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Chapters · Chapter 60

Love That Always Was

A stranger who felt familiar before there was any reason to. The song tries fate, chance, and destiny as explanations and finds none of them adequate. Meeting her felt less like a beginning than a return. Sits with the recognition songs in the catalog, alongside Our Spirits Touched and I Lived a Thousand Nights.

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About the song

Cinematic spiritual orchestral ballad. Spoken intro over solo cello and distant flute, strings, choir, and drums building to a full crescendo, then falling away to flute, violin, and soft piano.

Themes: Soul recognition · Before the beginning · Coming home

Voice: Male Voice (baritone), solo


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