Kirk Whalum Blog
July 29, 2010
#GATJ3 Track by Track -- “It’s What I Do” feat. @LalahHathaway
“It’s What I Do” – I wanted to write something for Lalah that featured her in that intimate, old, smoky jazz club setting, with the drummer “swishing” his brushes on the snare and the upright bass whining down low. Jerry Peters and I started the song with the idea of God reminding us that it’s a waste of time to ever try and figure out why or how God could love us. He simply says,
It’s ‘cause you’re mine.
It’s ‘cause you’re you.
It’s ‘cause I’m Love.
It’s what I do.
I once heard that God says to us in essence: “There’s nothing you can do to make me love you any more… nothing you can do to make me love you any less. This is the saying I recited to my kids many nights as I tucked them in. I’m their “Abba.” He’s ours.
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