So my son is 11, my daughter is 29 and my wife is… is… (she’s going to read this)… 39… and they are all telling me I have to check out this new song, “Coming Home” by the rap group Diddy-Dirty Money featuring Skylar Grey on the chorus. Something tells me that if it communicates across the age span I have in my family, it must be pretty special.
What I found was a refreshingly honest self-evaluation full of regret and self-incrimination: “What if the twins ask why I ain’t married to their mom?” and “What if my son stares with a face like my own and says he wants to be like me when he’s grown?”
These are the harsher rap sections of the song that are musically rescued each time by a beautifully melodic chorus sung with a great deal of sensitivity by Skylar Grey: “Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday. I know my kingdom awaits and they’ve forgiven my mistakes, I’m coming home…” The song is basically a musical rendition of how grace and forgiveness cover up our messes.
Home is the mess; home is the loss; home is where I blew it, but home is also the place where forgiveness and grace covers all. So come on home. Embrace it all… Ain’t no place like home.
Song and video:
Song and lyrics:
John Fischer The Catch 
I have to look past my musical preferences and the parent-tapes of my ultra-conservative upbringing to soldier through a rap song. Thank you for finding the good in this. I hear God’s truth about forgiveness and think He is using every venue to call it forth, even if it isn’t dressed in the Sunday morning liturgy and language of my pseudo-sanitized childhood. Ann Voskamp also calls me out over at (in)Courage http://is.gd/EgOoKX with the equally troubling question: “If forgiveness isn’t central to our faith, is our faith really Christian?” Thanks for posting.
Wow. That is a great song. Thanks for posting it. For me one of the most “telling” phrases was “I’m a guest in my own home”. How often I feel that way, just from my own mishandling of things or ignoring things, not to mention sin. That one line really struck me.
We have actually used the chorus from this song during Sunday morning worship a couple of times. It was an interesting bridge between 2 contemporary praise and worship songs.
i’ll add another Wow, becauz i was very much moved by this song! thanx 4 posting it brother John… I also jus loved how everything in the Catch isn’t always taught in the traditional way and methods…
I love it when people (Christians) can look past “the music/artist” and glean wisdom from lyrics! Didn’t Paul say something about being all things to all people by that some may be saved? I’m sending this to my 22 yr old son. He will be a dad in a few days.
Thanks, Teri
Yes. He also said to focus on what is good, right, true, etc. and there is a lot of that in this song.
Thank you so much for posting this! It brought tears of joy to my eyes as I and the Spirit were in agreement of Heaven here and now by God’s grace even through the harsh realities of life that we often bring on ourselves.