Losing by Tenth Avenue North

Album: The Struggle (2012)

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This is the first single from the Christian band Tenth Avenue North's third album, The Struggle. Their lead singer Mike Donehey told us about the track: "We got a bunch of letters to a radio station, and almost all of them dealt with this idea of struggling with forgiveness. So we wrote a song called 'Losing,' about how when you forgive people it actually feels like you're losing. But that's what we're called to do, called to absorb more pain than we inflict. But to give grace actually means someone has to die. Spiritually speaking, you have to take that pain in order to get back mercy, you have to absorb the pain of defense."

Donehey adds that a theme of the album is "empowering people in the midst of temptation."

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