Produced by A. Beck
Written by A. Beck (ASCAP) | S. Kaya (SOCAN) | R. Hamilton (SOCAN)
Recorded by Joseph "DJ Jab" Abajian at Fat Beats Studios, Brooklyn and Michael "DJ Mercilless" Pompey at Tabernacle 321, Toronto.
Mixed by A. Beck and Michael "DJ Mercilless" Pompey

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