for a few hours, and I wrote pretty much the
whole song that night. It was just all coming
out. I wrote it by myself and it all just kind of fell
out that night and happened in that moment
with God.
It’s funny, any of the songs that I’ve released
recently that feel like they’ve had a significant
impact, have all been the songs that have had
those kinds of moments. Like, “Man, I feel
this burning thing in my chest, an encounter
with God. I feel the Holy Spirit in the room,
and I feel that He’s speaking something really
significant into me”. Those kinds of moments
have really been the songs that have an impact,
and in a significant way. Some of those have
happened by myself and some of those have
happened with other people, but that is the
most consistent thing that I feel like I’m seeing.
When you have an encounter with God while
writing a song, its like He gets locked up in
that song. Other people listen to it and its like
they’re invited into that same moment. It’s really
awesome, and it’s crazy.
[WM] Can you describe your co-writing
regimen? Your song, “Nothing Else” is a
fantastic collaborative effort between yourself,
Hank Bentley, and Jessie Early. Our finest
worship motives are crystalized in those lyrics,
and the song’s heart should bring any listener
like I see something different every time. Just So, I’m sitting there reading that story, and I feel to their knees. What methods do you employ to
to have the reverence of what that weekend God speak to me and say, “The cross has the co-write with others?
represents and what happened with the cross final word”. He said that. It just popped into my and the resurrection. I was doing just that, and head and lit up my heart. I just went, “Whoa, [Cody] Co-writing is a really beautiful thing.
I was actually really heavy hearted that day. I that is a crazy statement”. I had never heard Using “Nothing Else” as an example, when we
think one of the big Isis terrorist attacks had something quite like that before. I just had this sat down that day, the only thing I brought to
happened and there was a lot of fear and a lot encounter with God, and it was crazy because the session was just the melody. I didn’t have a
of questions I was bringing to that moment and it honestly felt like before that moment my heart concept, didn’t have a lyric or anything, didn’t
to God. I’m reading the story of the cross and was just like the disciples on the boat with know what the song was going to be about, I
I remember asking God in that moment, “God, Jesus. There was kind of like a crazy storm where is the hope”? I know it’s here. I know it. and I was freaking out and as soon as I heard I’ve heard it my whole life, and I believe that’s that it was like Jesus just calmed the storm it’s here and I understand what Jesus’ truth in my heart. I remember having that moment, says, but right now in this moment I just don’t and I thought I’ve got to write this and help see it. Where does it apply and where is it at other people have this moment and have this in our current state of the world and our lives? revelation.
There was a lot of stuff going on with my wife at
the time; just kind of a lot of uneasiness.
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I went to the piano in the studio and I was up
September 2019
Nothing Else
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