Get Through (Commentary)

"Get Through" begins to take us to an even, um, darker place

Um, where we grapple with the sufferings of humanity

It was inspired by a conversation I had with my uncle

Um, actually, a few months ago, where he took me to the corner

In the middle of Southside St. Pete

And he told me to look around

And I looked around and I saw the under-resourced reality

I saw, uh, hopelessness, I saw brokenness

Uh, um, I was just reminded of what I

You know, grew up around, um, as a teenager

And he told me to take a good look at all of this

With some colorful language, heh

And, uh, he said, "If you don't have anything in your music that can

Speak to these people here, you are doing a disservice to your call"

And, uh, that struck me

And I went home and I wrote this, um

And, uh, was able to team up with a label mate

And able to have a very honest, you know, forthright, you know

Um, transparent dialogue around where we often find ourselves

And the most basic call of desperation

Is when you get to the end of yourself

You realize that you have been seeking

Shelter in your money, in your status

Um, you have been, um, confused and lost and desperate

And when you find yourself in that place, good

Because God helps those who cannot help themselves, you know?

Uh, this song is called "Trying to Get

Through" because that's where we get

It's like that, that place where you get to the end of yourself

I'm like, "Man, I'm just trying to get through this"

And I flip it at the end

Where I, I sh-, I show that God is actually saying that to us

That it is through this situation that He

Is actually trying to get through to us

Um, there's so much, uh, that we can get out of our pain

You know what I mean?

There's so much, um, that, that, that God uses pain to do in our lives

That there's something greater than just getting out of the situation

It's sitting and finding what is the situation getting out of us

And using that to build a future, a hope, a destiny

So, yeah, "Get Through"