He asked me to trust the universe and pull a book off the shelf, open it to any page, and stick my finger onto a sentence or word randomly. When I did, I saw the line: “Father, why have you forsaken me?” I felt goosebumps on the back of my neck. I can’t remember what the book was called, but it was a quote from Jesus. “That’s it,” I breathed. “That’s the line.” I wrote a little bit more to flesh it out, and the line completely transformed the whole song. It gave depth to the darkness of the chorus Daron had written and made the whole song sound like an angry lamentation toward an indifferent
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