Last Day Of Pre-Sale

Happy Saturday!
Today is officially the last day for the $7.00 pre-sale of the new CD. Make sure to take advantage of that now and help me out with our first week of sales~here are some more thoughts and musings from behind the songs…talk to you tomorrow,
-Matt

Where’s Our Revolution
“Where’s Our Revolution” is the title track and the heart and soul of the album. It’s the first song I wrote for this project and it’s autobiographical in terms of where I was at literally and mentally at the moment I wrote it. The question the song asks is: though everyone is always talking about Spiritual revolution, where is it? It’s easy to get stuck in a rut that we can’t seem to get out of, and it feels like materialism and a sense of entitlement has got us, as a culture, stuck on worrying about ourselves instead of seeing the world as God sees it with every person’s soul being precious and important. Will history remember us as one of the most selfish generations ever or will we wake up and find our purpose and destiny in the sharing and giving of the love of God. It’s a question I think we have yet to answer, and we can’t make it on our own. This song is a call to live lives of revolutionary change and it started as a challenge to myself and then became more corporate as I realized that I can’t make it alone, none of us can.

Running To Begin
This is a story of a girl in trouble. She has found herself dealing with the consequences of some bad decisions, but instead of finding grace and understanding, she is rejected by the people who are supposed to love her most. What she needs is to know that she’s not alone. The song is sung by the man in her life who shares the responsibility of her situation, but is not able or not willing to share the burden. He sings the song like a long distance letter basically telling her that he believes in her and even though their relationship is broken, he still loves her and knows she has the strength and character to do the right thing, even if he can’t. This is not my story, but it is a common tale. There is a temptation in writing a story like this to want to wrap things up all nice and neat with everything working out perfectly in the end. But I want to honor the reality of people’s struggles in real life and show how just a little love and understanding and not condemnation can go a long way not to solve all our problems but to help us keep moving forward.