Joely brought in “Made a king of fools” and I loved that. I love the lyric “betrayed by a kiss of a friend”. It helped me paint that picture that we’re trying to paint. Literally it’s just going through the Bible in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and reading through all those, then going through the different versions of the Bible of each of those stories, and there are all different ways of describing things and it’s just finding those words that for me resonate in my spirit. How did you write the lyrics for “Blown Away”? And what are your favourite lyric? So I wanted it to feel like it did when I first sang it out with Aodhan… it was just really worshipful and raw. Nathaniel, our creative director, was filming the whole thing, and it was so easy to be around him, as he brilliantly captured the whole thing. To be honest, I was a little bit nervous because we made the choice to film it on the spot. It really was just me playing it through in one take as the actual song you’re hearing if you see the visual with it… that’s the actual recording of it. We loved the demo so much that we wanted 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. However, I played it through like eight times, and it was pretty much just me playing it through. The way we collaborated was I wanted to sing it and we kept tweaking it as we sang over it. I flew to America in November of 2021, and was able to be there to finish writing the song with Aodhan and Joel. It’s amazing what a story like this can do to stir up that moment in your head and your heart, and actually connect those lyrics to your spirit. I just wanted to be as visual as I could be with it so when you listen to this song you feel like you’re walking that journey with Him. We really wanted to take those different perspectives from each account and put it in a song, and do it justice. So with “Blown Away” it portrays Jesus’ journey from Gethsemane to the cross and really painting a picture of that story and taking everything we read in the Bible from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. What is it like putting Scripture to a song? I think there’s something powerful about that whole journey. So with “Blown Away” I began thinking about Gethsemane through to the cross and the journey that Jesus walked and I asked myself, “How could we put this journey into this song?” From that point, we just started working on the lyrics beginning from the moment Jesus was in Gethsemane on His knees crying out to God, through to ultimately dying on the cross. My approach often begins with a question “What is this song trying to say?” Whereas with guys like Hastings and Joely, they’re just geniuses with concepts they want to try put in a song. She was sensational.Whenever we’re writing, it’s not like I have a big book of lyrics, instead I ask what is the feeling of this song? I would say I’m more of a “feel-writer”. A month later, at her own headlining gig, Katie performed the song again and just rocked the rafters. Songwriters live for the moment a singer brings a song to life. I gave mad props to McBride's "Independence Day" citing it as the inspiration for "Sirens." Then Katie came out on stage and blew the roof off of Goldies. Before I brought Katie to the stage, I gave some of the background of the song. I sang a few originals myself, but REALLY wanted the audience to hear "Sirens." So, I invited Katie (who has a ridiculous Underwood-like range) to sing in my showcase as a special guest. Headliners typically performed eight songs in a Goldie's show. It was September of 2008 and I was the headliner at Goldie's Best Little Opryhouse in Kentucky. After her Idol performance Thursday night, Carrie explained in exclusive video for American Idol's website about how "Blown Away" was inspired by Martina McBride's "Independence Day." That reminded me so vividly of the night we debuted "Sirens" with our friend Katie Beste.
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