“There’s a lot of beauty that comes from the ashes. “Usually, I’m a bit more of a crafter, but that poured out of me,” he says. Admittedly, he tends to labor over his lyrics. “And then I thought-On my behalf.”įrom there, the chorus for “Help Is on the Way (Maybe Midnight)” uncharacteristically flowed from pencil to paper for the 56-year-old Christian hip-hop recording artist, songwriter, music producer and author. “I read that God is rolling up His sleeves, and I just thought what a promise that is, what comfort to think that the God of all creation is literally rolling up His sleeves on our behalf,” Toby says. “I had written many songs since Truett’s passing and most of them had been like heart heavy, intense in the valley,” Toby tells Decision.īut then one morning during his devotional time, Toby read the paraphrase of Psalm 98 from The Message.
Before seven-time Grammy winner TobyMac released his first single of the year in February, he wondered if he “would ever write another up-tempo, throw-your-fist-in-the-air song,” following the death of his 21-year-old son, Truett, nearly two years ago.
