You Are Everything

Album: Something to Say (2007)
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Songfacts®:

  • This was the most played song on Christian radio in 2008. It was West's second number to earn "Song of the Year" status, following his hit "More" from 2003.
  • This was the first song that West recorded in the studio after recovering from career-threatening vocal surgery.
  • West had already decided what he was going to call the album before he was diagnosed with vocal-cord polyps and was forced to take time off. He explained to Christian Music Today that he felt this was more than coincidence: "The title of my album—people wouldn't believe me if I hadn't told my manager and my record label before the fact that I had already decided to call this album Something to Say months before I found out that I was going to have nothing to say. So when the doctors told me that I would need to go through a season of silence for these songs that were already written, I just saw too much irony to call it a coincidence. I knew God was at work."

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