Then, almost immediately, I just kind of sang [WM] What is one of your favorite songs that I feel like it’s important that we, as songwriters,
back a version of what the chorus is now, which really took you the longest to write? are doing stuff like that. We need to make
we went on to refine a little bit. It happened so
sure the songs say something. I think the
quick… like within ten minutes! He just sat [Chris] Ooo, gosh, I mean there’s been a lot of songs need to say something as opposed to
down and was like, “What do you think about songs that kind of span years of writing. Like off saying everything, or nothing. But then, what
this idea?” and my spirit was like… ”Yes, and that last record, “God of Miracles”, I had started the song is saying is based in Scripture and is
what if we sang, “faithful You are?” and we to write it two years earlier than when I sat theologically sound and represents the God
were both like… “This feels good” so we went down to finish the bridge of it. Some of them that we are worshipping. I don’t know, I feel
back and wrote a second verse. In the end, we take a long time and change a lot in the in- that it’s a weighty thing to try and decipher
spent a lot of time on the song, but the guts of between. “Your Love Never Fails” was like that every time I’m recording. You’ll hear the finished
it were so quick, it just happened that way. I’m too. It was just a spontaneous thing that came product and maybe it’ll still hit people weird, but
always thankful for those! out of… ‘You make all things work together for I’m definitely trying not to.
my good’… and then fast forward like a year
[WM] So, you wrote it with Nate from or year and a half when I sat down and wrote [WM] One of my favorite tunes of yours,
Housefires. How did Chris Tomlin get the song stuff around it. “God of Miracles,” just got picked up by Teen
to record?
Challenge. How did that happen?
On this curren t record, there’s a song called
[Chris] Well, so Tomlin had recorded “Good “Crazy Love” that I think I struggled the most [Chris] You know, that song has been so
Good Father” which was also a Housefires with so far in trying to get it to say the right organic. I don’t know the exact story for
song. So, he asked them if they had any more thing. The terminology is… from our point of that situation. What I know is that the story I
songs that were on their latest record that they view, it’s so crazy that the God of the universe keep hearing is that somebody shows it to
thought would be good for him to record. They would give His own son for us. I mean, that’s somebody that shows it to somebody, and it’s
sent “Yes and Amen” to him. When he heard it, crazy, but how do you say it right? Not that like, “This song is giving me life and hope.” It’s
he was like, “Yeah, I’m going to do it!” Tomlin’s God’s love is crazy! So, trying to be really such a weird and awesome feeling to know
record was awesome because, I had another sensitive to how it comes across and what’s that I wrote a song that is meeting someone in
song that I had written that he picked up for that actually being communicated as opposed to the spot that they are at and gives them hope,
same record. The song is called “Impossible the feelings only. I spent a lot of time on that or helps them through a hard season. I mean,
Things.” What was great about that is that he song for this record, and I’ll just be honest what an honor! I don’t know exactly how it
heard that song in a completely different way with you… we’re still tweaking it! There have works, but I’m so thankful that I get to be a part
and ended up recording them both. When I even been some small changes that I’ve made of these people’s stories.
heard he was thinking about recording them even after the live recording, which is definitely I got excited and then told myself… “Oh, he weird, but I just want to make sure that we’re That song in particular, I feel people keep
might not.” It was such an honor for me! I was honoring to God and to worship leaders that coming back to. It’s almost viral. People are
like, “Wow! Chris Tomlin!” so cool. lead worship at their church, and to Scripture. passing it on themselves as opposed to us
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