Tenth Ave. North’s aching heart

Last year, Tenth Avenue North won the Dove Award for best new artist and this year the trio won the Dove for song of the year for “By Your Side.” Wow what a ride, but Mike Done­hey is more mod­est.

You know peo­ple ask us all the time what’s it like to be suc­cess­ful and play in front of all these peo­ple. And I say, ‘You don’t under­stand why we write music. We write music because I see these kids who just don’t get it. I write songs to make dis­ci­ples out of them.’ I have this ache in my heart. You can tell when you talk to peo­ple about Jesus … you can see if they get it. And I see these kids and it only increas­es the ache.”

Jason Ingram who co-wrote the song with Done­hey and Philip Larue, said: “I’ve nev­er been around musi­cians who are as pas­sion­ate about God. They are not pur­su­ing music, they are pur­su­ing God.”

Larue also said about the song­writ­ing process: “We write what we want to hear.” Added Done­hey: “A song is like a rela­tion­ship. The hook is the first date and the lyrics is what keeps the rela­tion­ship going.”

And get this the song was writ­ten 2.5 years ago.

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