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Mahalia

Grateful

Release date: 16th November 2023

From Ily - EP
Track 2
3:06
R&B/SoulMusic
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About This Track

Mahalia strips back the usual courtship hesitation on 'Grateful', a song built on direct proposition. She wants to show her cards, lay them down, wait at the table. No labels, no hiding, no performance of reluctance. The song moves through desire with a kind of patient clarity: you make my heart go boom, the way that you lay, the way that you play. It's frank without being crude, intimate without being coy. The production sits light around her voice, letting the melody breathe. There's a steadiness to the chorus that mirrors the emotional logic of the thing itself: if you show me love, I will be every kind of faithful. Gratitude, in Mahalia's hands, becomes an act of commitment, not an afterthought. The repetition of "very, very grateful" lands less as hyperbole than as a kind of vow, each iteration a small promise kept.

"Grateful" is a single by Mahalia, from the album Ily - EP, released 16th November 2023. The track is 3:06 long. It's filed under R&B/Soul. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 14 articles about Mahalia.

About the Artist

Mahalia

Mahalia

Lyrics

Grateful

Yeah
Sorry I missed your call (Hold me like that)
I'm just busy right now
I don't wanna see you cry

You
You make my heart go boom
Oh, baby, it's that look in your eyes that makes you the prize
I wish we were together, right now
It's true, you make my body feel loose
Oh, baby, it's the way that you lay, the way that you play
I'm praying for forever, as well as now

I don't want to hide, I don't want to hide
I don't want to shy from you, no
I don't want to lie, I don't want to lie
And say that I don't want you

So if you could lay your cards right down
I am waiting at the table
If you could show me love somehow
We don't need to have a label
You know that I will love you down
I will be every kind of faithful
If you could show me all the way around
I will be very, very grateful
Very, very grateful

Babe, you make my worries fly away
I'm thinking it's the way that we rotate
That makes me feel okay
So you should come around
Today, let me show you somewhere safe
Oh, baby you can stop tryna locate
'Cause we find a soulmate in each other
And now we're bound

I don't want to hide, I don't want to hide
I don't want to shy from you, no
I don't want to lie, I don't want to lie
And say that I don't need you

So if you could lay your cards right down
I am waiting at the table
If you could show me love somehow
We don't need to have a label
You know that I will love you down
I will be every kind of faithful
If you could show me all the way around
I will be very, very grateful
Very, very grateful, yeah

Oh, hold me like that
Like that
Grateful
Very, very grateful
Very, very hard
Very, very loving
Very, very grateful

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Track details

From Ily - EP

3:062023Single
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Ily - EP
Ily - EP
Mahalia
16th November 2023
Track number
2
Release year
2023
  1. 1Bag of You
    3:17
  2. 2Grateful
    3:06
  3. 3November (feat. Stormzy)
    3:34
  4. 4Good Company (feat. Terrace Martin)
    5:08

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Mahalia
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    Mahalia, Maths Time Joy
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    Maths Time Joy
    Drums
    Maths Time Joy
    Guitar
    Maths Time Joy
    Keyboards
    Maths Time Joy
    Vocals
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