Worship Musician Magazine September 2020 | Page 14

and Dave for quite some time and I barely knew
Charles, but I’ve known Hillary and Dave’s heart
for the Lord and I thought that it would be so
special and powerful. I sent them a couple
songs, and they said it would be amazing if
we wrote one together. So, we get in a room
together for the first time, I didn’t know how
that would go, and Charles, he just got real
really quick, really vulnerable. He said, “When
I think about faith, for so many years faith was
about Sunday school stories and the stories
I’d hear in church, and Bible stories, and
nothing more than that. In the last few years
I’ve been in a really tough place in my life, and
I’ve really found God to become personal to
me in a special way”, and he said, “I think a
lot of people probably feel the same way.” That
moment when God becomes something more
than just words on a page, something that is
really a personal relationship that begins. And
the words just start coming,
“Some people think You're distant, just some
words on a page
That You're nothing more than fables handed
down along the way
But I've seen You part the waters when no one
else could pull me from the deep
That's who You are to me”
That is the song, I love it and I think this song
is very unique on this record because it really
speaks to God in a very personal way of who
God is to us. It’s one of the most powerful
songs on the record and it’s just been incredible
to hear it on the radio and to hear us singing
it together. Their voices are so amazing, and
Tin Roof
writing with them was a real pleasure and a
privilege.
[WM] I’m a firm believer that not all worship
songs need to be “congregational” in nature.
There is a place for certain songs to be “sung
over” a church gathering, and not necessarily
“sung with” them. Your song, “Tin Roof”, fits
the former category to me. Can you tell us
about this magnificent recording?
[Chris] This is Blessing, the artists name is
Blessing and he is from Nigeria. He is blind,
and there is a reason this song ends the
record, because I feel like it’s probably the most
special song on the record to me. I heard of
this song two years ago, and I’d been tracking
with Blessing a little bit, and his music. As I was
thinking about how to complete this record,
there was one day out of this quarantine time
and it just hit me and I remembered this song.
I thought that this would be an incredible song
14 September 2020
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