After a string of hugely popular 2026 singles, such as ‘AMAZING!’ with Elevation Worship, ‘make heaven crowded’, ‘demons’ and ‘judas’, Josiah Queen took to social media to given fans the choice of which song he should release next. He shared snippets of ‘sundays’ and ‘when I see you’, and while both drew strong responses from followers, they ultimately requested ‘sundays’ be his next single.

In tandem with the unveiling of ‘sundays’, Queen also surprised fans with the news that he'd be releasing his third studio album, Damascus Road, on October 23rd.

The powerful, uplifting anthem finds Queen reflecting on how he can't live a thriving existence if he compartmentalises and limits the spiritual dimension of his life just for Sundays.

‘sundays’ leans into Queen's signature combination of stomp-and-holler folk and Contemporary Christian Music, with the ‘Dusty Bibles’ hitmaker beginning with some soulful croons across a gentle, stripped-back guitar riff. Then, as he approaches the rousing chorus, the composition builds out with the introduction of a lively banjo and driving, galvanising drums as he reaches the soul-stirring crescendo.

Over the course of ‘sundays’, Queen reflects on the challenges of living a life “in the world” while embracing the divine and striving to walk with Jesus on a day-to-day basis. He considers how some Christians might confine the spiritual parts of their lives to when they go to Church on Sunday, but as Queen explains in ‘sundays’, in reality, he believes we should be inviting Jesus into our lives every morning.

He uses the visceral metaphor of someone who only eats on a Sunday, describing how they would - of course - starve and eventually die. Similarly, if you tried to drive your car without any gas in the tank, it's safe to say you'd soon break down.

Queen is likening the feeling of not being in the presence of God and Jesus daily as that of gradually going hungry and thirsty. He portrays this spiritual relationship as something that refreshes and renews him every day, and that if he only experienced this one day a week, he'd find himself getting spiritually ‘starved’ and ‘parched’.

Later in the song, Queen considers how he feels as though he's been living a “lukewarm” Christian life, standing on the sidelines rather than being full-blooded in his approach to his faith. That has now changed, he underlines, as he determines to incorporate God and Jesus into every element of his life, rather than simply putting them off and only thinking about and connecting with them on Sundays. He touches on Jesus’ crucifixion for everybody's sins, emphasising that, after Jesus gave us His life, the least we can do is give Him ours in return (“I was walking on the line / This world in the divine / But now I'm going in / I'm done standing on the side / You gave me all Your life / Now I will give You mine”).

“I need You like the air that is in my lungs
That sustains my life
I need You like a deer, pants for the water
In a land that's dry

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There's a hunger in my soul
And in my heart, I know

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If you only ate on Sundays
You would starve down to your bones (Ooh)
If you drove your car on empty
You'd never make it home (Ah)
I don't wanna live a stagnant, lukewarm faith
When I gotta give my heart with no restraints
My soul would waste away
If I only ate on Sundays

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I was walking on the line
This world in the divine
But now I'm going in
I'm done standing on the side
You gave me all Your life
Now I will give You mine

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There's a hunger in my soul
Oh, I need You morе and more (Ah)

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I don't want to live a stagnant, lukewarm faith (Ooh)
Whеn I gotta give my heart with no restraints
My soul would waste away
If I only ate on Sundays

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That would be a waste
I don't want my soul to starve away
Oh, Lord

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There's a hunger in my soul
And in my heart, I know

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That if you only ate on Sundays
You would starve down to your bones
If you drove your car on empty
You'd never make it home
I don't want to live a stagnant, lukewarm faith (Ooh)
When I gotta give my heart with no restraints
My soul would waste away
If I only ate on Sundays”

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