The song Control is based on a true story about a girl who struggled with cutting named Brittany Garcia from Broomfield, Colorado. We met her at a camp a few years ago. She was telling her story throughout the week of the camp. Several times people have told me I needed to write a song about cutting. I have always felt that would be a compelling subject for a song as it is an issue that so many people deal with.I had never heard anyone talk about it before so I didn’t know how to write a song about what would compel someone to hurt themselves. To hear Brittany talk about it, my eyes were opened to the fact that cutting is the same as any other addiction. It is the illusion of “control” as she was feeling powerless and such a victim to things in her life that she wanted to take some steps to control her life. So, she started to hurt herself because that was something she was in charge of about herself. The more she did it, eventually cutting had power over her. Only when she submitted to Jesus was she able gain freedom from the addiction.
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