starts with , “ I know who I am because I know who you are , Lord ”. I love that . I love that it ’ s a song to just sing over yourself and remind yourself of all that the Lord has done and how his death and resurrection , he says that it ’ s finished when He was on the cross . But what that means for us is this is only the start . This is now . You can live from this moment , live in this and live knowing that you have been called by a name and that you were made for so much more than you think . And when we wrote that song , I knew this song is special .
So , we started thinking , what if we do this song on the live project ? And then out of that , I started writing more songs and I just had a whole folder full of new songs and we just pivoted the whole thing . It was like , okay , this live thing needs to be all new songs . Let ’ s just go for new songs here . Which isn ’ t always smart when you ’ re doing a live album that you want people to sing on because you ’ re like , “ They ’ re not going to know these songs . They ’ re all new ”. And so , we took measures practically around that to get people to learn the songs before we recorded . But I love that the new song kind of pivoted the whole album and its trajectory to mostly new songs .
[ WM ] That ’ s great . The notion of that we are made for more and our identity in Christ , that ’ s a hard lesson for people to learn because most people think that their identity is what they do , what they do for a living or whatever , and that ’ s not true . One of the greatest worship albums of all time , Hungry , those were new songs . And then Brian ( Doerksen ) went back in the studio and took care of things . But those were new songs , I have to say on the song “ Made for More ”, I noticed the tom tuning on the bridge where the band breaks and it ’ s just the drummer , and I haven ’ t heard that sound since the seventies . We used to do that in the seventies where you undo a lug so that the drum dips down in pitch after it has been struck .
[ Josh ] Right . It does do that . Yes . That ’ s awesome . I wish I had anything to do with that . I mean , I heard it and thought it sounded awesome and was like , “ Yes , keep doing that ”. But that was all Joe Volk , my buddy who ’ s been playing with me since he was 14 years old and he ’ s 31 . Joe is the champion and the hero of this whole album because the room we recorded this in is just a little venue . I mean , it ’ s our church . It ’ s where I go to church here .
[ WM ] I tip my hat to Joe because I loved it . That ’ s old school . That ’ s what we used to do .
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