This week’s featured song story comes to us from Jason Gray. We’re excited to share with you the story behind his single “Learning.”
We all love empowerment anthems you know. And those are great and they’re fun you know. But sometimes I feel like they ignore a lot of reality. I’m awesome, I’m self-sufficient, I don’t need anybody else. I can try harder, I can do this, you know. Because all of that is fine, until you encounter moments in your life when you realize you can’t do this and you’re too broken to try harder. True empowerment comes from the unfailing love of God that lifts us up and that is there with us regardless of the ways we got it right or the ways that we got it wrong. Most of the religious instruction I received when I was growing up was about performing well. It was teaching me how through discipline, and accountability, and effort, I could be who I was supposed to be. I didn’t really receive any instruction that would teach me how to respond to when life falls apart or when you disappoint yourself. In those moments, those are actually key moments where you encounter the grace of God in the most profound ways and you learn the most things. This moment is actually the moment to be excited about because this is where you’re going to break through into the next thing. So I decided to make an empowerment anthem about failure and the grace of God that you could dance to. And that’s “Learning”. I hope you like it. – Jason Gray
Click on the video interview below to hear Jason Gray share the full story and meaning behind this track, and scroll down to listen and read the full lyrics of the song.
From the album Where The Light Gets In.
“Learning” Lyrics
I know that fear is a liar
A thief breaking into my heart
He tries to steal all my fire
And shut me down before I even start, yeah
I know I can take it everyday
If there’s a way you will make it
I won’t be afraid
‘Cause I’ll be like
Hey yeah
Whatever comes my way
I’m not turning back
Hey yeah
I know your love won’t leave
So I won’t worry ’cause
If I fall I win every time I get up again
Hey yeah
‘Cause I can’t lose, if I keep learning
I’m learning, learning (yeah)
I’m learning, learning
Let them shout from the bleachers
Every time I don’t get it right (ooh yeah)
I know my failure is my teacher
And I’m still here in the fight (yeah)
I know I can take it everyday
If there’s a way you will make it
I won’t be afraid
‘Cause I’ll be like
Hey yeah
Whatever comes my way
I’m not turning back
Hey yeah
I know your love won’t leave
So I won’t worry ’cause
If I fall I win every time I get up again
Hey yeah
‘Cause I can’t lose, if I keep learning
I’m learning, learning (yeah)
I’m learning, learning
I know I can take it everyday
If there’s a way you will make it
I won’t be afraid
I know I can take it everyday
If there’s a way you will make it
I won’t be afraid
Hey yeah
Whatever comes my way
I’m not turning back
Hey yeah
I know your love won’t leave
So I won’t worry ’cause
If I fall I win every time I get up again
Hey yeah
‘Cause I can’t lose, if I keep learning
I’m learning, learning (yeah)
I’m learning, learning (learning)
I know I can take it everyday
If there’s a way you will make it
I won’t be afraid (I’m always learning, yeah)
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