Quote me on this: Audrey Assad’s Restless is one of the best worship ballads of 2010. I featured her a few months ago when her debut single, For the Love of You, was released. For the Love of You was a remarkable single, but Restless is absolutely gorgeous! I wholeheartedly recommend it, two thumbs up, three if I had ’em.
According to an interview on HearItFirst.com, for Restless, Audrey and co-writer Matt Maher holed themselves up in a room to collaborate on what they felt was an important passage out of St Augustine’s book, Confessions. The Catholic songwriters prayed over the line Our hearts are restless ’til they rest in you. Assad says something resonated within her as she meditated on it; specifically, how that “restlessness” seemed to speak to so many of today’s youth, who are caught up in the noise and hustle-bustle of today’s technological times. In the midst of all that restlessness, tangible relationships of both earthly and physical kind are watered down. Despite it all, we still “haven’t found what we’re looking for. I’m supposed to have everything I need in Christ and it feels like I haven’t gotten it.”
I’d agree with that. Audrey Assad’s Restless has a very solemn, almost ethereal quality to it that sets it apart from most other worship songs currently playing on CCM radio. It reminds me almost of Sarah McLachlan, although comparisons to Adie and Kristy Nockels seem more appropriate. I especially love how the vocal layers build up at the choruses (just Audrey Assad in the first chorus, then a second voice – Matt Maher’s? – in the second chorus, and the final chorus features full harmonies. It doesn’t sound “Catholic,” and Assad speaks about that here – and at the end of the day, theological differences aside, whatever music allows you to experience God to His fullest glory yet most intimate and personal, will be music that I will recommend. I definitely recommend Audrey Assad’s Restless.
Gospel Music Channel is currently offering Restless as a free download! You can click here to download Audre Assad’s Restless for free, so please hie on over asap and download while you can.
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RESTLESS Lyrics
Audrey Assad
You dwell in the songs that we are singing
Rising to the Heavens, rising to Your heart, Your heart
Our praises filling up the spaces
In between and frailty and everything You are
You are the keeper of my heart
And I’m restless, I’m restless
‘Til I rest in You, ’til I rest in You
I’m restless, I’m restless
‘Til I rest in You, ’til I rest in You
Oh God, I wanna rest in You
Oh, speak now for my soul is listening
Say that You have saved me, whisper in the dark
‘Cause I know You’re more than my salvation
Without You I am hopeless, tell me who You are
You are the keeper of my heart
You are the keeper of my heart
And I’m restless, I’m restless
‘Til I rest in You, ’til I rest in You
I’m restless, I’m restless
‘Til I rest in You, ’til I rest in You
I wanna rest in You
Still my heart hold me close
Let me hear a still small voice
Let it grow, let it rise
Into a shout, into a cry
Still my heart hold me close
Let me hear a still small voice
Let it grow, let it rise
Into a shout, into a cry
And I’m restless, I’m restless
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‘Til I rest in You, let me rest in You
I’m restless, so restless
‘Til I rest in You, ’til I rest in You
Oh God, I will rest in You
Credits :
songwriters: assad, audrey; maher, matt
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