Glenn Chugg - Small Wins

Meaning: A secular gospel call-and-response — a room naming the ordinary daily victories nobody claps for, then landing on the idea that peace, not happiness, is what those small choices are quietly building toward. Technical: Gospel/soul, no religious vocabulary. Warm upright piano and Hammond organ throughout, handclaps on 2 and 4 from Verse 2 onward, bass entering with the first chorus. Congregation responses sit slightly behind the beat, relaxed and human rather than a polished backing stack. Bridge drops to piano and lead voice only for the "peace doesn't shout" section. Final chorus erupts with full choir, organ, bass, and claps together. Major-key and warm throughout — no minor turn anywhere in the song. Read: The biggest emotional gap the catalogue had — genuine gospel/soul, and the first fully joyful song with no shadow in it at all, start to finish. The preacher/congregation shape does real work: the congregation isn't affirming faith, it's supplying the recognition the chorus says the world doesn't give ("nobody's clapping but I know what it cost" — then the song builds a room that claps anyway). The bridge drops to piano and voice to deliver the catalogue's clearest stated thesis — "happy comes and goes, that's what happy does... peace doesn't shout, it just stays where it was" — without curdling into a lecture, because it's framed as something found, not preached.