‘How Do We Get There From Here?’: Amy Grant’s Haunting Question to a Divided Nation
Six-time GRAMMY winner Amy Grant has made her long-awaited return to original songwriting with “How Do We Get There From Here,” a stirring new single released exactly three years after the Covenant school shooting that shook Nashville to its core. Co-written and performed with Ruby Amanfu—a two-time GRAMMY Song of the Year nominee—the track marks Grant’s first release of original material in over a decade, and it arrives not with fanfare alone, but with the weight of collective sorrow and the fierce ache of unanswered questions. “Could any of this fighting be worth these children’s lives?” Grant sings, her voice carrying the same warmth that has defined her career, now tempered by grief. Amanfu’s verse deepens the reckoning: “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?” Together, they have crafted something rare in contemporary music: a prayer wrapped in a plea, a meditation on accountability that refuses to look away.
What began as a raw response to the loss of six lives—including a longtime friend of Grant’s—has since expanded into a broader reflection on division itself. In the months following the shooting, Grant joined a coalition of artists who stood before the Tennessee General Assembly, calling for gun reform. When legislative gridlock followed, the question that lingered was not about policy alone, but about the deeper fissures that make progress feel impossible. “Unity is not sameness,” Grant reflects. “Unity is standing together in spite of our differences.” Amanfu echoes that sentiment, describing the song as a first step through mud in boots too big for our feet—an acknowledgment that forward motion is hard, but impossible alone. With “How Do We Get There From Here,” Grant and Amanfu do not pretend to have answers. Instead, they offer something perhaps more valuable: a willingness to sit in the tension, to ask the hard question aloud, and to suggest that the door barricaded shut on both sides might yet open—one brace removed at a time.
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