ROOM TO BREATHE
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The songs from
ROOM TO BREATHE
1. IF I WERE - I wrote
this song after I finished reading Screwtape Letters
by C.S. Lewis. That book
helped me realize that the devil chooses to shop at the Gap
like the rest of us.
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2. THE SECRET
- After hearing a bunch of
guys tell their stories at a retreat, I realized that we
all had something in common. Each of our lives showed a
pattern of trying to keep secrets and then of those secrets
slowly making life much worse.
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3. BEGINNING OF THE
END - I wrote this
song with Sandra McCracken. I think we were originally
trying to write for her (then) new record. It just kind of
came out of the blue and didn’t really make sense to me
until a couple of years later.
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4. ROBERT’S LIKE A
TRAIN - I have always
had a fascination with Robert Downey Jr.. He is such a
great actor but served as the classic tragic picture of
addiction for so long. I am glad he is back on the wagon.
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5. BURNING
BUSHES - Sometimes I
look in the wrong places to find the answers to my prayers.
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6. GREEN HILLS
MALL - This mall in
Nashville is one of the snobbiest I have ever been to. I
don’t like malls in general, so this one really sends me
over the edge.
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7. FREEDOM
- Sometimes the things we
think will give us freedom only end up tying us down. At
the same time, with a change in perspective, we can find
freedom in circumstances we thought would be restrictive.
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8. HAND IT DOWN
- I wrote this with my friend
Brandon Kinney. I was still in the glow of being a new
father and always loved songs about passing things down.
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9. BROKEN
PLACES - At a men’s
retreat from our church, I remember hearing Al Andrews use
this Ernest Hemingway quote: “The world breaks everyone and
afterward many are strong in the broken places.”
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10. MEMORY OF
YOU - This is one of
my favorite songs I have written because I had no direction
for it when I sat down to write it. I just started with the
first line and then imagined what happened line by line and
was done in a matter of minutes. The story just appeared
out of nowhere.
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11. HOLY FLAKES
- This song is about many
things. I must say it is most definitely NOT about the
Catholic Church. That is just a disguise. I won’t go in to
how it is really about popular worship music. I will say
that in Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis book he talks about how it is dangerous
to label things “Christian” and “Non-Christian” because
Christians might just digest the things labeled Christian
even if there is no truth in them - and might reject things
labeled Non-Christian even if they have truth that we need.
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12. SILENT
MOVIE - Jonathan Noel
talked to me about helping him write the title song for a
record he wanted to call Silent Movie. He had this great
instrumental track that he was thinking of using by itself
for the title track. I did my best to convince him to put
words in it. His recording of this song is great by the
way.
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13. GIVE ME
GRACE - At some point
I stopped asking God to take away the things that made me
fall. Instead, I just wanted the strength to stop beating
myself up and to get up and walk again.
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14. THEY WERE
RIGHT - Before you
have your first child, everyone tells you what it is going
to be like. Once you have the baby, you discover that they
were not lying.
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15. NEVER LET ME
DOWN - I wrote this
song to use as an offertory at my church. It was kind of a
response to the way I felt I was always letting myself
down.
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