With "F@ce Down" being the last song, I never thought about ending with such a hard, trashy song. It just sounds like an industrial funk factory mixed with some elements of rock. I thought that for the next era of my life, the last thing I need to put on that record is something that reflected what it's going to take for me to remain at the top and to acknowledge what it took to get me to rock bottom. So if you look at the lyrics of that song, it explains what happened over the past five years.
I didn't want it to be a ballad like "Make Me Over." I wanted to say, "Not only do I realize the mistakes, not only do I realize I've stepped out of place but I'm on my way back. I'm coming back. This is it. I'm seeing what I need to do to go higher, it's to get low. I was trying to get high when I really needed to get low." I just love that song. "Open confession is good for the soul, my discretion is heated control, watch it – don't take your eyes off the goal, I think in September you'll be back in your pole." I'm basically saying I'm starting again, but give me till September, I should be right back not to just where I was but the Godly, divine, the whole alignment of the structure of what has to happen – kneeling, prostrate.
The Bible says, "If my people will call My name and humble themselves and pray." I say the key to your success is to ask for forgiveness. I say that in the song. Face down seems like the last thing you think you need to do to go higher. It took five years for me to realize that staying on my face before God is really what brings me success. So I want my fans to learn from my mistakes. Stay low. Anybody who walks around with pride is going to get hit with the bullet in the dark first. Those who stay down low, those same bullets will go over the top of their heads.
The lead single off of Unspoken was "Blend." It's a gorgeous song. And you have two mixes: one is remix, which can be found on your MySpace page, and another is the album version. Why didn't you put both versions on the album?
Several remixes will be available on iTunes soon. I didn't put multiple versions on that album because I didn't feel the album needed any more songs. I just felt "Leave it alone and make 'Blend' its own album." Five to six mixes will be available on iTunes on June 2, 2009.
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