Undone (Mercy Me Album)
Undone is the third studio album by Christian rock band MercyMe. It was produced by Pete Kipley and released on April 20, 2004 on INO Records. Following the success of MercyMe's previous studio efforts, they were given significantly more resources with which to develop the album and brought in a sixth member, guitarist Barry Graul. Unlike the band's previous songwriting style, which was to write the lyrics first, they wrote the music for the songs on the album before writing the lyrics. The album has a pop rock and adult contemporary sound, while the lyrics are personal and convey Christian themes.
Undone received generally favorable reviews from critics with many praising the album's personal style, although some critics argued the album's songwriting and sound were too similar to MercyMe's previous efforts. It won the GMA Dove Award for Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year at the 36th GMA Dove Awards. In the United States, Undone debuted at number twelve on the Billboard 200 and at number one on the Billboard Christian Albums chart, selling over 55,000 copies in its first week. It spent a total of two weeks atop the Christian Albums chart and was the fifth-best selling Christian album of 2004 and the fourteenth best-selling Christian album of 2005. Undone has sold over 627,000 albums in the United States and was the thirty-eighth best-selling Christian album of the 2000s.
Three official singles were released from Undone. "Here with Me", the album's lead single, was released to Christian and mainstream radio, peaking at number one on the Billboard Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts as well as at number twelve on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The second single from the album, "Homesick", peaked at number three on the Billboard Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts and at number nine on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. The third single, "In The Blink Of An Eye", peaked at number one on the Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts.
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Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
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I had not thought death had undone so many.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)