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Still

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Anxiety gets named plainly in the first line of "Still" — "admittedly I can be anxious at times" — before Brian Courtney Wilson ever gets to the promise the song is built around.

The specific fear he names is precise and relatable rather than vague: working to get ahead and still falling behind, wondering "if I was meant to win the race" at all. "This time I will be still" works as a correction to a pattern implied but never fully described — the phrasing suggests past attempts to fix anxiety through more striving, not less, and this song as a deliberate change of approach. "24-7 He never sleeps" answers the earlier admission of exhaustion directly: the singer's inability to keep pace is met with a constancy that doesn't need matching, only trusting.

The bridge borrows the mountain-moving language of Mark 11 but inverts the usual application — instead of the singer needing enough faith to move a mountain, "the mountain has to move" and "must obey," shifting the burden of the miracle off the singer's effort entirely.

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Admittedly I can be anxious at times,

As I consider the challenges I have to face.

Like when I work to get ahead

And still fall behind,

I start to wonder if I was meant to win the race.

Striving to do things right, but when things go wrong

Tempted to hide

But this time I will be still

This time I will be still

Thankfully it is hard for me

To keep feeling this way, when I consider

Who is on my side

(The Lord is My Help).

Walking with me every step I need to take

On the desperate days and the long dark nights.

24-7 He never sleeps,

And when I remember

It brings me peace.

This time I will be still

And the mountain has to move

The mountain must obey

The words that I speak

And bow down to my faith

Because I got work to do

And I’m gonna see it thru

God showed me the way

And I’m choosing it today

(repeat)

This time I will be still

(this time no mountain can stop me)

This time I will be still

(this time I’m focused and resolute)

This time I will be still

(My help is coming. My help is here in you)

The Lord is my help

This time I will be still

And the mountain has to move

(repeat)

This time I will be still

And the mountain has to move

This time I will be still

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