On The Edge - I wanted to write a song about the experience we both felt, or a person feels, when they are on the brink of a relationship... the excitement and anticipation. My sister comes to me and shows me these amazing melodies and beautiful words to a song she was working on about the same idea! So I begged and pleaded, no pun intended, for her to let me use them. So she consented, and I wrote a bunch more lyrics and structurally made it fit with my style and out came this song I am proud of... and I hope she is too. Love my sister. 

08 On The Edge

When I'm Far - After all the struggling and contemplation, I saved this song for last. I also started writing this song months before and have been working on it ever since, throughout all the others. It caps the album by metaphorically saying, "The struggles don't mean anything, and God is enough for me." 

10 When I'm Far

Slow Ticking Clock - This song birthed out of another personal event that happened in my time of existing on earth. I won't say much more than, it was a story that I transposed into this song. That's why it's a bit different lyrically and the way it plays out, it's written to mirror the story, telling the same tale.


09 Slow Ticking Clock

Calling Quit - Not to be confused with the phrase, "call it quits." This is probably the most personal song in this accumulation. There's a lot of personal stuff throughout all of the album, but this song is very personal. A lot of these songs were written beCAUSE of the break up, when this was written aBOUT the break up. I wrote it and recorded it while on vacation in a cabin. Again, it's written from many different perspectives. The verses are both from God speaking to me. The first chorus is what she said. The second chorus is what I said. 

07 Calling Quit

No Resolve - This is written at the peak of my frustration with the whole situation. It is probably the most honest I get. It talks about void, deep pits of depravity, and how there is no resolve to anything that happens... OK, in a sense, this is not true. In Christ we are more than conquerers, BUT, that does NOT mean we get answers to all of our questions and experiences that ship and shape us. Emphasis on the ship. So this song was written out of sheer frustration over the infuriating realization that questions are left unanswered. 

06 No Resolve

Absence - This was the last song I had to tackle before writing the worshipful song. It expands upon the "being haunted by memories" idea mentioned in the song before. It was probably the most difficult song to put together for some unknown reason; taking ideas from multiple genres and crevices I could reach into, with whatever piece of imagination and emotion I had left in me. I also took notes from the classic, "You Are My Sunshine." Adding a verse to the end that applied to the situation. 

05 Absence

If I Could -  I had this song in the works long before I even decided to write songs. I would record melodies on my phone when they came to me, and put this together and recorded it almost a year before I actually completed it. It goes through the motions of a break up... seeing them around every corner, and feeling them even after they're gone. The chorus hits a stride, almost a declaration, of wanting to be better so that maybe it could still work out. Then toward the end, with my tongue-in-cheek, I give up and admit my fallen nature. 

04 If I Could

Ghosts - This is, considerably, my favorite song. I feel like if it had the right production it could be very epic. It is about seeing someone move on from you when you feel you should still be with them, and the angst and misfortune of feeling... that comes from that downcast circumstance. I maybe could've done more with it...  but am ultimately satisfied with it. It was originally intended to bridge 'Fall Down' and 'If I Could.'

03 Ghosts

Fall Down - This was the first song I finished, and first one I recorded for this collection of songs... kind of just to see if I could make any music from just recording straight into my MacBook. This was written out of a surplus of overwhelm of that feeling of disconnect that one may get when one feels stagnant and where one may walk around the face of the earth physically but not actually move forward spiritually. After the first chorus the second half of the song is written from Jesus' perspective, telling the people who feel that way that they don't need to feel that way. 

02 Fall Down

Welcome To Earth - This song is written from God's perspective toward humanity. It starts off with the notion of purity in welcoming the love of His life, us, to the creation He has made for His people.He goes on to say that it isn't exactly what He intended, like it used to be, but to take hope even in the times that aren't too inviting. I got my brother to play electric on this as well as many others and he kills it with his amazing rig. Love my brother. This recording doesn't do this song justice.


People