Following up "Midnight", Rita Springer has released her second song from her upcoming album. "Landslide" is a song of surrender speaking to the mighty love of God that wins us over. The chorus sings out, "Every piece / Every part / You’re after it all / You’re after my heart." In an exclusive guest blog post below, Rita shares the story behind her new song "Landslide."
"Landslide" Song Story - By: Rita Springer
I search for ways to say things that have perhaps been said over and over but are still so needed on the human tongue. When I sat down to write "Landslide," I was in a place of great transition. The kind of feeling knows change is coming, but a change that does not want you to prepare for it! I started writing the chord progression and the lyrics began to fall into place. I needed to tell God He was steadfast and faithful. For me, even in the most turbulent moments of not knowing, I have realized I choose to rush back to tell God how much He means to me. How He can have my all and all. I love that about my spirit. It's been so used to leaning in that no matter if I have yet to see what I long for, I will start automatically saying what I know my deep has to declare! God is faithful and steadfast and constant and HE is after us to be after HIM.
I had the song without a bridge and took it into a writing session with Hank Bentley and Jessie Early. They never hesitated and as I played what I had, they immediately jumped on board. The bridge became this risk of being willing to not only give God the pursuit of our hearts but to make his love out to be the crashing, thundering, consuming landslide of life and explosion. We live among wounded people the enemy has been wrecking, causing them to feel such deep degrees of depression and anxiety.
This has really bothered me - to feel the trapping of what we think and become enslaved to believing about ourselves has become a rising percentage in the church. A place where we should walk in freedom and have salvation as our passage is haunted by darkness in our minds. Sometimes we need to see the rescue of God in its dramatic state of being. Like… a landslide crashing down a mountain in for the rescue. Can God’s love come in like a rushing wind? As believers it's imperative to speak out what we know to be true. The Bible says to think on those things, "whatever is true, noble, pure, right..." (Philippians 4:8). The bridge became almost like an anthem of release to this.
"Bringing everything good, everything right, everything pure, I'm not gonna fight, Your love is like a landslide. Take me out of my head, out of my mind, into my heart, I'm not gonna fight, Your love is like a landslide."
The song was titled "After My Heart", but as I began to sing it out in churches I was always asked about the "landslide song." The more I thought about it the more I wanted that imagery left as an impression. Not destruction, but consumption. The all consuming love of God becoming what is our self sufficiency.
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