WE GOT TODAY
WE GOT TODAY
Kai Rex Klok
[INTRO — WARM / MORNING]
Open the curtains.
Yeah.
Let the room get bright.
We spent enough time waiting for our lives.
We got today.
[VERSE 1]
Coffee on the counter, sun across the floor, somebody I ain’t talked to knocking at the door.
Phone down on the table, music playing low, ain’t nobody filming— ain’t nobody gotta know.
Neighbor needs a hand, we’ll be there by ten. Mama made too much, so we’re eating there again.
Kid out in the driveway, drawing planets out in chalk.
I forgot how good it feels when nobody checks the clock.
[PRE-CHORUS]
We ain’t gotta fix forever before the sun goes down.
We can put one chair beside another.
We can start right now.
[HOOK]
WE GOT TODAY.
WE GOT TODAY.
PUT YOUR SHOES ON, COME MY WAY.
BRING YOUR HEART, DON’T BRING A THING.
WE GOT FOOD. WE GOT SONGS TO SING.
LET THE WHOLE WORLD RUN ITS RACE.
WE’RE GONNA LIVE AT HUMAN PACE.
AIN’T GOTTA WAIT ’TIL LIFE FEELS SAFE.
WE GOT LOVE.
WE GOT BREATH.
WE GOT TODAY.
[POST-HOOK]
Today, today.
Don’t give it away.
Today, today.
We got today.
[VERSE 2]
Plant something useless just to watch it grow.
Learn the name of every bird that lands outside your home.
Take the long way back. Let the old man talk.
Let your little girl decide which way you’re gonna walk.
Cook enough for seven when you’re only feeding four.
Somebody always needs a plate. That’s what the extra’s for.
Tell your friend you miss him before somebody says goodbye.
We got so damn good at surviving—
let’s get good at being alive.
[PRE-CHORUS]
We ain’t gotta know what happens twenty years from now.
There’s a hand that needs your hand tonight.
There’s a life happening now.
[HOOK]
WE GOT TODAY.
WE GOT TODAY.
PUT YOUR SHOES ON, COME MY WAY.
BRING YOUR HEART, DON’T BRING A THING.
WE GOT FOOD. WE GOT SONGS TO SING.
LET THE WHOLE WORLD RUN ITS RACE.
WE’RE GONNA LIVE AT HUMAN PACE.
AIN’T GOTTA WAIT ’TIL LIFE FEELS SAFE.
WE GOT LOVE.
WE GOT BREATH.
WE GOT TODAY.
[VERSE 3 — DEEPER]
I used to think tomorrow needed everything from me.
Every hour had a purpose. Every breath owed history.
Thought I’d build a road so wide everybody could be free.
Then I turned around and wondered—
where the hell’d everybody leave?
So I’m still building.
I ain’t laying down the flame.
But I finally know the reason that I ever took the pain.
It wasn’t so we’d work forever.
Wasn’t numbers on a page.
It was so a human being could have ownership of days.
Time to raise a family.
Time to fall stupid in love.
Time to sit beside the water and decide that it’s enough.
Time to know a turtle by the markings on its shell.
Time to waste an afternoon
and have absolutely nothing you need to sell.
[BRIDGE — STRIP EVERYTHING]
So come over.
Yeah, tonight.
No occasion.
No big night.
Bring the babies.
Bring your mom.
Bring that friend who’s been gone too long.
Burn the chicken.
Stay too late.
Tell that story anyway.
Laugh so hard somebody cries.
Leave your phone somewhere inside.
Tomorrow—
we’ll meet tomorrow when it comes.
But tonight—
look around.
Everybody’s here.
Everybody’s here.
[BREAK — CROWD / A CAPPELLA]
We got today.
We got today.
Nobody gets to take it away.
We got today.
We got today.
If you’re still breathing—
come our way.
[FINAL HOOK — JOYOUS]
WE GOT TODAY!
WE GOT TODAY!
OPEN THE WINDOWS!
MAKE SOME SPACE!
CALL YOUR PEOPLE!
SAY THEIR NAMES!
PUT SOME LOVE BACK IN THIS PLACE!
LET THE WHOLE WORLD RUN ITS RACE!
WE’RE GONNA LIVE AT HUMAN PACE!
AIN’T GOTTA WAIT FOR SOME BETTER DAY!
WE GOT HANDS!
WE GOT HEARTS!
WE GOT TODAY!
WE GOT MORNING!
WE GOT NIGHT!
WE GOT ONE ANOTHER STANDING RIGHT OUTSIDE!
NO MORE WAITING FOR OUR LIVES TO CHANGE!
WE GOT LOVE!
WE GOT BREATH!
WE GOT TODAY!
[OUTRO — SAME WORLD AS “COME BACK ALIVE”]
Hey—
you staying for dinner?
…
Good.
Pull up a chair.