[Spoken 1]
I figure for a loving relationship to be worth something, to love has to be freely chosen, and should be more to do with valuing the happiness of another, or others, and less to do with infatuation or personal gratification.
[Chorus]
Am I your genuine other
Father, mother, sister, brother
Your one and different version
Your independent part and parcel?
[Spoken 2]
I figure for a loving relationship to be meaningful, the choice to not love has to remain an option … and one that is free from fear of consequences. Otherwise one can never be sure that expressions of love are not simply a smoke-screen for self-interest.
[Repeat Chorus]
[Spoken 3]
I figure for a loving relationship to be real there has to be genuine independence between the lovers. It is the choosing to place importance on another’s desires and needs that generates the substance … more so than the experience of being loved or being in love.
[Instrumental]
[Spoken 4]
I figure to love in a way that’s of serious interest to God, it can’t be motivated by desire for liberation or reunion with loved ones in heaven, or tainted in the way a fan loves a celebrity … it needs to be to do with serving God’s happiness above everything else, even at the cost of ones own.
[Repeat Chorus]
[Spoken 5]
So what makes you happy? … I’d like to know.
