Lyrics Brandon Willey
Instrumental music Jeff
Davis, Tim Trainor
Vocalic music Jeff Davis
On the same night
that "All I Own" was thrown together, Brandon debuted this piece. Tim and Jeff
played around with a guitar part for about fifteen minutes, and things were
working! Jeff hurried together a vocal line, and the song was not truly
completed until Tim's final project at the Conservatory of Recording Arts and
Sciences, where it was recorded with Chris Bisset on lead guitar. At that
point, it was a slow, Latin-feel ballad. Before the first Berean show, Jeff
decided the song would work better fast, and they tried it out with Gabe Durben
on lead guitar, and Terry Willey helping out on percussion. It was recorded for
"Purify"
as the faster version with Gabe's flamenco riffs.
Lyric thoughts by Brandon This song has an amazing
tale behind it...I was sitting in the Memorial Union's cafeteria in front of
Chick-fil-a at Arizona State University, finishing a Pizza Hut personal pan
combo just watching all the people pass by. I was fascinated by the diversity
of God, but distressed at the same time to see so many that were wandering in
directions leading far away from God. I pulled out my notepad and began writing
down the thoughts and words that were coming to me. Still to this day, that is
one of the only songs that I wrote with little need of editing. God was truly
moving my hand that day! |
