Matthew's Song

Hulvey frames "Matthew's Song" as a prayer, then a rap, then a prayer again. The hook asks, "Make me a disciple, lead me to the way," and quickly turns into a question that stings: if "everything I lived for" was "all in vain," and he loses everything he gained, "will I choose the road You paved?" The vocal refrain "woah-oh-oh" sits behind each line like a congregation answering.

The verse is a workday portrait. He clocks in at nine, scans the crowd, and catches himself in the mirror, "dry inside" and "thirsty" for something that will "bring the brook out." People keep "throwin' stones" at him and he needs a friend. Then the story borrows its shape from the call of Matthew the tax collector: a Friend "next in line" looks him in the eye and says, "Follow Me," then adds "Have all of Me."

That call echoes Matthew 4:19 and Luke 9:23, where following Jesus means setting aside one's own agenda and taking up a cross. The closing chant about walking "this narrow road" holds the question open without a tidy answer, because discipleship is something the singer is still choosing. It speaks to anyone who has built a life on the wrong foundation and is deciding whether to leave it.