Suspended meditative trip hop·82 BPM·Cm·ACIM: holy instant·4:03
"Right here, right now. I am safe somehow."
The Course gives a name to the moment when you stop arguing with reality and let love be the thing in charge. It calls that moment a holy instant. The song lives entirely inside one. The clocks stop ticking, the past falls out of time, and the simple line keeps returning: right here, right now, I am safe somehow.
ACIM connection. The holy instant is the curriculum's hinge. Every other Course teaching points to it. You don't earn it, you don't strive for it, you just become willing. The verses are the busy mind agreeing to that willingness one tiny opening at a time.
No drum kit on this track. Vinyl crackle is the room pulse, occasional rim-tap is the breathing point, Cmaj7 is held through the whole track on tape-worn Rhodes with slow modulation. The friction is busy-versus-still made glitch. The chorus has to feel like the air widening.
Right here, right now I am safe somehow ... I've been living in a storyline of yesterday and fear Playing out the same old scenes, the ones that keep you near Every thought about tomorrow pulls me out of my own skin Chasing and losing what is shining deep within But there's a little open doorway in the middle of my mind Where the clocks all stop their ticking and the past falls out of time If I'm willing now to enter, let the noise fall to the floor I can feel a quiet presence that was always at my core So I let this moment widen Let the edges fall away I don't have to fix the future I don't have to judge today (clear) In the holy instant, I am free Nothing from the past has a hold on me All I ever needed is right here now In the holy instant, I remember how To breathe, to trust, to just be still Letting go of every "must" and "will" In the holy instant, I can see Only love is here with me Every grievance is a tether to a world that isn't kind Every replay of the story is a trap inside the mind But the second I stop fighting, let my busy thinking cease All the shadows lose their power in the simple light of peace I don't need another answer, I don't need another plan A willing little opening to what I really am Every heartbeat is an altar where I'm laying burdens down Every breath a quiet whisper: you are safe right here and now So I let this moment deepen Let the struggle fade away I don't have to hold the world up I can let love lead the way In the holy instant, I am free Nothing from the past has a hold on me All I ever needed is right here now In the holy instant, I remember how To breathe, to trust, to just be still Letting go of every "must" and "will" In the holy instant, I can see Only love is here with me ... Right now, I surrender... Right now, I release Every chain, every story Into this quiet peace Right here, I awaken... Right here, I belong In this silent, shining center I was innocent all along In the holy instant, I am free Nothing from the past has a hold on me All I ever needed is right here now In the holy instant, I remember how To breathe, to trust, to just be still Letting go of every "must" and "will" In the holy instant, I can see Only love is here with me Right here, right now I am safe somehow
Before I Was Anyone by Brian 200. Frequency & Solidarity.