I wrote “We Fall Down” in season of life when two things were happening. The CCM music industry was moving very quickly toward an almost exclusive diet of “praise music,” and we songwriters were being specifically asked to avoid the dark themes of human frailty and failing, human relationships, human issues, and focus instead on uptempo, happy, clappy, vertically-directed love songs to God. After 9-11 especially, people wanted to be happy, to be assured, to lose themselves in confident praise of their…
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