Voices of Anxiety
If you saw me this last spring, you would understand the meaning behind this song. I was struggling with what I wanted to do, and had a lot of ideas that just seemed too out of reach. I became obsessed with the idea of achieving my own plan, instead of God’s plan. The voices got to me and sent me down a spiral of anxiety. This song is about the voices that go on inside our head, that just don’t go away. I want to focus on the One Voice, God’s Voice. I don’t want to listen to the ones getting in the way. John 13:7 says “Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”” Which backs up something I learned in Church… If you can understand the voice and it is clear with direct intention, it’s not God. But… If the voice is complicated and seems like you need to have a bit of faith to understand it, that’s God talking and guiding you.
Fun Fact about the Song: Something I spent a lot of time incorporating into this song were literal voices of anxiety. In different parts of the song, there are syncopated rhythms, triplets, slow-climbing scales that just don't seem to fit. I did this on purpose to give it a sense of angst, to understand the feeling. By the bridge, it unintentionally became a canon-like countermelody that I liked.
