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What Have You Not Done by The Gratitude COZA + J.J. Hairston cover art

The Gratitude COZA + J.J. Hairston - What Have You Not Done Lyrics

Artist:
The Gratitude COZA + J.J. Hairston
Album:
After This
Official Release:
27 Mar 2012

Lyrics

Verse (Repeat x3)


What have you not done for me?


Chorus (Repeat x3)


You have done everything


Hook


So we give You the praise
So we give You the praise


So we give a shout
So we give a shout


So we give You
So we give You
So we give You
So we give You a run
So we give You a run
So we give You a jump
So we give You a dance
So we give You a scream


Chorus (Repeat x2)


You have done everything for me


Verse (Repeat x3)


What have you not done for me?


Chorus (Repeat x2)


You have done everything for me


Video

Meaning & Inspiration

"What Have You Not Done" opens with a repeated rhetorical question, asking what has not been done rather than listing specific favors received. That negative framing, searching for an exception that does not exist, frames the entire song around comprehensive, exhaustive gratitude.

Its answer repeats with equal simplicity, you have done everything, treating that unqualified statement as sufficient response to the preceding question without further elaboration. A hook then translates that gratitude into a list of physical responses, shouting, running, jumping, dancing, screaming, each offered as a form of praise.

Rooted in contemporary Nigerian worship's call-and-response praise tradition, the song functions as an uninhibited, physical expression of total gratitude, its structure cycling between question and answer as a way of letting repetition itself carry the weight of thanksgiving that no single list of blessings could fully contain.

Related Scripture

  • Psalm 103:2 Instructs not forgetting all God's benefits, echoed in the song's declaration that he has done everything.
  • Psalm 150:4 Describes praising God with dancing, directly echoed in the song's list of physical praise responses.