With a voice steeped in the traditions of gospel shouters and traveling bluesmen, Millsap lets his character wrangle with some of Christianity's contradictions – the kind of love that feels right to him is forbidden by the church, but he still wonders " what Jesus meant, when he said all love was heaven sent." He pleads with his father that he just wants to make him proud, backed by the swelling strings and thunderous drums of the chorus. It's an experiment that could go horribly sideways, an ostensibly straight man playing the role of a gay man trying to mend a rift with his religious father, but Millsap's empathetic approach holds it together. " Raised me straight and raised me true," Parker Millsap sings right at the top of "Heaven Sent," a standout track from The Very Last Day.
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