God’s Pencils

  • BACKSTORY
    • It was my birthday in 2017, less than a year after I had moved to Nashville. I woke up and felt led to go down town and walk around. I ended up at Sun's Diner and noticed to ladies walk in with what looked like very custom Luke Combs shirts. And his song Hurricane was hitting #1 and he was playing everywhere during CMA fest. So I said, those don't look like normal shirts, you must know him. They said wow, yes we do, we are friends with his mom. They ended up buying my breakfast and inviting me to come see Luke. When I rode with them to the show, we passed by the roundabout at the corner of the music city center and someone in the car said, wow what are those wooden things sticking out of the ground, they look like telephone poles. I said oh those are God's Pencils. He dropped them from heaven to show us he could get them all in the circle. And someone said Jonathan you should write a song called God's Pencils. So I sat down and did that over the coming months. I was self aware enough to know I couldn't write this one by myself because I had only been writing country for a year, I asked Will Duvall who seemed to be a wordsmith to come hop on it.
  • MUSICIANS
    • Recorded at Warner Brothers studio with Mark Lonsway.
    • Guitar - Mark Lonsway
    • Vocals - Jonathan Pierce

LYRICS

Written by Jonathan Pierce and Will Duvall

Verse 1

It’s just a dollar at a red light

Or a shoulder on a tough night

A quick call to a good ole friend

Just cause they been on your mind yeah 

 

Chorus

It don’t take much

To write a little grace and love

In someone’s story

No It ain’t that hard

to show a little kindness 

Where you are, Cause in the end

Big or small we can be

God’s pencils

 

Verse 2

Holdin the door when you don’t have to

Pay for the next car at a drive thru

Using the time off you been saving

Trade in that weeklong vacation 

For 18 hours in a church van 

cause someone’s house needs painting

 

Chorus

It don’t take much

To write a little grace and love

In someone’s story

No It ain’t that hard

to show a little kindness 

Where you are, 

Cause every act

Big or small, makes us all

God’s pencils

 

Verse 3

It’s not about me and you

That’s why we’re number two

Nothin fancy wood and lead

worn out eraser on the end

Til you‘re in his hand

 

Chorus

It don’t take much

To write a little grace and love

In someone’s story

No It ain’t that hard

to show a little kindness 

Where you are, 

Cause every act

Big or small, 

 

No It ain’t that hard

to show a little kindness 

Where you are, Cause in the end

Big or small, aren’t we all

God’s pencils?