UNANSWERED PRAYERS
GARTH BROOKS
SONGWRITERS: GARTH
BROOKS; LARRY BASTIAN & PAT ALGER
COUNTRY: u. s. a.
ÁLBUM: no fences
LABEL: capitol nashville
GENRE: country
YEAR: 1990
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962)
is an American singer and songwriter. His integration of rock and pop elements
into the country genre has earned him popularity, particularly in the United States with
success on the country music single and album charts, multi-platinum recordings
and record-breaking live performances, while also crossing over
into the mainstream pop arena.
As of 2020, Brooks is now the only artist in
music history to have released nine albums that achieved diamond status in the United States (surpassing the Beatles'
former record of six); those albums are Garth
Brooks (diamond), No Fences (17× platinum), Ropin'
the Wind (14× platinum), The Chase (diamond), In Pieces (diamond), The Hits (diamond), Sevens (diamond), Double Live (21× platinum), and The Ultimate Hits (diamond). Since 1989, Brooks has released 23 records in all, which
include 13 studio albums, two live albums, three compilation albums, three
Christmas albums and four box sets, along with 77 singles. He has won several
awards in his career, including two Grammy
Awards, 17 American
Music Awards (including "Artist of the
'90s") and the RIAA Award for best-selling solo albums artist of the century in the U.S.
Troubled by conflicts between career and
family, Brooks retired from recording and performing from 2001 until 2005. During
this time, he sold millions of albums through an exclusive distribution deal
with Walmart and sporadically released new singles. In 2005, Brooks started a
partial comeback, giving select performances and releasing two compilation
albums. In 2009, he began Garth at
Wynn, a periodic weekend concert residency at Las Vegas'
Encore
Theatre from December 2009 to January 2014.
Following the conclusion of the residency, Brooks announced his signing with Sony
Music Nashville in July 2014. In September
2014, he began his comeback world tour, with
wife and musician Trisha Yearwood,
which culminated in 2017. This was followed by his Stadium Tour, which began in 2019. His most
recent album, Fun, was released in November 2020.
Brooks is one of the world's best-selling music artists, having
sold more than 170 million records. As of 2020, according to the RIAA, he
is the best-selling solo albums artist in
the United States with 156 million domestic
units sold, ahead of Elvis
Presley, and is second only to the Beatles in total
album sales overall. Brooks was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on October 21,
2012, having been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame the year
before. He was also inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2016 with his studio musicians, The G-Men. On March 4, 2020,
Brooks received the Library
of Congress Gershwin
Prize for Popular Song. At age 58, he is the youngest
recipient of the award.
On January 20, 2021, Brooks performed "Amazing Grace"
at the inauguration of Joe Biden.
He said his performance was an opportunity "to serve" and is a
"statement of unity.
No Fences is the second studio album by the
American country music artist Garth Brooks.
It was released on August 27, 1990, and reached No. 1 on Billboard's Top
Country Albums chart. The album also reached Nº. 3
on the Billboard 200.
On the latter chart it stayed in the top 40 for 126 weeks. No Fences remains
Brooks' best-selling studio album to date with 18 million copies shipped in the
US, and is the album that made him an international star. It was his first
album issued in Europe (the original European release contained the four
singles from his U.S.
debut as bonus tracks).
Just the other night
a hometown football gameMy wife nd I ran into my old high school flame
And as I introduced them the past came back to me
And I couldn't help but think of the way things used to be
She was the one that I'd wanted for all times
And each night I'd spend prayin' that God would make her mine
And if he'd only grant me this wish I wished back then
I'd never ask for anything again
Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers
Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs
That just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers
She wasn't quite the angel that I remembered in my dreams
And I could tell that time had changed me
Inn her eyes too it seemed
We tried to talk about the old days
There wasn't much we could recall
I guess the Lord knows what he's doin' after all
And as she walked away and I looked at my wife
And then and there I thankedd the good Lord
For the gifts in my life
Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers
Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs
That just because he may not answer doesn't mean he don't care
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers
Some of God's greatest gifts are all too often unanswered...
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
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