Meditative trip hop·78 BPM·Dm·The steady center·4:27
"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing true can fall apart."
The song is the practice of resting in a single idea: that whatever is actually real about you cannot be threatened by anything in the world. The headlines flicker and the chest goes static, and the chorus stays steady.
The verses catalogue what tries to threaten the steady center (money, fame, shadows on the wall, faces and bodies that change). The chorus rests in the part that does not.
Verses hold without drums on a Dm suspended cycle. Tape-worn Rhodes, warm pad bed, dub sub-bass felt on the long ones, vinyl crackle as room pulse. Drums enter only on the chorus declaration. Piano-anchor under the glitch is the whole texture: a steady frame the noise cannot move.
Nothing real can be threatened Nothing true can fall apart ... Headlines flicker in the midnight glow Telling me the things I need to know Money, fame, and shadows on the wall I chase them down and still feel small But underneath the static in my chest There's a deeper, quiet kind of rest A little spark the world can't steal A steady light that feels more real So I close my tired eyes Let the noise roll out like tide There's a whisper in the dark Speaking straight into my heart (clear) Nothing real can be threatened Nothing true can fall apart Love remains when all has faded I am safe inside that heart Nothing real can be threatened I am held in what won't break Every face and body's gonna change Every story rearranged But the one who's watching from within Doesn't wear a mask or shed a skin Even when the ground begins to move There's a center that won't lose When I rest in that quiet place Every fear begins to lose its face So I lay these worries down Let them melt into the sound Hear that whisper in the dark Speaking straight into my heart Nothing real can be threatened Nothing true can fall apart Love remains when all has faded I am safe inside that heart Nothing real can be threatened I am held in what won't break ... Show me what is true right now... Only love is here somehow Take this fear I'm clinging to It was never even true Guide my eyes to what can last Let the restless moment pass Only love is real to me Only love is what I see Nothing real can be threatened Nothing true can fall apart Love remains when all has faded I am safe inside that heart Nothing real can be threatened I am held in what won't break Nothing real can be threatened Nothing true can fall apart
Inspired by the Course's opening idea, from A Course in Miracles.
Before I Was Anyone by Brian 200. Frequency & Solidarity.