The Lovers

My question for you is, can you love like me?

Today is a birthday of sorts.

At the end of the last year, I got a message from a music producer named Grayson Cain. He said he’d found my music on Bandcamp, liked my voice, and wanted to collaborate.

Now, see, I’m very picky about who I collaborate with. But when I listened to the demo tracks he sent over, I knew there was something special here, eager to be co-created.

So for the past few months, we’ve been sending files back and forth, laying the groundwork, refining the vision…

We chose the name “Achroma Flux” to honor both our names (“Achroma” for Alicen GREY and GRAY-son Cain, and “Flux” to acknowledge the dynamic, flowing nature of our collaboration).

We named the song “The Lovers” like the infamous major arcana card.

And now, here it is:

“The Lovers” by Achroma Flux

You can also find the song on Spotify,

iTunes, Amazon Music, and more.

See all song links here: https://hypeddit.com/achromaflux/thelovers

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Lyrics:

i made the darkness, i made the light
i made you a paradise, you didn’t like
i made you the ruler, over it all
you made me a monster and chose to fall

when the one who loves you
changes their mind
when the hand that reached for you
robs you blind
when the voice that blessed you
delivers a curse
come on, do your worst

you won’t get far
you’re looking at exactly what you are

my question for you is, can you love like me?
see what i’m made of and still believe?
meet my dark side and want to see
more of me?

you call me the water, the giver of life
then you call me the fire, blazing higher and higher and higher and higher and higher
whether wave or flame, i’m going to rise
i’m going to test you, over time
let’s see what part of you survives,
and which was a liar

when the one who loves you
changes their mind
when the hand that reached for you
robs you blind
when the voice that blessed you
delivers a curse
come on, do your worst

you won’t get far
you’re looking at exactly what you are

my question for you is, can you love like me?
see what i’m made of and still believe?
meet my dark side and want to see
more of me
more of me
more of me
more of me?

achromaflux.com

Can you love like me?

I wrote the lyrics inspired by this controversial Bible verse, Isaiah 45:7 KJV —

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil:
I the LORD do all these things.

Though the KJV translation of this verse is largely considered errant (and God could more accurately said to have created “calamity”), I admit, I did enjoy contemplating the possibility that God creates evil, rather than merely allowing it (as God-sympathizers, like myself, often contend).

This contemplation weaves nicely into my views on the The Garden of Eden in Genesis. God essentially created paradise for Adam and Eve, but they chose to believe — for no discernible reason — that God was evil, and was hiding knowledge from them. I elaborate on that in this sermon:

So then I thought,
if God can still love us abundantly, despite how much we’ve cursed and rejected God…
and the Christ path is about becoming like God, if not unified with God…

can we love like God?

And what would that entail?!

It sounds like work.
Deep, scary work.
You might even call it… Shadow Work 😉

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You can check out more of Grayson’s solo work here: graysoncain.com

As always, loveling, thanks for listening. 🩶

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