For many of my songs, I try and go against the grain of normal thinking about familiar Bible Stories. The idea for A Cave in Bethlehem came from the fact that many of the stables in the region where Jesus was born were caves instead of the wooden structures we see in modern nativity scenes. I also thought about the barns and stables that I have been in. They are not clean environments. Just the thought of putting a baby in a manger with hay isn’t something we would want to do today.