The Joy of Music. First four songs out now, short film, album, and concert tour to follow. 

Listen here: http://smarturl.it/BRDOSLMBL

Lyrics:
It can be hard to believe in miracles 
Hard to trust in things that are a mystery 
To forget that there is magic in the world
That there is more than just what we can touch and see
 
When you came around I heard the sound of angels singing 
 
Now for the very first time I believe I can fly 
Head to toe I'm electrified
I can feel it 
I believe it 
I am seeing 
Something supernatural 
Every time I look in your eyes 
I understand that God is alive
I can feel 
I believe it 
I am seeing yeah 
Something supernatural 
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
 
It can be hard to remember who we are 
That we are beautiful
That we are holy things 
That the pen that the wrote the moon and sun and stars
Wrote a symphony inside of you and me 
 
So when you come around I hear the sound of angels singing 
 
Now for the very first time I believe I can fly 
Head to toe I'm electrified
I can feel it 
I believe it 
I am seeing 
Something supernatural 
Every time I look in your eyes 
For I understand that God is alive
I can feel 
I believe it 
I am seeing yeah 
Something supernatural 
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
Something supernatural 
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
 
Yeah yeah oh yeah 
Every time that I look in your eyes 
I understand that God is alive
I believe it 
I can feel it 
I can see it 
Oh something supernatural 
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
Oh something supernatural 
I feel I feel I feel something supernatural 
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
Supernatural, supernatural, supernatural
 
I feel something supernatural

The Joy Of Music

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Supernatural (feat. Dave Koz)

The Joy of Music. First four songs out now, short film, album, and concert tour to follow. 

Listen now: http://smarturl.it/BRDOSLMBL

Lyrics:
Do you ever get scared
Do you ever get sad 
Did you forget the childhood dreams that you had 
Hoped it’d be better but things turned out bad and all went wrong

You don’t have to climb mountains or walk on the moon 
To fill up your heart like a great big balloon 
If you can't sleep at night just remember this tune 
and sing along 

Dream on 
Dream on 
Even when you’re afraid all your dreams may be gone
Just dream on 
Dream on
When the world says you’re crazy just tell them they’re wrong and dream on 

When I was younger I played make believe
Now when I close my eyes I just fall asleep 
If you live long enough life will make you believe that they're gone 

Dream on 
Dream on 
Even when you’re afraid all your dreams may be gone
Just dream on 
Dream on
When the world says you’re crazy just tell them they’re wrong and dream on 

Dream on 
Dream on 
To infinity and far beyond
Maybe they’ll take you fabulous places 
Maybe you’ll wake up right where you belong

Dream on 
Dream on 
Even when you’re afraid all your dreams may be gone
Just dream on 
Dream on
When the world says you’re crazy just tell them they’re wrong   
When the world says you’re crazy just tell them they’re wrong and dream on

Dream On

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “Steady Love.”

The Joy of Music. First four songs out now, short film, album, and concert tour to follow. 

Listen here: http://smarturl.it/SteadyLove

Lyrics: 

I was staring at a photograph 
Must have been fifteen years back 
Can’t believe we dressed like that
Feels like yesterday 
 
Funny how we used to all pretend
We'd never become our parent’s friends
But seasons change and summer ends
It just fades away
 
Yeah you can’t stay young forever
You can’t keep from growing up 
But when your heart gets tired of living on the run 
My God you should find you some 
Steady love 
Steady love 
By God you should find you some 
 
It’s as old ancient history 
People quit being young and keep trying to be 
None of that makes sense to me the way it did back then 
 
Cause everybody's chasing endless nights 
Open roads and neon light
Yeah you could walk a million miles
But it's footsteps in the sand 
 
Cause you can’t stay young forever yeah
You can’t keep from growing up 
But when your heart gets tired of living on the run 
My God you should find you some yeah
Steady love 
Steady love 
By God you should you find you some 
Steady love 
Steady love 
By God you should you find you some 
 
Might not always be wild and free 
But more and more that’s alright with me 
Truth is we were made to be in steady love 
Steady love 
By God you should find you some
 
Some steady love 
Oh oh oh 
Steady love 
Oh oh oh oh 
 
My God you should find you some
(Steady love) 
(Steady love) 
(By God you should find you some)
(Steady love) 
(Steady love) 
(By God you should find you some)
(Steady love) 
(Steady love) 
(By God you should find you some)

Steady Love

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “Joy.”

New album ‘The Joy Of Music’ is out now. Listen here: https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusic

Catch Ben and Joy on tour this summer! See all dates at:  https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusicLive 

Lyrics:

(Feeling good, feeling right
Every day, every night
I got joy in my life
In my life)
 
I used to wake up feeling real stressed
Now I wake up feeling real blessed
I’m in the sunshine and living my best
Life
 
There for a minute I was feeling real rough 
Until I saw that what I had was enough
I didn’t know that I could love it this much
 
But I’m
 
Feeling good, feeling right
Every day, every night
Cause I got joy in my life
In my life
 
Yeah
 
Say farewell, say goodbye
To my worries and strife 
Cause I got joy in my life
In my life 
 
Sing it with me now:
Joy
Baby, baby I got Joy 
 
When the rain falls
When the sun shines 
When the winds change 
In a hard time 
I will stand firm 
I’ll be alright 
Cause I got joy 
In my life
 
When the rain falls
When the sun shines 
When the winds change 
In a hard time 
I will stand firm 
I’ll be alright 
Cause I got joy 
In my life
 
Feeling good, feeling right
Every day, every night
Cause I got joy in my life
In my life
 
Yeah
 
Say farewell, say goodbye
To my worries and strife 
Cause I got joy in my life (in my life)
In my life (in my life)
 
Sing it with me now:
Joy
 
Baby, baby I got Joy 
Joy
 
I got joy 
Joy
 
Outro: 
 
And that, my friends, is The Joy of Music. Thanks so much for listening. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed making it. Which was a lot. 
 
There’s a list of people I’d like to thank coming up. If you could stick around for that, stick around. If you’ve got somewhere to be, no sweat, just know that I really appreciate you tuning in and making this album a small part of your life. 
 
I’d like to thank John Fields for being my partner in crime. For his patience as I changed things a decibel at a time again and again, only to go back to what we had originally. Thanks John. You’re the best. 
 
To my wife Hillary, for your support as I came out here almost every day for a year and a half to chase down this record. So glad I get to do life with you, and you’re the best. 
To my daughter Jane, for making me excited to wake up every morning to see what you’re gonna say and do. 
 
To my twins, Roy and Robert, for being just an absolute handful, but for being pretty sweet most of the time. 
 
I wanna thank Snoop Dogg, which is a sentence I never thought I’d say, for rapping on “Sunday,” and for being cool about it when I edited out your reference to National Blunt Day. 
 
Thanks to Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes for making my hipster musician friends think I’m just a little bit cooler than I am. 
 
To Kenny G for cred with my dad. 
 
And to Dave Koz for ripping what is potentially the best saxophone solo I’ve ever heard in my life on “Supernatural.” 
 
Thanks to all the other writers, players, just collaborators in general who lended your talents to the record. It is better because of it, and I am grateful to work with you. 
 
Well guys, we did it. Until I see you next time, this is Ben Rector, signing off, telling you to please be joyful.

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “Cliches” featuring Taylor Goldsmith. 

New album ‘The Joy Of Music’ is out now. Listen here: https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusic

Catch Ben and Joy on tour this summer! See all dates at:  https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusicLive 

Lyrics:

They say that opposites attract
Don’t know it for a fact
I’m here to tell you it’s the truth
 
Cause you were open, I was closed
Diametrically opposed
I guess we’re the livin’ proof
 
Don’t know who writes all these down
Mulls them over, thinks ‘em out
All the wisdom that they bring
Cause I used to think that they were trite
It turns out they’re mostly right
There’s a reason they’re a thing
 
Say these adages like warnings
If they turn out to be true
Cause the more of life I’m livin’ next to you
These days
Cliches
 
If you’re the apple, I’m the tree
But don’t fall too close to me
You’re already twice the human that I’ll ever be
They say grown men shouldn’t cry
But I’ve had somethin’ in my eye 
Since you turned us two to three
 
The more and more I’m learnin’
These aren’t exceptions, they’re the rule
That the more of life I’m livin’ next to you
These days
Are cliches
 
Cliches
 
We’ve all heard that time can fly
In the blinking of an eye
This one feels a bit too real
 
And if all good things come to an end
And I can’t take this ride again
I will tell you how I feel
 
You will hear me in the ocean
You will see me in the moon
 
But don’t mistake these messages to you
 
For cliches
 
Cliches

Cliches (feat. Taylor Goldsmith)

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “We Will Never Be This Young Again.”

New album ‘The Joy Of Music’ is out now. Listen here: https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusic

Catch Ben and Joy on tour this summer! See all dates at:  https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusicLive 

Lyrics:

I spoke to myself last night in a dream
I was about twenty-one
It was the craziest thing
And I went to a party with all of my friends
And it brought tears to my eyes
To see us together again
 
And I tried to tell them the way that things change
They wouldn’t listen to me
They all started walking away
So I sung them a song of the beauty of youth
And I brought the rhythmic back in and I told them the truth
 
I couldn’t tell you where this road will lead
If it winds or how it ends
But this is as alive as we will ever be
Cause we will never be this young again
 
So
 
Here’s to livin’ while we’re alive
Don’t slow down, don’t close your eyes
Just raise your glass and breathe it in
Cause we will never be this young again
 
(Oh yeah yeah)
(Never be this young again)
 
I woke up in my room and I shot out of bed
And there was a vision of me at 75 in my head
He smiled and said, “Boy you’re still in your youth” 
Then he sat down and played me this song
Same as I’m singin’ to you
 
I couldn’t tell you where this road will lead
If it winds or how it ends
But this is alive as we will ever be
We will never be this young again
 
So
 
Here’s to livin’ while we’re alive
Don’t slow down, don’t close your eyes
Just raise your glass and breathe it in
Cause we will never be this young again
 
Ride the night like a roller coaster
Like the nights back in Oklahoma
Just a sip of the sweet cherry cola
To the stars
Supernova
This is young as we’ll ever be
So let’s be young and free
Come make a memory
 
Oh yeah
 
I say everybody gather round
We’re goin’ out tonight
Gonna paint the town
And if we get too deep
We can reel it in
Because we will never be this young again
 
We will never be, never be this young again
 
(Never be, never be, never be this young again)

We Will Never Be This Young Again

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “Hanging Out” featuring Kenny G. 

New album ‘The Joy Of Music’ is out now. Listen here: https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusic

Catch Ben and Joy on tour this summer! See all dates at:  https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusicLive 

Lyrics:

Feels like everyone I know is suddenly a TV show 
Living in some gossip magazine 
Lately I’ve tried but I can’t find it in my heart to chase those lights 
Does that mean something’s wrong with me? 
 
Cause I’ve been kinda hanging out 
Living some life you don't write songs about 
Yeah took a break from moving mountains  
Yeah I’m finally slowing down some 
No moving, no shaking 
Been fine with just hanging out 
 
Lately I’ve been going for runs 
And watching my daughter eat her lunch
Listening through the Beatles catalogue 
What does it mean to catch your dreams if you can’t sit alone 
And think without your thoughts all going wrong 
 
So I’ve been kinda hanging out 
Living some life you don’t write songs about 
Like you remember in that story how 
Jules Verne went 20K leagues down
That’s how low I’ve been laying 
Just kinda been hanging out 
I've been kinda hanging out 
Just been kinda
Just been kinda hanging out 
Oooh I’ve been kinda hanging out 
 
I just realized I’ve spent my whole life
Thinking I was nothing if I wasn’t doing everything just right
For the first time since I’ve been a kid 
When I close my eyes
I can sleep at night 
 
I’ve been kinda hanging out 
Got new ideas about the good life now 
Yeah took a break from moving mountains
Yeah I’m finally slowing down some 
No moving no shaking 
Just kinda been hanging 
No moving no shaking 
Been fine with just hanging out

Hanging Out (feat. Kenny G)

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “Thank You.”

New album ‘The Joy Of Music’ is out now. Listen here: https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusic

Catch Ben and Joy on tour this summer! See all dates at:  https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusicLive 

Lyrics:

Thanks for the sunrise
Thanks for the night sky
Thanks for the deepest blue
In my daughter's eyes
And thanks for the weekend
Thanks for a good friend
Thanks for “In the High Life Again”
Makes me feel alive
 
It’s been too long since we sat down and talked this way
But life is hard sometimes I don’t know what to say
So thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Oooh for you have been good to me (you have been good)
You have been good (have been good)
Oh you have been good to me (you have been good)
You are always good
 
I miss how the world seemed
Back when I was nineteen
Or I just miss havin’ things
All figured out
Cause I got these doubts and
I got these questions
They got me wonderin’
I bet you’ll sort it out
 
It’s been too long since we’ve sat down and talked this way
But life is hard sometimes I don’t know what to say
There are times when it just doesn’t make no sense
But you have been good to me, you have been good to me
Time and again
 
So thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Wooah for you have been good to me
You have been good
For you have been good to me
You have been good
Singin,’ thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Oooh for you have been good to me (you have been good)
You have been good (you have been good)
Oh you have been good to me (you have been good)
You are always good
 
Come on sing it out, sing it loud
Sing it together
Come on sing it out, sing it loud
So we can remember
Come on sing it out, sing it loud
So we can remember
So I can remember
So I can remember
Come on sing it out, sing it loud
Sing it together
Come on sing it out, sing it loud
So we can remember
Come on sing it out, sing it loud
So we can remember
So I can remember
So I can remember
 
Thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Wooah for you have been good to me 
You have been good
For you have been good to me
You have been good
 
We’re singin’, thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Thank you (thank you)
Oooh for you have been good to me (you have been good)
You have been good (you have been good)
For you have been good to me (you have been good)
You are always good

Thank You

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “Heroes.”

New album ‘The Joy Of Music’ is out now. Listen here: https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusic

Catch Ben and Joy on tour this summer! See all dates at:  https://smarturl.it/TheJoyOfMusicLive 

Lyrics:

I miss when I had superpowers
My imagination was my friend and it ran wild and free
I could waste a couple hours
Without a worry in the world staring at stars out on my trampoline, yeah 
 
I miss when Andy McAuthur was the fastest kid there was and kid there was ever gonna be 
Ken Griffey Jr. was a giant before parents got divorced and I learned that there was gravity 
 
I miss my old heroes
I had to give them all away 
I miss my old heroes yeah yeah
God I wish they could’ve stayed
Cause it turns out that the hardest part of growing up's not getting old
It's learning how the real world goes
I miss my old
I miss my old 
 
I miss my Bible study leader
Had all the answers for living in the big bad world 
Don’t know if he still talks to Jesus 
But his wife's remarried now and I think he sells garage doors  
 
I miss when I thought chasing dreams was 
Holy magic behind curtains in a sacred place
Before it was managers and lawyers 
Who colored up and cashed them out 
For vacation homes in coastal states 
 
I miss my old heroes
I had to give them all away 
I miss my old heroes yeah yeah 
God I wish they could’ve stayed
Cause it turns out that the hardest part of growing up’s not getting old
It's learning how the real world goes
I miss my old
I miss my old 
I miss my old heroes
 
I miss my old heroes
 
I miss back when the world was small and we had all the answers
I miss how it was when we were young 
I miss back before I understood all the ways that life would break your heart 
Before I knew that's what they called growing up 
 
I miss my old heroes
I had to give them all away 
I miss my old heroes yeah yeah 
God I wish they could’ve stayed
Cause it turns out that the hardest part of growing up’s not just getting old
It's learning how the real world goes
I miss my old
I miss my old 
I miss my old heroes 
I miss my old heroes

Heroes

Listen to the official audio for Ben Rector’s song “What Makes A Man” with Thomas Rhett.

“I immediately thought of Thomas Rhett when ‘What Makes A Man’ was finished. A big part of this record for me was wanting to do things that were exciting and enjoyable, and having Thomas on this song felt like both.

I’m honored he agreed to sing on it and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Stay tuned for a deluxe version of ‘The Joy of Music’ (including this song), later this year.”

Lyrics:

Well my father 
He'll never see him name in lights 
Worked at a desk his whole damn life
Didn’t chase his dream gave himself 
So me and my sisters would be all right 

Sometimes I wonder
What they'll say of me when I am gone 
When my daughter’s living on and
Will she care if strangers thought that I was famous
Or just that I was never home

Is it the things you’ve done the places that you've been 
Chasing down some dream you’ve been imagining
Or is it making peace with who you are and where you stand 
I’m trying to find what makes a man 
Woah oh what makes a man 

If I'm honest 
I am plagued by the fear that I am not enough 
So I work hard to measure up 
Spent a million miles under mountains high
And felt the same when I was done

Is it the things you’ve done the places that you've been 
Chasing down some dream you’ve been imagining
Or is it making peace with who you are and where you stand 
I’m trying to find what makes a man 

Is it power 
Is it fame
Is it money 
Is it just a game 
Is it always wanting more 
Or is it finding peace in what you had all along 

Is it the things you’ve done the places that you've been 
Chasing down some dream you’ve been imagining
Or is it making peace with who you are and where you stand 
I'm trying to find what makes a man 

I've been trying to find 
What makes a man 
I've been trying to find 
What makes a man 

What makes a man 
I've been trying to find 
What makes a man

What Makes A Man

What Makes A Man with Thomas Rhett

Listen to Ben Rector's song "Wonderful World."

Written by: Ben Rector, Jordy Searcy, Andrew Tufano
Produced by: Ben Rector, Andrew Tufano
Mixing Engineer: Tom Lord-Alge
Resonator Guitar, Vocals: Ben Rector
Acoustic Guitar, Banjo, Electric Guitar, Bass, Piano, Keyboards, Drums, Backing Vocals: Andrew Tufano
Percussion, Piano: Aaron Sterling
Drums: Trey Schafer

Lyrics:
I’ve seen the northern lights  
The British countryside 
Every single southern college town 
Sat with important men  
And felt like one of them 
Stood at Cypress in between the clouds 
Thought I'd seen all there is to see 

Spent all this time chasing my dreams 
But none of them came true till you were here with me  
It’s a wonderful world filled with fabulous things  
I'd trade it all away to have you here with me  
It’s a wonderful world  
It’s a wonderful world  

I’ve taken medicine 
I bought an ottoman  
I got a bigger house with bigger trees  
I'm getting better at not blaming mom and dad
I'm trying to figure out what it all means  
I thought that I'd done all the right things  

I spent all this time building a dream  
But none of it came true till you were here with me  
It’s a wonderful world filled with fabulous things 
I'd trade it all away to have you here with me  
It's a wonderful world   
It's a wonderful world   
It's a wonderful world   
It's a wonderful world   

I spent all this time chasing a dream  
But none of it was true until you were here with me 
It’s a wonderful world filled with fabulous things 
I'd trade them all away to have you here with me  

I'd trade them all away to have you here with me

Wonderful World

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