Matt Maher

It was an album called The Stories I Tell Myself.

And I recorded it up in Hendersonville, which, yep, wow, a couple people from Hendersonville.

They made the drive.

But I wrote it inspired by the friendship of two amazing legends in country music who lived next door to each other, Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison.

A lot of people don't know that.

They were next door neighbors for like 20 years.

And in the late 60s, two tragedies happened in Roy's life.

His first wife died in a motorcycle accident and about a year and a half later, his house burned down and two of his kids died.

And Johnny came off the road in June to be with their friend and to help him grieve and mourn.

And Johnny eventually bought the land where that house was and he said this phrase, he said, I promise you only good will grow on this land.

And I read that story after I'd been on a retreat with pastors in a house next to that land.

And I was so inspired by the story and, um,

that I kind of kept it in the back of my head.

And I had no idea that about eight months later, I would be making my next album in that house, next to that land.

And the first night we moved my studio into that house, I wrote this song, because I really do think it's our obligation as believers to walk alongside people who are suffering and remind them of the hope and promises of God.

This song's called Only Good Will Grow.

Only good will grow, now and always Holy air to glow, never content Call this place hollow ground

Nothing is forsaken now.

Only good will grow.

Only light will shine on the sacred garden every season.