Get Back Your Fight

A countdown opens the song, "6 5 4 3 2 1," with the speaker awake until morning after "a wild one," a "dark one." Sarah Reeves turns her own songwriting into therapy: "singing myself heartbreak songs" because the voice "helps me heal." She hopes someone "in a similar boat" will feel "a little more less alone," and then prays plainly, "Pray to the Lord can you please help my soul."

The second verse is the most candid. She walks in public "putting on my happy face," saying "I'm doing fine" while "underneath I'm slowly dying," and she describes stuffing problems down and drowning them in music. Having "learned about the grieving cycle," she admits she is "still at stage 1 in denial." Then comes the turn: "I think it's time to be honest with me."

The refrain is a promise to the listener and to herself: "Fear is a lie, we'll be alright," and "one day you're gonna get back your fight." Psalm 34:18 says the Lord is near the brokenhearted, Isaiah 41:10 answers fear with God's presence, and 2 Timothy 1:7 says fear is not from God.