Reach

Skillet's "Reach" is a cry sent into silence. The singer admits that "You were the only one to see / Secrets locked inside of me," then asks where that person has gone, confessing a slow bleed of loss: "I've lost a little more today." The honesty is uncomfortable on purpose, and the line "Did I scare you away?" shows the fear underneath the plea.

The refrain piles the images together: "Broke in two," "Broken and bleeding," "I'm falling deep," with a repeated request to "Reach for me." Nothing in it is polished into an answer. The chorus keeps asking for a promise of presence, and the closing lines widen the lament to everyone, since "Nobody wants to feel like this."

Read as a prayer, it sits close to the psalms of abandonment, where "How long, O Lord?" in Psalm 13 and the forsaken cry of Psalm 22 are spoken before any rescue arrives. Psalm 34:18 supplies the hopeful counterpart: the Lord is near to the brokenhearted. The song stays with the asking rather than the relief, and that restraint is why it fits people in a season of dark waiting.