{"id":7411,"date":"2024-06-11T12:51:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/?p=7411"},"modified":"2024-06-19T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T14:05:59","slug":"i-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/i-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"I Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Kirk Franklin<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Smile_YouthChoirRecordng_10-21-18.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I Smile &#8211; All Parts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Smile-Soprano.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I Smile &#8211; Soprano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Smile-MezzoSoprano.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I Smile &#8211; Mezzo Ending<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Smile-Alto-Ending.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I Smile &#8211; Alto Ending<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/I-Smile-Kirk-Franklin-C-Major.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1930\">I Smile<\/a>&#8211; Sheet Music<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/I-Smile-Kirk-Franklin-Lyrics.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"1928\">I Smile<\/a> &#8211; Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ISmile-Lyrics-Pg1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ISmile-Lyrics-Pg1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7414\" style=\"width:623px;height:757px\" width=\"623\" height=\"757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ISmile-Lyrics-Pg1.jpg 506w, https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ISmile-Lyrics-Pg1-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ISmile-Lyrics-Pg2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ISmile-Lyrics-Pg2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7415\" style=\"width:650px;height:845px\" width=\"650\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ISmile-Lyrics-Pg2.jpg 508w, https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ISmile-Lyrics-Pg2-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I Smile &#8211; Kirk Franklin<\/strong><br><strong>I dedicate this song to recession, depression and unemployment.\u00a0 This song&#8217;s for you:<\/strong><br><strong>Today&#8217;s a new day, but there is no sunshine. Nothing but clouds, and it&#8217;s dark in my heart and it feels like a cold night.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s a new day, where are my blue skies.\u00a0 Where is the love and the joy that you promised me?\u00a0 Tell me it&#8217;s alright.\u00a0 I almost gave up, but a power that I can&#8217;t explain fell from heaven like a shower.\u00a0 I smile, even though I hurt see I smile<\/strong>.  <strong>I know God is working so I smile even though I&#8217;ve been here for a while I smile, smile.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so hard to look up when you been down.\u00a0 Sure would hate to see you give up now.\u00a0 You look so much better when you smile, so smile.<\/strong>  [<strong>REPEAT<\/strong>]<br><strong>Smile for me.\u00a0 Can you just smile for me? Smile for me.\u00a0 Can you just smile for me. Oh oh oh you look so much better when you (x5).\u00a0 Smile!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Franklin I Smile&#8211; Sheet Music I Smile &#8211; Lyrics I Smile &#8211; Kirk FranklinI dedicate this song to recession, depression and unemployment.\u00a0 This song&#8217;s for you:Today&#8217;s a new day, but there is no sunshine. Nothing but clouds, and it&#8217;s dark in my heart and it feels like a cold night.\u00a0 Today&#8217;s a new day, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/i-smile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Smile&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choir-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7music7.com\/choir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}