The Rabbit Room

This song is the first one we wrote for the new record and it’s a collaboration with my friend Joel Hanson. Joel was the frontman for the seminal 90’s band PFR and he’s one of my favorite songwriters. He’s a master of beatles-esque songsmithery featuring melodic ear worms that lodge themselves in your psyche. I’ve been blessed to write some of the best songs I get to sing with him, like “Blessed Be” and “I Am New.” I’m a big fan.

It was born out of a particularly tumultuous time in my own life, hence the opening line: It’s okay, this is just the end.

We originally wanted to open the record with this track because we thought it would be really rock and roll if that was the very first lyric you heard, but we opted instead to open with “Remind Me Who I Am” because of how it set up the rest of the record thematically.

It’s still meaningful to me that right on the heels of a song about understanding our identity in Christ is a song about the collapse of our identity in self-effort.

The End of Me
(Jason Gray / Joel Hanson)

It’s okay
This is just the end
Don’t be afraid
This is where it begins
Everything here had to fall apart
But in the ruins of a broken heart

I found peace like a river to attend my soul
And hope running over when I let go
I found joy that was hidden for all these years
And love overflowing to wash over everything
I found it here at the end of me

It’s alright
We’re not alone
We don’t have to fight
The very things that might
Lead us back home
Every wound here is a place to start
The healing of a broken heart

I found peace like a river to attend my soul
And hope running over when I let go
I found joy that was hidden for all these years
And love overflowing to wash over everything
I found it here at the end of me

The end of me is not the enemy
It’s where mercy gets the better part of me
The end of me is not the enemy
It’s where love was always leading me

A Way To See In The Dark available on iTunes, and the Rabbit Room Store