Head Over Heels

Track nine lets the album breathe out. After the glass and the throne and the dark where Christ spoke a name, Head Over Heels is what a rescued man cannot help doing - he falls for the One who found him. I was running through the dark, every road led back to me. And then Your mercy found my heart like a fire in the rain.

This song is unembarrassed joy, and it belongs right here. Sweet Release is a quiet, internal album, and a record this honest about wounds and curating and pride could tip into something gray and heavy. This track refuses that. Heart on fire, soul awake, for the love You freely gave. The grace is free - that word matters, it is the whole hinge - and a free grace produces a glad heart, not a careful one.

But notice the joy is still built on the same foundation the album laid in its first songs. Every crown I tried to wear fell like dust before Your throne. Every kingdom built on pride could not stand Your love alone. This is not happiness that skipped the breaking. It is the joy on the far side of it. The glass cathedral fell, the throne came down, and what is left is not a man with nothing - it is a man head over heels, his voice rising like a song I cannot hide, because the one thing that could never be taken was the only thing he ever actually needed. I was blind, now I see what Your grace has done for me.