This song was written during my first year of college, when I felt like I couldn't hear the essence of who I was over the shouting of all the voices telling me who I should be. Starting that next phase of my life was supposed to be an opportunity to start clean, to rebuild myself from a blank slate, but instead I felt the weight of a hundred different identities all weighing down on me, and while they all fought for my attention, I couldn't tell which one was the real me.
Until I looked up.
When I shifted my gaze from the horizontal to the vertical, all these parts of me that I thought were fracturing my essence and creating a discordant jumble of incompatible people melted into a single man. 
Only through the eyes of my Maker can I see the beauty in my contradictions. The intentionality to what I perceived as chaos. When I begin to look at myself through a divine lens, only then can I find unity. Only then can I reconcile these innumerable parts of myself. 
If I stop asking myself who the voices around me want me to be, and instead ask myself who I was created to be, I can find my true identity buried beneath the failures and the insecurities. I can finally feel like one man again. 

In Your Eyes

I'm an individualist, a firm believer that we weren't made for a homogenous existence. Yet everyday we go to war against the magazines and the television commercials that say, "You have to fit in. This ideal is what you should be."
I resent that. The only ideal I want to live up to is the one that I can become simply by being me. After all, my identity (and yours) was conceived of in the mind of my God long before any of these corporations began telling me who I should be. So instead of hiding in the crowd, I want to stand out. I want to be who I was made to be, rather than contort myself to fit the mold that I was never made to be put into. I don't want to let who am die for the sake of conformity. I want for my inner being, my essence, my soul, my identity, to come alive.

Willibby