The Rabbit Room

The singer/songwriter in me, who is more inclined to sing of poignancy than out and out joy, felt a little nervous about putting such a straight-up pop song on the record. But the fact my kids consider it their favorite of all the songs their dad has recorded gives me some much needed perspective 🙂  I’m also grateful to have had such a life-affirming song to add to the mix of songs about fear and shame. I think it brings a buoyancy to the album and the record as a whole would feel very different without it.

Check out the song diary Doug McKelvey filmed for the song–and watch through to the end for the payoff:

Good To Be Alive
(Jason Gray / Jason Ingram / Brandon Heath)

Hold on
Is this really the life I am living?
Cause I don’t feel like I deserve it
Every day that I wake and every breath that I take you’ve given
Right here, right now
While the sun is shining down

I wanna live like there’s no tomorrow
Love like I’m on borrowed time
It’s good to be alive

Hold on
If the life that we’ve been given
Is made beautiful in the living
And the joy that I get brings joy to the heart of the giver
Then right here, right now
This is the song I’m singing out

I wanna live like there’s no tomorrow
Love like I’m on borrowed time
It’s good to be alive

I won’t take it for granted
I won’t waste another second
All I want is to give you
A life well lived to say, “thank you”