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So, Imma talk about my dad, my father Well, let me start off by saying my mom is the most amazing person I know I just wanna make sure, you know, my dad's not the one getting all the love I'm one of eight siblings and we're all somehow involved in full-time ministry which is amazing in itself And I attribute that to my mom And for my dad's 70th birthday party My mom called me and asked me to write a song for my dad And I remember saying to her, "umm, Mom, writing songs ain't just that easy", you know So I decided, obviously, I'm gonna sit down and try to do this And basically all the songs on this project I wrote them in a very difficult season of my life So it's like every song is kinda laced with pain Or at least written from a painful place When I said on my piano to write this song It just came rushing into my head probably faster than any song I've ever written And this one is also laced with pain Cause the chorus says And when times got hard You taught me how to worship God I'm talking about my dad I feel the need to explain I just feel the need to explain one line in the song so that everyone that listens isn't totally lost There's a line in the pre-chorus that says But you placed inside of me SongtexteA storm-kit that I've held on to My own proverbial red blanket When I first sang this song to my siblings, they immediately knew what I was referring to When I was little, I remember coming downstairs and, you know, in the middle of the night to use the bathroom And I remember seeing my dad in the living room on his knees praying and he always had this red blanket wrapped around him He called it his prayer blanket And I remember him saying to me as a child that the red was for the blood of Jesus This song is just an emotional song for me I remember while I was writing it Shedding a couple of tears as I was singing it So I just decided, man, I gotta record this So here's Red Blanket/When Times Got Hard Aus Songtexte Mania