Shane Profitt - Good Luck And God
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00:00I gotta give y'all another little story time. So, like I said, seven months ago I was working for the city back home in Columbia, Tennessee, and I was playing gigs on the weekend. Every chance I'd get, I'd write every chance I got, and I had a little bar gig this particular weekend, and nowhere in my hometown sells guitar strings because it's really small.
00:28And everybody just sells drugs, and that's pretty much it. Nobody sells guitar strings. So, I had to drive about 45 minutes to get elixirs, which is the kind of strings I like. And I brought this pretty girl with me, and I told her, I said, honey, I ain't gonna starve you. What do you want to eat?
00:50And, you know, we're 45 minutes from home. I ain't gonna starve you. She said, I want sushi. I said, oh, no. My stomach started turning. I like catching them, don't get me wrong, but I just don't like eating them fresh out of the water like that.
01:04You slap some batter and oil on them, then we're talking.
01:07Luckily, I was a gentleman that night, and we went to eat sushi, and when we got there, Mr. Chris Jansen was walking across the parking lot. He held the door for us as we walked in.
01:22So, I ended up introducing myself to him that night, and I walked up to his table, and I said, hey, you know, I'm a huge fan. Let me start by saying, I'm a songwriter, and I work for the city back in Columbia, and it would mean the absolute world to me if you would listen to some of my music.
01:44And he just kind of looked at me for a split second, and his wife, Kelly, spoke up. She said, well, I'm his manager, and I'm also a music publisher. Is that a receipt you have in your hand I could write my email down on? You could send me some songs.
01:57I said, yes, ma'am, it is. And he cut his eyes up at me, and he said, did you just say yes, ma'am? And I said, yes, sir, I did. And he said, I like that. Pull up a chair.
02:06So, we sat there at that sushi restaurant and talked for over an hour that night, and we became really good friends after that. And two weeks after that, he signed me to my very first publishing deal, all because we went to a sushi restaurant.
02:23Now, where I come from in Columbia, you get up, you go to work, and you come home every night. You work your 40, 50, sometimes 60-hour weeks if you have to, and that's the life you live.
02:37And publishing deals and record deals especially just don't happen for, you know, it's just not something you see every day.
02:45And people back home kept telling me how lucky I was running into Chris that night.
02:52And I thought about it, and I said, yeah, I think some of it is luck, but I think even more of it's God.
02:58So, when I got my publishing deal finalized, this is the very first song I ever wrote.
03:04The publishing company set me up with a couple of writers, and I walked in, and I had this idea called Good Luck and God,
03:11because people kept telling me how lucky I was, but I said it was God.
03:15And in the first verse of this, you'll hear, after two years of trying, she broke down crying because she's finally going to be a mom.
03:24I would like to point out that on the way down here to Tampa, I found out that I'm going to be an uncle to a little boy.
03:40So, here's Good Luck and God. I really hope you all like it.
03:45A high school kid puts a truck in a ditch and walks away without a scratch.
04:02A man says a little prayer, throws his money out there, and leaves Vegas with a thousand bucks cash.
04:10After two years of trying, she broke down crying because she's finally going to be a mom.
04:17Some call it good luck, but I call it God, because one is a gamble, one is for certain, one comes and goes while the other keeps working.
04:31One you can lean on hard times or not.
04:35One will get you to heaven, while the other one ain't got a shot.
04:40And that's the difference in good luck in God.
04:44So some of y'all may be asking yourself
04:54Shane, what happened to that girl from that sushi restaurant?
04:58And I am too
04:59So I figured I'd throw it in this second verse
05:08The girl I fell for, man, she walked out the door
05:15And she was gone in two seconds flat
05:18Down and out on faith, man, I prayed and I prayed
05:22But I knew the night she came back
05:25That one is a gamble, one is for certain
05:29One comes and goes while the other keeps working
05:33One you could lean on, hard times or not
05:37One will get you to heaven while the other one ain't got a shout
05:42And that's the difference in good luck and God
05:47I've leaned a lot on them both
06:03But looking back, man, it ain't even close
06:13Cause one is a gamble, one is for certain
06:17One comes and goes while the other keeps working
06:21One you could lean on, hard times or not
06:25One will get you to heaven while the other one ain't got a shout
06:30And that's the difference in good luck and God
06:35Yeah, that's the difference in good luck and God
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