Hello again everyone!
I've been making music since I was a kid. The first time I wrote a song I was about 9. I don't remember how it went, or even what it was about anymore, but I remember writing it. For me writing songs is one of the best ways to express an emotion and/or send a message. The stronger the emotion or message, the better the song. So obviously my decision to embark on the World Race was something I needed to write a song about.
I wrote the guitar part of the song a while ago while sitting at a friend's house (before the world race even came up), but didn't quite know what would become of it. After I was accepted I felt the need to write a song about it, and that guitar part was perfect. I asked God to give me the content for the lyrics, and within a weekend, I had them all written. The song was complete.
Here are the lyrics:
I'm gonna race the world as it goes round and round
I hear your call, but you don't make a sound
I've spent all my life trying to be strong
Trying to do things right, but I've been doing it all wrong
And all the things I've done they never got me far
When you're the prodigal son you don't know where you are at all
So I was sitting at the bottom of the bottom again
Trying to figure out how I got stuck in the pigpen
And I started thinking
This isn't what I wanted from my life
And now it seems like my only choice is to leave that life behind
Cause I can no longer pretend that i don't need you in my life
Cause with you through all of the darkest times I've always seen the light
And you have called me by name and so I will listen and follow you
To the ends of the earth.
Well, the song was written. Then I needed to record it. I recorded the song with my audio engineer friend Kristy LeMay, who I've been recording with for years. We got the audio (guitar and vocals) recorded and mixed in a record setting (for us) three hours! Then my friends Felipe and James Bida from Bida Prouctions made an amazing video to help spread the word about my trip.
Here's the video:
Evan Dias – World Race from Bida Productions on Vimeo.
This is the first song I've written in a long time that has anything to do with God. Maybe I was scared of how my friends would react, or maybe I just didn't have anything to say on the matter before this. But now, it was way bigger than the opinions of my friends, and I finally found an emotion and message on the subject strong enough to write a song about. This song marks the point in my life where I left all the "pigpen business" I was a part of behind me. The time when the prodigal son decided to go home. The point where I see the life I'm leaving behind in the rear view mirror and drive toward what God has called me to do. And if God calls me by name to do something, who am I to say no?
