“I Need Help” by Connor Price, Maverick City Music, and Taylor Hill ft. Nick Day || Worship With Me #45

YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/DsTkMh62yk0?si=h2YbUstwKwSK-jib

Today’s song is “I Need Help” by Connor Price, Maverick City Music, and Taylor Hill ft. Nick Day. It was released as a single from Maverick City Music back in 2024.

I cannot find any direct articles that talk about the meaning of the song from Connor Price directly, so let’s roll into my favorite verse.

Right off the bat, we are struck with reality:

I got the weight of the world on my back.

Feet on the table, my balance is bad.

Ain’t got not cape, but I’m fresh off the leash

Everyone’s telling me.

The world is a heavy place. The pressures we face internally from ourselves, or externally from our parents, partners, bosses, friends, and community. It’s a lot. We think we have our sure footing to deal with stress and pressure, but anything can come by in an instant and knock us off our feet. We can get swallowed by reality, and fall into this hole full of anxiety, panic, fear, and disappointment. We start painting the worst-case scenarios of how much we’re “failing” and how those around us will leave us and everything in between. It can lead, and has led, some people to commit self-harming acts to cope with the pain and even commit suicide. It’s a real thing that’s happening in our world consistently. The pressure that we’re raised with (not just current generations, but all generations) to find our place by 18, to make sure we’re married with kids by our 30s, to decide on our college at 16, to find a job at 14 (now I recognize none of this may be prevalent in your culture, but it’s common here in the US.) When we can’t live up to these high expectations, we’re told we’re a failure and we need help. We go to therapy to figure our that God created us differently than the standard and that we need assistance through medications and accessibility resources to do the same things a “normal” person. This is not to stigmatize or generalize mental health, but to show that it’s real. I’ve been in therapy off and on for 10 years now. It’s helped me understand so much about myself. It’s helped me learn that I am not broken or a failure, but a different human that needs some extra help. I’ve worked with teens who experience the same thing I do, but more intensely because of the struggles with their Gen X and Baby Boomer elders and the overwhelming information of social media. I’m not knocking it down, but we do not have a general understanding of things and work towards creating a boundary around it. The song even talks about what the next steps are:

• Step 1: admit to the struggle
• Step 2: search for the solution

Find someone you trust in your community to help you. We weren’t meant to do this alone. It could be your family, friends, church, a counselor/therapist, and God above all.

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