Steven Curtis Chapman just dropped a brand-new song, “Together (We’ll Get Through This),” with Brad Paisley, Lauren Alaina and Tasha Cobbs Leonard. Steven felt compelled to write the song when he saw how much the world was struggling with the restrictions associated with the coronavirus pandemic. “Together” became Seven’s message of hope he wanted to share with others.

“I’m always prone to process my whatever’s going on in the world and how it’s affecting me with a song,” Steven told Everything Nash. “The world’s going through devastation. I’m watching people, just seeing a look in their eyes of, ‘Am I ever going to survive this? Am I ever going to smile again and is the sun ever going to shine again?’ I know that feeling. And so when something connects deeply with me, I process it with a song. Obviously you couldn’t be breathing and have a pulse and not be deeply affected by what’s going on in the world, the last two months.”

Steven had the idea that the unifying song, which says in part, “Together we’ll get through this / Together no matter what it is / There’s no valley too deep, no river too wide / No mountain too steep, we can’t climb / Together, we got all we need / Together, just watch and see / We’re gonna make it come what may, we’re gonna make it come what may / Together,” needed more than one voice on it. His first thought was Brad, but he was unsure if the country music superstar would agree to sing on the song with him.

“I didn’t know him well at all,” Steven admitted. “I’ve met him on a couple of occasions, and we shared a dressing room about two years ago at a Glen Campbell memorial concert, after he passed away. For both Brad and me as guitar players and singers, he was kind of the gold standard. He was the guy. We just started talking about our love for Glen Campbell and his playing and singing and we kind of bonded over that, just sitting in the dressing room and said one of these days we should do something together. I was surprised to find out he was aware of my music and was a fan.”

Still, Steven might have never asked Brad if not for the encouragement of Steven’s wife, Mary Beth, who urged him to reach out. Once he did, and Brad heard the song, he quickly agreed, as did Lauren Alaina and Tasha Cobbs Leonard. Although Steven hand-picked the three singers to join him, he was still blown away when he heard “Together” with everyone’s voice on it for the first time.

“It was pretty incredible,” Steven recalled. “When I listened to it, even now it sort of feels like,God had his fingerprints on this track, that this makes sense and isn’t just a big mess of a bunch of people singing. It’s  really a cool thing.”

Steven hopes the song resonates with people across genres, not for himself, but so he can impart at least a little bit of hope, through “Together,” while the coronavirus pandemic continues.

“I want to kick the door open and get a little more light in,” Steven acknowledged. “If there’s a little bit of goodness, could I fan that flame with a song to just say what we all know? That’s not a big mystery or any big surprise to us. We do need each other. We’re made for relationships. That’s what we are created for. I believe. I’ve written a lot of songs about our relationship, first of all with our Maker, with our Creator, but then with each other. That’s kind of the whole point.

“And so something like this,” he added, “which is strange in that in this time of isolation and social distancing, the thing that I think we’re realizing –– I know I am ––it’s how much we need each other.”

“Together (We’ll Get Through This)” is available to stream or download here. Proceeds will benefit the Opry Trust Fund and Gospel Music Association to help those impacted by coronavirus.

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