If You Must Take Someone

If You Must Take Someone is a dark, sorrow-soaked blues-gospel song about grief reaching the point where anger, love and faith become impossible to separate.

It follows someone exhausted by loss, questioning why so many people they love have been taken and pleading for the suffering to stop. Rather than asking for protection for himself, he offers his own life in exchange for theirs.

Raw, bitter and deeply emotional, the song captures the helplessness of bereavement, the rage of unanswered prayer and the desperate instinct to protect the people who remain.