UNANSWERED PRAYERS
Performed by Garth Brooks
Composed by Pat Alger, Larry Bastian, Garth Brooks
From "No Fences"

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Just the other night at 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 wanted for all times
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And each night I spent praying God would make her mine
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And if He'd only grant me this wish I'd wished back then
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I'd never ask for anything again

CHORUS
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Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers
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Remember when you're talking to the man upstairs
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And just because He doesn't answer doesn't mean He don't care (last time CODA)
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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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I could tell that time had changed me, in her eyes too it seemed
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We tried to talk about the old days there wasn't much we
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could recall
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I guess the Lord knows what he's doing after all

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And as she walked away and I looked at my wife and
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Then and there I thanked the good Lord for the gifts in my life CHORUS

CODA
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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