per se but they’ re just trying to obey God in their own lives, it just does something to kind of keep it real. If those are the people we’ re writing for and the people that you lead worship for … if you’ re not doing life with them, then I think it’ s hard to really lead them well. Shepherds with sheep, they do life with the sheep every day. They know their sheep, they sleep there with the sheep, and eat with the sheep. If they didn’ t do that, if they had someone else do all of that and they just showed up once a week, they wouldn’ t know the sheep. I think to lead you’ ve got to know the sheep, and that’ s what we’ re getting to do at the Belonging.
[ WM ]“ Cover the Earth”! So I love that it’ s kind of a duet and that Kari, you start off in this‘ traditional Kari Jobe’ intro and verse, and then Cody, all of a sudden you’ re rocking the bridge like,“ The dudes have got it here!”
[ Cody ]( laughs)
[ Kari ] Yeah, he takes over( laughs)!
“ Cover the Earth” // Kari Jobe & Cody Carnes
[ WM ] So, it’ s kind of a one-two punch, and it’ s a little unexpected. How did the song come together and did it start out as a duet?
[ Cody ] One-two punches as much as we can! The way that that came about wasn’ t really that we set out to make a duet. It came out that way because I wrote that bridge in Church unexpectedly one day back in December. We were leading a different song but I just kind of went into this section spontaneously and singing it, and I remember it just kind of moved the room. I thought that was kind of cool. I just need to remember that for a song. I came off stage after that set and grabbed my phone and made a voice memo.
While I was doing that I felt God say,“ That’ s the bridge to“ Cover the Earth.” which was a song that we’ d being doing the chorus in Church for a few months before that. That chorus in our Church was just catching wind and moving. So when God said that was the bridge to“ Cover the Earth”, I thought that was really interesting and went home and put the two together and it just felt like the puzzle piece.
When we got to arranging the song the bridge was in my vocal range and the chorus was in Kari’ s, so it was like why don’ t we do this together? Obviously, we love leading together so it just made a lot of sense. We love songs that we can lead together, even in Church songs like“ King of My Heart” and“ Open Heaven River Wild” or some of our stuff like“ Closer to Your Heart”, there are songs that we love doing the duet and leading together. I feel like a lot of Churches could benefit from that as well. You’ ve got a guy, you’ ve got a girl, including
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