The music is an old 70s church record that I stole the intro for, and looped. I never saw Mike and Kevin laugh so hard, they were all crying! I was making fun of the pastor at my church because that is what he sounded like when he would sing.

Toby and Kevin wanted it on the record, and DC Talk never offered any explanation about the track. They all kept it a secret.

Track 10: “In the Light” (Listen)
TC: We had a massive amount of respect for Charlie Peacock. We made the song with a live band and we did some light programming and orchestral arrangements. That song is a huge, epic song, and Charlie is in it at the end. We were trying to make an even better version of his song.

Kevin, to this day, has unbelievable control over his voice, almost like a jazz musician has over his instrument. He has a really unique ability to sing ad-libs that are very sophisticated in tone and execution, but were still simple enough for the average knuckle-head to do. He did these ad-libs that were almost like listening to a guitar solo—genius song-crafting.

KM: Peacock was one of the first artists I saw as a Christian musician. Back when we were at Liberty University, nobody really knew what Christian music was. Toby and Mike understood it more than I did. I was listening to The Smiths, David Bowie, The Cure, Duran Duran—I didn’t know anything that was happening in Christian music. One of the first tours we did was overseas in Europe with Charlie Peacock, The 77’s, and Rez Band, and I remember watching Charlie Peacock and saying “Wow, this is great music. So Christian music is a valid art form.” He’s still, in my opinion, one of the best Christian artists of all time.

What adding his song did for the album was give it a moment to just kind of take a deep breath and a sigh, and get back to a more acoustic feel. It’s a song that’s about paradise and heaven, and talking about imperfections and being human. If there’s any song on the record that kind of feels like a moment where everything turned around, that’s the song.

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