Like for me whenever we're writing something for me to find it's not like I have a big book of lyrics
lt's more like what is the feeling of this song, and so I'm always more of a feel writer like
stuff will just kind of come out like, where's he got other guys like Hastings and Jolie or is
they like just geniuses with they've got concepts they want to try put in a song whereas I'm like
what is this song trying to say, and so this felt like we started I started thinking about Gethsemane through the Cross
And just that journey that Jesus walked I was like, that would be an amazing journey to put
into this song and I feel like it's like, I don't know we just started working on those lyrics
And gone from there so from the moment he was in Gethsemane on his knees crying out to God through
to the ultimately die on the cross but I just think there's something so powerful about it
And so yeah, this song that's pretty much what it is it's Gethsemane to the cross and really
wanting to paint a picture of that and taking everything we read in the bible and obviously
you read through Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, this story so taking those thoughts and those
That story that's painted throughout those books and doing it in a song and trying to do it justics
But I just wanted to be as visual as I could be with it so when people listen to this song
they feel like they're walking that journey with him It's amazing what a work can do to stir up
that in your head and actually connect those lyrics to your spirit but yeah
I went over in November of 2021, and so being able to be there to finish off was awesome
What we ended up doing was I wanted to sing it and we kept tweaking it as we went like so ended up
being more like as I'm singing in we're just changing little things
[Joel] My sin is gone [Matt singing "Blown Away"] ♪My sin is gone♪♪
[Joel] That's pretty cool I don't know how do they put it together
but I played it through like eight times So I was in that little studio space on my own in the room
It was pretty much just me playing it through And because that was the feel like the demo
was always something we loved so much You get demo artists with certain songs and this one
was one of those songs where it's like I want to replicate what we did in that one take here in Sydney
And do it again as the actual take And everyone was on the same page
But it just really was just me just going and playing it
The actual song you're hearing if you see the visual with it, that's the actual recording of it
I was a little bit nervous because we're gonna do this tonight, it was just like we're doing it
I was like, "All right. So what am I doing? You're like no you're just going and playing, I was like
And that's the take yeah that's the recording I was like, "Cool" and like I'm like Nathaniel,
one of the guys we work with who's always filming stuff he, he's so easy to be around so it was
he was just a fly on the wall just doing his thing but I wasn't nervous I just was I wanted to do
the song justice, so I was like I want it to feel like it did when I first sang it out with Aodhan
And it was just really worshipful, and it was a, it was real and so I think
It was real still at the time because we just kind of finished the lyrics so we kept working on it still
[Joel] Lifted on high crucified He who knew no sin, The Nazarene
The Son of Man, you know like how crucify, though he knew though he, "what's that scripture?"
Literally just Matthew, Mark, Luke and John just in it like on Chapter 22
Or whatever it was in each one of them and just reading through all those
And then, what's amazing is going through different versions of the bible like you go NIV
or King James whatever Passion version and like there's all different ways of describing things
And it's just finding those words that for me resonate in my spirit and just help paint that picture
that we're trying to paint fresh
[Joe] By the way, you can't say you took my place [Matt] Oh
[Matt and Joel talking] [Joel] Let's go sing that song
I love betrayed by a kiss of a friend, Jolie brought in "made a king of fools" and I was like
I love that because we, I can't remember what we had, but was something similar
but it was just again that's what Joel does to a lyric
That it's always like you're seeing what happened and then you put yourself in the picture
so you go from like describing it and seeing it and painting a picture and you go back to what
you went through to love me I'll never understand what plays when I'm underway as you love me as I am
You put yourself in the picture you remind yourself like this is what he did for us
That's what he did for me and so that was what that's what that section's meant to do
I loved, I'm still going through it all, they call for Barabbas like I genuinely love it all
I love that was another Jolie idea they call for Barabbas and just the whole like that moment
Everyone just, you know, turned on him like they already turned on him to a point but I can't
I don't think I even have one favorite, actually I do, "Eloi Eloi lama sabachthani"
I'm up for one, I don't know if I've ever heard that in a song but man there's just something like
heavy about that and putting that in a song and the amount of people who are like what are you
singing there so you're telling me oh really just something about that it's special
And it's got nothing to do with us it's just again we're just taking scripture and just trying to
put it in there, but it was like how like close to scripture could we stick, that was the idea
[Matt singing "Blown Away"] ♪Death is defeated, now my sin is gone
and I’m blown away and I'm blown away♪♪