Six-time Grammy Award winner Amy Grant recently released a new song, "How Do We Get There From Here," a duet with 2x Song of the Year Grammy Award nominee Ruby Amanfu.
Amy co-wrote the song with Amanfu in the wake of the 2023 Covenant school shooting in Nashville. The song wrestles with grief, accountability, and the urgent question of how to move forward in an increasingly divided world.
"Could any of this fighting be worth these children's lives?" Grant poses a question in the song, with Amanfu adding, "When the ink dries on our story / What will history reveal / Will we have been part of the problem / Or a part of how we heal?"
"After six beautiful people, including a longtime friend of mine, were killed in the Covenant school shooting, several artists met with legislators in Nashville," Grant, a 2022 Kennedy Center Honoree, said. "In the wake of that gridlock, we kept asking ourselves, how can we identify and reach a common goal? How can we move beyond what divides us? Unity is not sameness. Unity is standing together in spite of our differences. Ruby and I hope our song 'How Do We Get There From Here' can fan the flame of hope to create a safer space for all of us to push beyond our differences for the greater good."
"Linking arms with Amy Grant to co-write 'How Do We Get There From Here' was born out of the knowledge that sometimes forward motion can feel like walking through mud in boots too big for our feet…but we still have to take a first step, then another, and another after that," Amanfu added.
"Our song is a call to come together on an issue that has divided our nation—but an issue that we have to do more about because the truth is that doing little to nothing hasn't kept us safe. This song asks a simple but really difficult question: what would happen if we chose compassion first? Could it open a door that has been barricaded shut on both sides? Could we take down one brace at a time until the door finally opens?"
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