Story Behind The Song

I wrote this song in the hours after asking my now-wife, then-girlfriend, to marry me.

Song Description

The Great Unknown: the vast ocean of opportunity, challenge, fear, faith, and risk that our choices present us with. Staring a big, important decision right in the face and choosing to move forward, not timidly, but jumping right in - this is plunging in

Lyrics

It?s kind of hard to tell what I?m feeling
in fact I?m scared as hell.
Ever since those words, my head?s been reeling,
But you?re the only thing that?s real.

I?d forgotten what it was to be deciding
And so I made no choice at all
But underneath this fear my love?s been hiding
I decided to take the fall, into

The Great Unknown ? where I abandon my alone.
I let go of control. Into this sea I am thrown, I am thrown.

There?s a thousand things that spin in this abyss -
A thousand ways to go.
There?s a million more I thought I might miss.
But one I did not know?it was

The Great Unknown ? where our lives are not our own.
We let go of the reigns and plunge into our way. This is our way.

And there?s a pain in giving most of what you have
and a meloncholy wall.
But the joy will only come to you at last
when you decide to give it all, into

The Great Unknown ? and yet you feel like this is home.
But I?ve never seen this place, only it?s fleeting trace
that led me into the Great Unknown?..