Joyful trip hop, communion-postured·82 BPM·Bm·ACIM: holy relationship·4:34
"Let me see you as the light. Not a body, not a fight."
The Course makes a sharp distinction between a special relationship (one built on need, bargain, and scorekeeping) and a holy relationship (one whose purpose is to remember love together). The song is the moment a special relationship is willing to become a holy one. You lay your needs at the altar, you ask for something more than the contract you were running.
ACIM connection. The holy relationship is one of the Course's most demanding teachings. It does not ask you to leave the relationship. It asks you to stop using it. The chorus is the prayer: "Let me see you as my own. Not my savior, not my victim, but a self I've never known."
Joyful trip hop at 80 BPM half-time with a smile in the pocket. Em with bright color chords. Warm dusty kick, brushed snare with vinyl crackle, soft tambourine on chorus offbeats, fingerpicked acoustic on verse turnarounds. Solo judgment in the verses versus harmony union on the chorus: the production teaches the lesson.
Let me see you as the light Not a body, not a fight ... We've been trading expectations, keeping score in silent ways Wanting you to fill the spaces that my fear of lack has made Every promise that I asked for had a hidden little price If you gave me what I wanted, I would call it love and nice But beneath the push and pulling, there's a deeper, softer call Not to use each other's presence, but to let the lines all fall To remember we are brothers, not two strangers on a line To let every single moment serve a higher love than mine So I lay my needs before the altar Ask for something more than this Not a special, fragile bargain But a shared and endless gift (clear) Holy relationship, let me see you as my own Not my savior, not my victim, but a self I've never known Holy relationship, let our hearts be used for peace Every word and every silence as a way for love to speak Holy relationship, let me join with you in truth Let the roles we played fall open to the light that shines in you I've been looking at your body like it's all you really are Judging every move you make from a distance in my heart But there's something shining through you that the eyes can't really see If I let my judgments soften, I can feel that same in me When I offer you forgiveness, when I choose to drop the past We become a single doorway where the fear can't seem to last Every time I choose for union over being right and small This relationship turns holy and it lifts us from the fall So I lay my needs before the altar Ask for something more than this Not a special, fragile bargain But a shared and endless gift Holy relationship, let me see you as my own Not my savior, not my victim, but a self I've never known Holy relationship, let our hearts be used for peace Every word and every silence as a way for love to speak Holy relationship, let me join with you in truth Let the roles we played fall open to the light that shines in you ... Take the fear, take the need to win Take the plans that kept us small and thin Use this love as a window wide Where the world can see the light inside Holy relationship, let me see you as my own Not my savior, not my victim, but a self I've never known Holy relationship, let our hearts be used for peace Every word and every silence as a way for love to speak Holy relationship, let me join with you in truth Let the roles we played fall open to the light that shines in you Let me see you as the light Not a body, not a fight
Before I Was Anyone by Brian 200. Frequency & Solidarity.