UP!

"Up like my name Lazarus" points directly to John 11, where Jesus calls a dead man out of the tomb with three words: "Lazarus, come out." The song's whole hook — "I was down but now I'm up" — works as a modern retelling of Psalm 40:2's "He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock." Where the verse describes rescue from danger, the song applies the same shape of reversal to ordinary discouragement and stuck seasons. The verses shift into a more personal account of years of unseen effort — "ten thousand hours He spent in the dark" — before any of it was visible, framing both the rescue and the hidden work behind it as God's doing rather than luck.