Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)

On October 23, 2019, Truett, TobyMac's 21-year-old son, was found dead at his home in Nashville of an accidental drug overdose of fentanyl and amphetamines. The inspiration for the song emerged during a challenging period marked not only by the loss of Truett but also by the immediate onset of quarantine, casting a shadow over life as we knew it. Amid this darkness, TobyMac turned to the Psalms and found solace in the words that declared, "God is rolling up His sleeves." (Psalm 98 v1) The vivid imagery struck a chord, transforming his sense of hopelessness into a proclamation. "Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)" reflects the powerful promise that the God of all creation is actively intervening on our behalf, assuring us we aren't forgotten.

Psalm 98:1 (The Message translation) reads: Sing to God a brand-new song. He's made a world of wonders! He rolled up his sleeves, He set things right. "It's like the promise of God - the God of all Creation - rolling up His sleeves on my behalf, on our behalf," explained TobyMac in a video. "It felt like a promise to me. It felt like something a big God that I can count on cares about little me."

TobyMac co-wrote and co-produced "Help Is On The Way (Maybe Midnight)" with former Hawk Nelson guitarist Micah Kuiper. It finds him shifting gears from a string of grief-stricken songs, including "21 Years," "'Faithfully" and "I'm Sorry (A lament)." I've written some songs in quarantine and since my son passed but all of them were really sad," TobyMac told SiriusXM. "All of them really had a 'walk in that dark valley' [feeling]. This is the first song of hope I've written, and it's because I actually grabbed onto some real hope."