[MUSIC PLAYING]
I think just our whole lives we've just
had this desire within us to just help
people and be a light.
Like you look out, and I feel like every day
the world is just getting harder and harder.
There's so many struggles.
And so if we can make just a little difference
by lighting the world with one or a couple songs,
each song will make a difference.
So we think, as imperfect as we are, we can try our very best.
Music can make a big difference on your mood.
So when you're listening to music that isn't that great
or has some words that you don't feel comfortable with,
it just changes your mood.
And definitely songs that have light in them--there are lots
of singers out there that have lots of light when they sing.
We've always loved that.
So we always wanted to be like that, looked up
to those singers.
So when we talk about inspiration,
sometimes songwriters will talk about, like,
a divinely inspired song.
Have you guys ever had an opportunity where
you're writing and you come away from something and you're like,
Boy, that was not me that wrote that.
Who wants to talk about that experience?
Well, I'm just going to say, honestly,
that's kind of how we feel with every song that we do.
Oh, wow.
But one of the coolest experiences
was actually one of our most well-known songs, which
is "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing"
mixed with "Hie to Kolob."
And we actually got to do that with our really good friend
Sarah Young.
And she's really good at the piano.
And it was just like--I don't know, she's good at the piano,
we're good at singing, but we're not like that good.
So, obviously, we know it wasn't, like, from us.
It happened super quickly too.
I don't know if you want to talk a little bit more
about that, because--
Yeah.
We really love those songs.
It was Ari's choice.
She's, like, these are my favorite hymns.
I'm going to mix them.
It's true.
I will claim that.
And that wasn't a thing that was really done,
was mixing hymns or even doing covers of hymns
and putting them on YouTube.
So we were, like, OK, let's go for it.
And so we were trying really hard on it.
And things were flowing, but that last bit where we mix
"Come Thou Fount" and "If You Could Hie to Kolob"--when we
mixed them together, we just really wanted to mix it,
but we couldn't figure it out.
So we stayed up super late one night.
And we just kept trying and trying and trying.
And then all of a sudden, we just came up with it.
And we just knew it wasn't us, because we'd
been trying for hours.
And it wasn't, like, oh, we finally figured it out.
It was like someone helped us.
And even with Sarah playing the piano,
it just all came together.
We went separately and came together.
And just how God could take people
from different households and even in the same family
and just, like, connect us all so
that this song could turn out way more than we ever
could have made it.
Yeah.
I don't know if it's coincidence or not,
but we have the three of you and we also
have Sarah here as well.
Do we think we can maybe get you guys to perform
that number for us?
Let's do it.
For sure.
[MUSIC - ELENYI, "COME THOU FOUNT/IF YOU COULD HIE TO
KOLOB"]
(SINGING) Come Thou fount of every blessing.
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace.
Streams of mercy never ceasing call
for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount--I'm fixed upon it--mount of Thy redeeming
love.
Here I raise mine Ebenezer.
Hither by Thy help I come.
And I hope by Thy good pleasure safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger wandering from the fold of God.
He to rescue me from danger interposed His precious blood.
If you could hie to Kolob in the twinkling of an eye.
And then continue onward with that same speed to fly.
Do you think that you could ever through all eternity
find out the generation where Gods began to be?
Or see the grand beginning where space did not extend.
Or view the last creation where Gods and matter end.
Methinks the Spirit whispers no man has found pure space,
nor seen the outside curtains where nothing has a place.
If you could hie to Kolob in the twinkling of an eye and then--
Come thou fount of every blessing.
--continue onward with that same speed to fly.
Streams of mercy--
Do you think that you could ever--
--never ceasing call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet--
Come thou fount of every blessing.
--sung by flaming tongues above.
If you could hie to Kolob in the twinkling of an eye.
Oh, to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be.
Let Thy goodness like a fetter bind
my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it.
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here's my heart, oh, take and seal it.
Seal it for Thy courts above.
Here's my heart, oh, take and seal it.
Seal it for Thy courts above.