As Family We Go - Tour Playlist

“Our Last Goodbye” is a slow-burning, emotional ballad about the moment when love, memory, and loss all meet in the same breath. Built on soft, intimate verses that rise into a powerful cinematic chorus, the track feels like a final conversation — the words you say when you know things will never be the same again.

Our Last Goodbye

Lyrics By: Paulo Sergio Carvalho

I knew you were different, girl
Something new caught me off guard
Made me look at you again
You had me intrigued from the start

Meet me at the Lost Café tonight
Let’s chat and get to know each other
This could be something special, girl
No way I let you slip away tonight

Laughing and talking is so easy
With you, tonight it’s so strange
Just met you, but I’ve known you all my life
No other girl has has felt this change

Tell me what it is, girl why?
It’s like you’re from a different time
Reminds me of an old black-and-white movie
What the heck is going on in my mind?

I met my soulmate at the Lost Café
We were strangers, but it felt fated that day
One look, and I forgot my name
One smile, and I’ll never be the same

Please tell me you feel it too, girl
That I’m not the only one caught in this light
The more time I spend, the more it's clear
I never want to leave your sight
What about you feels so right?

The night turns to dawn so quickly
Still here talking, laughing softly
You ask me what I’m doing today
I just smile cause you already know me

I met soulmate at the Lost Café
We were strangers, but it felt fated that day
One look, and I forgot my name
One smile, and I’ll never be the same

Now every song reminds me of your face
Every heartbeat falls right into place
The way you laugh, the way you tilt your head
Feels like I’ve read your lines before they’re said

Girl, you turned my world around so fast
Turned a fleeting moment into something that lasts
I don't know what tomorrow will be
But if you’re in it that’s enough for me

We met at the Lost Café, girl
It was like a dream I never had
I enjoyed every second with you
And your smile says you did too

So meet me again at the Lost Café
Where forever began in just one day
If we never make it past this day,
If life should pull us different ways,

And if you ever lose your way…
I’ll be waiting at the Lost Café.

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To understand what makes Rend Collective so unique and special among worship artists, you have to go back—way back. Some 1500 years ago, the Irish missionary St. Brendan sailed from the Irish coast without maps or any clue where he was headed. “The only thing he knew was that God had called him,” says bandleader and drummer Gareth Gilkeson. And so Brendan chose to “go”: a bold act of faith that not only echoes the album title As Family We Go, but also speaks volumes about the songs.

It also tells you a lot about Rend Collective, a Northern Irish band that has ventured from its native land at the beckoning of an invisible hand. And they’re doing it differently than most other artists before them, living and working—singing and sharing the laundry duties—as a tight-knit family. It’s just the foundation to foster faith and community through music, and forms the heart and strength behind their latest effort.

And my, how this musical family has grown. This young, freewheeling band has seen so much recent success: from opening for the likes of Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman and Kari Jobe, to landing Christian radio hits such as the revival hymn, “Build Your Kingdom Here.”

The next logical step, then, was to hunker down in their private studio and work at a brisk, breathtaking pace—cutting the eleven tracks on As Family We Go in two weeks. As Gilkeson puts it: “There wasn’t much time for sleep—just going for it.”

In this case, sleep deprivation yielded divine inspiration. Then again, how many bands brave a family pilgrimage the way Rend Collective does? Or proudly present themselves as examples of a self-styled genre, “celebration music”?

Though that describes the sound on the new disc—a joyful mélange of foot-stomping acoustic grooves and full-on pop pockets worthy of U2—it only hints at the spiritual thread that pulls everything together.

“We want to make music that is journey music,” says singer Chris Llewellyn. “We notice that sometimes music is seen as the end goal, that a worship encounter is having a music experience. But that’s not really it; it should be the soundtrack to mission: community living, the soundtrack to a meaningful worship experience.”

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