Have Plenty

Written by Timothy Welbeck

Biblical References: Psalm 23, 31:1, 37:1-5, 73; 119:36; Matthew 6:25-34; Philippians 3:7-9; 4:5-13; I Timothy 6:6-8; Hebrews 13:5; James 5:1-8


Verse 1
It would seem the life we most want is the one we don’t live/We throw fits jonesing to keep up with the Jones/And shape our lives to live the way the Jones live/We want the Jones’ home, we want the Jones’ kids/We don’t know who a Jones is/Yet we cleave to the hope that what’s theirs is ours for us to go get/And when we go get, all of the things the Jones get/It will be the very day that all of our goals end/But there is no end to this most embarrassing pursuit/When I am only doing better when I’m doing better than you/We forgot it’s our possessions that are weighing us down/They leave a burden on our shoulders and keep our feet on the ground/But we lay our covetous dreams in nests, knowing in fact/They hatch, then they go and take an orbital path/Fall and crash then begin eluding our grasp/We may get what we reached for, but we lose what we had/What do you have

Hook
We have what we don’t want/We want what we don’t have/With you I have everything I need/I have plenty, I have plenty (repeat)

Verse 2
I’m told our days are often full, but are rarely fulfilling/Rarely are thrilling, and we can say that barely we’re living/Running endlessly to stack all of our cares to the ceiling/We’re obsessed with what cherish and cherish what we are getting/Forgetting none of it was with us there in the beginning/And forgetting none of it will be with us there in the ending/We brought nothing into this world, we take so much from it/It is ours for a moment, then the generation coming/But we pass pieces of earth, believing the grass is greener/Not glad for what we have, not even glad for we were/Imprisoned in picket fences, we never see and believe/We risk what’s most important for the more fleeting of things/Knowing the richest is the one who has the need of the least/If I have need of anything, I have need of the King/Even when what I want isn’t even within my reach/It is with Him I have everything that I need/I have plenty

Hook
We have what we don’t want/We want what we don’t have/With you I have everything I need/I have plenty, I have plenty (repeat)

Outro
With you I have everything that I need/You are the air I breathe, the life I lead/I love you, I love you/I need you, I thank you/For everything You’ve done for me/Lord I give You everything.


To read the concept behind "Have Plenty," please visit: http://thepaintedone.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/rhyme-and-reason/