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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