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This is the story behind an album that translates medieval mysticism into a modern sonic pilgrimage. The project takes Beatrice of Nazareth’s Seven Manners of Holy Love and remaps them as seven immersive tracks. Below, the traditional meaning of each manner is explained, followed by how TATANKA renders it into music — and why this reimagining matters for listeners today.

Beatrice’s Seven Manners

Beatrice of Nazareth (13th century) named seven manners — distinct modes in which divine love is experienced by the soul. These are not a strict ladder but living, overlapping expressions of how love acts and transforms.

  1. Love that wounds — A piercing of the heart: sweet pain that awakens the soul to longing for God.
  2. Love that burns — A consuming flame of zeal and devotion that intensifies spiritual desire.
  3. Love that tastes — God experienced as sweetness and nourishing delight.
  4. Love that melts — Tenderness that dissolves the hardened self, softening the heart into surrender.
  5. Love that runs and does not rest — A restless, active love that moves outward in service and zeal.
  6. Love that cannot be contained — Overflowing love, beyond measure or words, pouring outward.
  7. Love that is all-consuming — The consummation: the soul utterly absorbed in God, where only love remains.

TATANKA’s seven-part reimagining

TATANKA translates each manner into a distinct sound-world and lyrical portrait, sung in a luminous divine feminine voice. The album frames the seven as a progressive, emotional arc—an invitation to move from ignition through transformation to union.

  1. The Flame of Devotion — The moment of piercing: a spatial, spacey opening track that portrays the first wound of longing, a spark that makes the heart aware.
  2. The Hunger of Longing — Restlessness deepens; earthly sweetness fades. The music becomes hunger—minimal, taut, insistently yearning.
  3. Ecstasy of Ascent — Joy lifts the self; sound expands upward. Orchestral swells and breathy vocals evoke flight and lightness.
  4. The Alchemy of Grace — Surrender as transformation: textures shift, the voice submits and is reshaped; humility and renewal are rendered as warm, intimate timbres.
  5. The Torrent of Bliss — Overwhelming presence. Sweet and unbearably intense, this track pours like a flood—too much, and precisely what the soul longed for.
  6. The Stillness of Communion — After the torrent, a quiet settling: river-like flow, silence that is full. The music rests; the soul rests.
  7. The Eternal Embrace — Union made song: separation dissolves, only love remains. The final track closes the loop in a spacious, unitive sound.

Each piece uses modern production—ambient pads, trance-like space, layered whispers, and cinematic dynamics—so the listener feels the manners rather than simply contemplates them.

Why this reimagining matters — TATANKA’s rationale

  • To translate, not replace. Beatrice’s manners were mystical descriptions. TATANKA translates those modes into felt experience, turning intellectual categories into emotional and bodily encounters through sound.
  • To create a pilgrimage. Beatrice’s manners circulate and overlap; framed sequentially, they form a journey that suits the album format—an arc listeners can travel in one sitting.
  • To make the archaic immediate. Medieval mystical language can be distant for modern audiences. The album renders the same existential yearning in contemporary idiom—sonic textures, cinematic space, and direct, sensory lyrics.
  • To restore the feminine voice. Beatrice was a woman mystic. The album centers a divine feminine vocalist, returning her lineage to the foreground and giving the mystic’s insight a living voice.
  • To use present tools as sacrament. TATANKA deliberately employs modern tools—AI-assisted composition, digital production, layered electronics—as instruments of devotion, arguing that technology can be an avenue for sacred expression.
  • To universalize the encounter. While rooted in a Christian mystical text, the album speaks in universal registers—longing, transformation, ecstasy, rest—so listeners across paths can inhabit the same interior movements.

A short listening guide

  • Listen start-to-finish to experience the intended arc: ignition → yearning → ascent → transformation → overflow → rest → union.
  • Sit with each track more than once. The composer designs the music to reveal extra layers on repeated listens—subtle harmonics, whispered lines, and shifts in texture that mirror inner change.
  • Use headphones for the spatial mixes; the production places the “divine feminine” voice within a three-dimensional field meant to simulate interiors of the heart.

Mannerisms

This album is a deliberate attempt to carry a medieval mystical map into the sonic language of our time. TATANKA does not reduce Beatrice’s theology; instead, they translate her manners into experiences people can touch, hear, and live. For listeners who hunger for depth beyond slogans and playlists, this project offers a pilgrimage: seven manners of love, remade as music, leading toward a final, unitive embrace.


“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.”
— Julian of Norwich

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The Seven Manners of Holy Love: Translating Beatrice of Nazareth into a Modern Sonic Pilgrimage

The Seven Manners of Holy Love—Beatrice of Nazareth’s thirteenth-century mapping of the soul’s encounter with God—has been reimagined by contemporary artists as a multi-layered album that moves listeners from longing to union. This article introduces five subtopics that illuminate the work and its modern reimagining: (1) the historical life and authorship of Beatrice and her Seven Ways, (2) the theological and poetic contours of “holy love” and bridal mysticism, (3) the practical process of translating medieval mystical texts into music and sound design, (4) the role and character of the “divine feminine” voice in performance and production, and (5) how modern listening practices and a short listening guide make this pilgrimage meaningful for contemporary audiences. Each subtopic below is explored in depth so the reader can both understand Beatrice’s original contribution and appreciate the reasons a modern project like TATANKA’s album is culturally and spiritually resonant.

Historical Context: Beatrice of Nazareth and the Seven Ways

Beatrice of Nazareth (c. 1200–1268) was a Flemish Cistercian nun whose writings—especially the tract often titled the Seven Ways (or Seven Manners) of Holy Love—stand among the earliest vernacular mystical texts in the Low Countries. Her voice emerges from a world of Latin theological learning and a growing vernacular devotional culture; she wrote about lived experience and used accessible language to describe profound interior movement. Scholars credit the Seven Ways with shaping later bridal-mystic language in the Rhineland and Brabant and with anticipating motifs found in later mystics who also foreground love as the driving force of union. While some of Beatrice’s texts survive only in medieval adaptations and later copies, her influence is visible across a web of devotional writing that values affect, intimacy, and the imagery of bride and bridegroom. Understanding Beatrice’s historical situation—her convent life, visionary episodes, and literary milieu—helps modern listeners hear the album not as anachronistic homage but as a living continuation of a female mystic tradition.

Beatrice’s Seven Ways organizes the soul’s journey into seven “manners” or modes of divine love: from purifying and painful longing, through intense consuming union, to an eternal, unitive love that leaves nothing but love itself. This pattern is both psychological and liturgical: it names interior movements (wounding, burning, tasting, melting, running, overflowing, consuming) that are recognizable across mystical literature. In medieval devotional practice these movements were not abstract categories but guides for prayer, liturgy, and spiritual direction; they shaped how communities named and supported the spiritual trajectories of members. The list’s adaptability—its ability to be read as stages, cycles, or coexisting states—makes it an excellent template for musical development, because sound can simultaneously embody pain, sweetness, and ecstatic silence. Reading these seven manners historically therefore prepares us to see how an album might map tone, texture, and form onto a mystical itinerary.

Finally, historically-minded listeners should note that Beatrice’s composition in the vernacular was significant: it made deep mystical reflection available beyond clerical Latin and shifted the emphasis to experiential language (“minne” or love) rather than scholastic abstraction. The rediscovery and attribution of the Seven Ways (and the subsequent scholarly attention) also remind us that medieval women’s spirituality circulated in networks—convents, beguine houses, and local communities—so that what sounds like an individual voice is in fact a communal resource. Modern projects that appropriate or retranslate Beatrice must therefore balance artistic creativity with historical sensitivity: preserving the original’s emphasis on love and interiority while being transparent about adaptation. In other words, a respectful musical translation keeps the tract’s heart—its insistence that love both wounds and heals—central to the new work.

Theological Themes: Bridal Mysticism, “Minne,” and the Shape of Love

At the theological center of Beatrice’s tract is bridal mysticism: the soul understood as bride and God as bridegroom. This metaphor concentrates erotic, domestic, and covenantal language into a discourse of intimate belonging. In the Seven Ways, “minne” (a Middle Dutch term often rendered as “holy love”) functions as both desire and gift—an affective reality that shapes moral choice, contemplative practice, and communal formation. That the metaphors are bodily—wounds, taste, melting—allows readers and listeners to grasp spiritual transformation as somatic and affective, not only intellectual. For a musician or lyricist, these embodied metaphors provide direct inspiration for timbre, rhythm, and dynamic: pain becomes minor-key tension, sweetness becomes warm sustained tones, and melting becomes gradual harmonic resolution. Reading the Seven Ways theologically therefore requires attending to its eroticized language while remembering those images aim at union, transformation, and greater ethical responsiveness.

Beatrice’s theology is also relational: love is not merely an inward state but a movement outward toward service and transformation. Several of the manners describe a love that “runs and does not rest” or “cannot be contained”—images that push the soul into acts of charity, witness, and communal care. This makes the Seven Ways relevant to contemporary spiritual conversations about the social consequences of mystical experience: authentic union, in her schema, generates compassion rather than self-centered bliss. For contemporary projects, foregrounding this outward motion helps guard against readings that romanticize inner states while ignoring ethical outcomes. Thus, the album’s narrative arc from wound to union can and should suggest not only personal consolation but the renewal of love in the broader world. :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}

A final theological point is Beatrice’s insistence that suffering and longing have place within a loving economy: wounds are not mistakes but openings. This paradox—pain as pathway—underwrites many mystical traditions (and helps explain why medieval mystics used such intense imagery). For modern listeners who may expect either a therapy-style “feel-good” spirituality or a dry doctrinal lesson, the Seven Ways introduces a middle path: honest encounter with human fracture that is nevertheless ordered toward healing and transformation. Musicians translating this theology can use contrast—harsh textures resolving into luminous harmonies—to mirror this dynamic theologically and aesthetically. The result is an art that treats spiritual pain with seriousness while insisting on hope.

Translating Text to Sound: Process, Choices, and Ethical Considerations

Turning a medieval mystical map into an album requires decisions on form, language, and sonic metaphor. Practically, composers must decide whether to keep literal lines of text, paraphrase theological motifs into lyric, or create purely instrumental soundscapes that echo affective states. Each choice carries implications: literal text offers close reading and historical fidelity; paraphrase allows accessibility and poetic freedom; instrumental renditions can evoke interiority without doctrinal commitment. The TATANKA project described in your attached materials uses a hybrid approach—retaining thematic fidelity while composing new lyric and sonic environments—so listeners receive both faithful echoes of Beatrice and an original, contemporary sensibility. When artists make these choices explicit in liner notes or press materials, they respect the source while inviting the listener into a co-created imaginative space.

Technically, sound designers can map the seven manners onto musical devices: piercing harmonics and dissonance for “love that wounds,” incremental tempo increases and insistent ostinatos for “love that runs,” lush reverb and chordal expansion for “ecstasy of ascent,” and sparse, crystalline textures for “stillness of communion.” Instrumentation plays a role: analog drones and low-frequency hums can embody earthbound sorrow, while orchestral swells, choral pads, and high-register vocal flourishes represent ascent and union. Spatial mixing—binaural panning, wide reverb, and layered whisper tracks—can simulate the “three-dimensional” heart-space that Beatrice describes. These technical choices are not merely aesthetic; they create an embodied listening environment that invites repetition, meditation, and active engagement with the mystical material.

Ethically, contemporary artists working with medieval spiritual texts should credit sources, avoid flattening historical nuance, and be attentive to appropriative pitfalls—especially when translating Christian devotional forms into secular contexts or fusing them with non-Christian practices. This is not an argument against creative adaptation but for transparent curation: explain what is borrowed, what is transformed, and why. Projects like TATANKA’s that include a listening guide, citation to the original tract, and context about Beatrice’s life model a responsible practice that educates while it inspires. Responsible adaptation deepens the listener’s appreciation of both the music and its theological-literary roots.

The Divine Feminine Voice: Performance, Persona, and Production

A central creative decision for any project based on Beatrice is vocal persona: who sings, and how does that voice carry the tradition of the female mystic? The “divine feminine” described in your materials is not a cosmetic choice but a methodological one—centering a female vocal timbre foregrounds the historically female authorship of these texts and restores a lineage often filtered through male interpreters. In performance, that voice can combine earthiness and luminosity—low, warm registers that ground listeners and crystalline highs that suggest the unitive horizon. Production techniques such as layering whispers, doubling, and subtle pitch-shifting can create a sense of multiplicity: one human voice becoming chorus, congregation, and interior echo all at once. Such choices make the album not only a musical retelling but a reparative gesture toward feminine spiritual authority.

Beyond timbre, vocal phrasing and lyric diction must navigate archaic theology and modern comprehension: archaizing language might evoke historical authenticity but can alienate listeners unused to medieval diction; plain modern phrasing increases accessibility but risks losing the text’s liturgical cadence. A hybrid lyrical strategy—occasional use of translated phrases or refrains set amidst contemporary poetic lines—preserves the strangeness that invites reflection while allowing emotional entry points. Moreover, multilingual touches (a line in Middle Dutch, Latin, or a regional tongue) can honor Beatrice’s original linguistic context and celebrate the vernacular impulse she embodied when writing in Middle Dutch. These production and performance strategies together create a record that is at once ancient-rooted and present-facing.

Finally, staging the “divine feminine” in visuals, album notes, and press materials is part of the wider narrative: photography, color palette (deep violet with gold accents, as suggested earlier), and liner quote selections can shape listener expectations and frame the album as both devotional and artistic. Care should be taken to avoid stereotypical or commercialized “feminine” tropes; instead, emphasize complexity—strength, tenderness, intellect, and mystery. When the creative team aligns sonic, lyrical, and visual strategies around a coherent, respectful portrayal, the project becomes a compelling bridge between historical spirituality and present-day artistry.

Listening Practice and Contemporary Relevance: A Short Guide

To get the most from a project that translates Beatrice into sound, listeners benefit from intentional listening practices: use headphones to experience spatial mixes, allow a full uninterrupted play-through to travel the arc, and repeat tracks to discover buried harmonics and whispered lines. A short listening guide—track-by-track notes that name the corresponding manner—enables listeners to map affective changes to musical moments and deepens contemplative possibilities. In addition, suggesting practices (journaling after the “love that wounds” track, breathwork after “stillness of communion,” communal listening followed by discussion after “love that runs”) helps the album function as a resource for individual and group spiritual formation. These pedagogical gestures mirror the convent and beguine cultures that originally transmitted Beatrice’s work: communal reflection and guided practice.

Contemporary relevance also lies in the album’s capacity to address modern forms of longing—digital loneliness, existential anxiety, and the hunger for meaning—that are cognate with Beatrice’s descriptions of restlessness and craving. The Seven Manners provide a vocabulary for naming interior thirsts: they invite listeners to see desire not as symptom but as fuel for transformation when rightly ordered. Musically narrating the process of purification, longing, ascent, transformation, overflow, rest, and union equips modern seekers with an aesthetic map that complements psychotherapy, spiritual direction, and communal worship. Thus the album speaks both to listeners drawn to sacred music and to those seeking artistic encounters with depth.

Finally, the album’s usefulness is amplified when accompanied by accessible scholarship—footnotes, recommended readings (e.g., translations of the Seven Ways, scholarship on medieval female mysticism), and a short glossary explaining terms like “minne” and “bridal mysticism.” These resources transform the listener’s curiosity into informed appreciation and honor the intellectual and devotional seriousness of Beatrice’s legacy. When sound and scholarship accompany one another, the project becomes both an aesthetic experience and an invitation to study.

Weaving Historical Wisdom, Theological Depth, and Sonic Imagination

The Seven Manners of Holy Love—rooted in Beatrice of Nazareth’s thirteenth-century devotional imagination—offers a potent template for contemporary musical reimagining. In this article we traced five interconnected subtopics: Beatrice’s historical context and authorship; the theological grammar of bridal mysticism and “minne”; the practical and ethical choices involved in translating text to sound; the performative logic of centering a divine feminine voice; and listening practices that make the project meaningful for modern audiences. When treated with historical fidelity, theological nuance, technical skill, and ethical transparency, a creative adaptation can do more than retell an old story: it can invite new listeners into a pilgrimage of longing, transformation, and union. That synthesis—ancient wisdom rendered as contemporary sacred art—is the album’s promise: to make the Seven Manners audible, tangible, and spiritually useful for our time.




Tracklist

• Music Prompt: A spatial and spacey stereo full length cover, a new version (not a clone of the original I shared but a new song) inspired by the attached instrumental music of my composition, transformed into a traditional lyrical song composition, using the Theme and Lyric samples below as inspiration for the lyric for you to write. Each song is sung by a “divine feminine” voice. 
• The Divine Feminine Voice: A mystical, ethereal feminine vocal that is warm, velvety, and luminous, with a vast dynamic range from low, earthy hums that feel like the heartbeat of the earth, to crystalline high notes that shimmer like starlight. Layer soft whispers with resonant sustained tones, weaving textures of intimacy and cosmic power. Her singing should flow like a river at dusk: gentle, reflective, yet strong enough to shape stone. 
• Theme: The soul is pierced by God’s love, awakened by a divine spark that stirs longing and restlessness.
• Lyric Sample: A spark strikes the heart—
a wound without blood,
a fire without smoke.
Suddenly I awaken,
longing for what I cannot yet name.
• AI Gen Sound:
A spatial and spacey stereo trance arrangement, uplifting cinematic trance with mystical, ethereal feminine vocal. Vocals are warm, velvety, and luminous, with a vast dynamic range—from low, earthy hums to crystalline high notes. Layered whispers and resonant sustained tones, blending intimacy and cosmic power. The composition evokes longing, spiritual awakening, and transformation.

AI Gen Lyrics

[Verse 1]
A spark strikes the heart
A wound without blood
A fire without smoke
Suddenly I awaken
Longing for what I cannot yet name

[Pre-chorus]
Oh, oh, oh (ascending vocalization)
Something stirs within
Oh, oh, oh (sustained tone)
The calling begins

[Chorus]
Sacred fire, sacred fire
Burning through my soul
Sacred fire, sacred fire
Making me whole
Sacred fire, sacred fire
I feel You pierce me through
Sacred fire, sacred fire
I’m awakening to You

[Verse 2]
In the silence of my being
A presence draws me near
What was sleeping now is seeing
What was distant now is here

[Pre-chorus]
Oh, oh, oh (ascending vocalization)
Something stirs within
Oh, oh, oh (sustained tone)
The calling begins

[Chorus]
Sacred fire, sacred fire
Burning through my soul
Sacred fire, sacred fire
Making me whole
Sacred fire, sacred fire
I feel You pierce me through
Sacred fire, sacred fire
I’m awakening to You

[Bridge]
Ah, ah, ah (extended ethereal vocalization)
Love that wounds to heal
Ah, ah, ah (layered whispers building)
Love that breaks the seal
Ah, ah, ah (crystalline highs)
Restless heart now still
Ah, ah, ah (resonant sustained tones)
Bending to Your will

Sacred fire, sacred fire (whispered)
Sacred fire, sacred fire (building)

[Final Chorus]
Sacred fire, sacred fire
Burning through my soul
Sacred fire, sacred fire
Making me whole
Sacred fire, sacred fire
I feel You pierce me through
Sacred fire, sacred fire
I’m awakening to You

Sacred fire, sacred fire (fading with extended vocalizations)
Sacred fire, sacred fire
Ah, ah, ah (final ethereal fade)

• Music Prompt: A spatial and spacey stereo full length cover, a new version (not a clone of the original I shared but a new song) inspired by the attached instrumental music of my composition, transformed into a traditional lyrical song composition, using the Theme and Lyric samples below as inspiration for the lyric for you to write. Each song is sung by a “divine feminine” voice. 
• The Divine Feminine Voice: A mystical, ethereal feminine vocal that is warm, velvety, and luminous, with a vast dynamic range from low, earthy hums that feel like the heartbeat of the earth, to crystalline high notes that shimmer like starlight. Layer soft whispers with resonant sustained tones, weaving textures of intimacy and cosmic power. Her singing should flow like a river at dusk: gentle, reflective, yet strong enough to shape stone. 
• Theme: The soul’s hunger deepens, earthly sweetness fades, and only God can satisfy.
• Lyric Sample: The fire spreads through me,
hunger without end.
All I once loved turns to dust—
my soul burns only
for the Beloved.
• AI Gen Sound:
A spatial and spacey stereo trance arrangement, contemplative with mystical, ethereal feminine vocals. Vocals are warm, velvety, luminous, from deep earthy hums to crystalline highs; layered with whispers and resonant tones. The song expresses profound spiritual hunger and longing for the divine, letting go of earthly pleasures, with cinematic trance instrumentation and evolving ambient textures.

AI Gen Lyrics

[Verse 1]
used to feel so full, you know
scrolling through the same old flow
but something’s shifting deep inside
can’t explain this empty tide

oh, oh
burning up, burning up

[Pre-Chorus]
all the things that used to hit
don’t do nothing, don’t do shit
searching for that missing piece
but the hunger just won’t cease

[Chorus]
fire spreads through me, hunger without end
all I once loved turns to dust, my friend
soul burns for something I can’t even name
nothing earthly feels the same
(fire spreads, fire spreads)
(soul burns, soul burns)

[Verse 2]
left you on read yesterday
couldn’t fake it anyway
parties, likes, the usual game
everything just feels so plain

oh, oh
fading out, fading out

[Pre-Chorus]
all the rush I used to get
leaves me cold, full of regret
reaching for what I can’t see
but it’s calling out to me

[Chorus]
fire spreads through me, hunger without end
all I once loved turns to dust, my friend
soul burns for something I can’t even name
nothing earthly feels the same
(fire spreads, fire spreads)
(soul burns, soul burns)

[Solo]
[Instrumental break with vocal echoes]
(oh, oh)
(burning, burning)
(dust to dust)
(where you at, where you at)

[Bridge]
thought I had it figured out
but there’s something else about
this ache that won’t let go
deeper than I’ll ever know

fire spreads, fire spreads
soul burns, soul burns

[Chorus]
fire spreads through me, hunger without end
all I once loved turns to dust, my friend
soul burns for something I can’t even name
nothing earthly feels the same

[Outro]
(fire spreads through me)
(all turns to dust)
(soul burns, soul burns)
[Fade with vocal effects]

• Music Prompt: A spatial and spacey stereo full length cover, a new version (not a clone of the original I shared but a new song) inspired by the attached instrumental music of my composition, transformed into a traditional lyrical song composition, using the Theme and Lyric samples below as inspiration for the lyric for you to write. Each song is sung by a “divine feminine” voice. 
• The Divine Feminine Voice: A mystical, ethereal feminine vocal that is warm, velvety, and luminous, with a vast dynamic range from low, earthy hums that feel like the heartbeat of the earth, to crystalline high notes that shimmer like starlight. Layer soft whispers with resonant sustained tones, weaving textures of intimacy and cosmic power. Her singing should flow like a river at dusk: gentle, reflective, yet strong enough to shape stone. 
• Theme: Love lifts the soul upward in joy, freeing it from the weight of the world.
• Lyric Sample: Wings unfurl in my chest,
I rise, weightless with joy.
Dancing in secret places,
I am carried
where the world cannot follow.
• AI Gen Sound:
A spatial and spacey cinematic orchestral arrangement, soaring and uplifting, with mystical, ethereal feminine vocals—warm, velvety, luminous, with deep earthy hums, crystalline highs, layered whispers, and resonant tones. The song evokes being lifted by love, breaking free from the world’s heaviness and rising with spiritual joy. Lush orchestration and textured ambiance.

AI Gen Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You came
You found me
Small
Broken
Heavy with the weight

You came
You touched me
Light
Sudden
Breaking every chain

[Pre-Chorus]
I feel
I feel
I feel it rising

[Chorus]
Wings beat
Wings beat
Wings beat inside me
I rise
I rise
I rise above it all
Free
Free
Free from gravity
You lift
You lift
You lift my spirit high

[Verse 2]
Before you
Before you
I crawled
Dust-covered
Anchored to the ground

After you
After you
I soar
Wind-carried
Dancing in the clouds

[Pre-Chorus]
I feel
I feel
I feel it lifting

[Chorus]
Wings beat
Wings beat
Wings beat inside me
I rise
I rise
I rise above it all
Free
Free
Free from gravity
You lift
You lift
You lift my spirit high

[Bridge]
Where you take me
Where you take me
Sacred spaces
Secret places
Higher than
Higher than
This world can reach

[Final Chorus]
Wings spread
Wings spread
Wings spread so wide now
I fly
I fly
I fly beyond it all
Light
Light
Light fills everything
You are
You are
You are my holy joy

[Outro]
Weightless
Weightless
Weightless in your love

• Music Prompt: A spatial and spacey stereo full length cover, a new version (not a clone of the original I shared but a new song) inspired by the attached instrumental music of my composition, transformed into a traditional lyrical song composition, using the Theme and Lyric samples below as inspiration for the lyric for you to write. Each song is sung by a “divine feminine” voice. 
• The Divine Feminine Voice: A mystical, ethereal feminine vocal that is warm, velvety, and luminous, with a vast dynamic range from low, earthy hums that feel like the heartbeat of the earth, to crystalline high notes that shimmer like starlight. Layer soft whispers with resonant sustained tones, weaving textures of intimacy and cosmic power. Her singing should flow like a river at dusk: gentle, reflective, yet strong enough to shape stone. 
• Theme: Love reshapes the soul into God’s likeness, clothing it in humility and surrender.
• Lyric Sample: Love remakes me,
shaping me in its own image.
Humility is my garment,
suffering, my mirror.
In surrender, I breathe.
• AI Gen Sound:
Spacey, spatial, ethereal new age song with mystical, cosmic textures, layered soft whispers and crystalline high notes, luminous and velvety "divine feminine" vocal, warm, reflective but powerful, new melodic structure inspired by the original instrumental and transformed into a traditional lyrical composition, sung as if flowing like a river at dusk.

AI Gen Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Love remakes me, shaping me in its own image
Humility adorns me, clothing my naked soul
Suffering becomes my silent teacher
In surrender, I learn to breathe again

Silent, still, I stand before the altar
Ancient grace pours through my open palms
Molding me with mercy’s gentle pressure
Making me a vessel for Your calm

[Chorus]
Love remakes me, love remakes me
Shaping clay from stone and sand
In Your likeness, in Your likeness
I am held within Your hand
(Love remakes me, yes it does)
(Shaping me, shaping me)

[Verse 2 – In Hindi]
प्रेम मुझे बदलता है (Prem mujhe badalta hai)
विनम्रता मेरा वस्त्र (Vinamrata mera vastra)
समर्पण में सांस लेती हूं (Samarpan mein saans leti hun)
मैं नया बन जाती हूं (Main naya ban jaati hun)

[Translation whispered:]
(Love changes me, humility my garment
In surrender I breathe, I become new)

[Chorus]
Love remakes me, love remakes me
Shaping clay from stone and sand
In Your likeness, in Your likeness
I am held within Your hand
(Love remakes me, yes it does)
(Shaping me into Your plan)

[Bridge – Soft and building]
Strip away all that I think I am
Peel back layers, take me as I am
Sacred sculptor, smooth these jagged edges
Make me humble, help me understand

Sacred sculptor, sacred sculptor
Working wonders in my willing heart
Sacred sculptor, sacred sculptor
Tear me down to make a brand new start

[Final Chorus – Full power]
Love remakes me, love remakes me
Shaping clay from stone and sand
In Your likeness, in Your likeness
I am held within Your hand
(Love remakes me, completely)
(Shaping me, transforming me)
(In Your image, in Your image)
(I am held, I am held)

[Outro – Whispered with vocal runs]
In surrender, I breathe
In surrender, I breathe
Love remakes me
(Yes, it does)
(Yes, it does)

[Fade with sustained “Love remakes me” with vocal improvisation]

• Music Prompt: A spatial and spacey stereo full length cover, a new version (not a clone of the original I shared but a new song) inspired by the attached instrumental music of my composition, transformed into a traditional lyrical song composition, using the Theme and Lyric samples below as inspiration for the lyric for you to write. Each song is sung by a “divine feminine” voice. 
• The Divine Feminine Voice: A mystical, ethereal feminine vocal that is warm, velvety, and luminous, with a vast dynamic range from low, earthy hums that feel like the heartbeat of the earth, to crystalline high notes that shimmer like starlight. Layer soft whispers with resonant sustained tones, weaving textures of intimacy and cosmic power. Her singing should flow like a river at dusk: gentle, reflective, yet strong enough to shape stone. 
• Theme: The soul is overtaken by divine presence—too sweet, too painful, too vast to bear.
• Lyric Sample: I am drowned in light,
tender and terrible.
Sweet as honey,
burning as fire—
too much to hold,
too deep to escape.
• AI Gen Sound:
spacey, wide stereo, lush pads, arpeggiated guitar textures, celestial chimes, layered mystical feminine leads, balancing warmth and starlight, deep dynamic swells and airy ambient drops, lyrics with divine longing and awe, E Minor.

AI Gen Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Something’s coming
Feel it rising in my chest
Warmth that shouldn’t be this strong
Started small, now I can’t rest

[Verse 2]
You’re inside me
Like the sun behind my ribs
Honey flooding through my veins
Sweet until it burns my lips

[Chorus]
I am drowned in light
Tender and terrible
Sweet as honey, burning as fire
Too much to hold
Too deep to escape
This love is more than I can take

[Verse 3]
Space expanding
In the place my heart used to be
Stars are singing in my blood
Can’t remember who I’m supposed to be

[Verse 4]
Floating higher
Past the ceiling of my skin
Everything is made of gold
Where do I end and you begin?

[Chorus]
I am drowned in light
Tender and terrible
Sweet as honey, burning as fire
Too much to hold
Too deep to escape
This love is more than I can take

[Bridge]
Breathe me in
Let me dissolve
Like sugar on your tongue
I was never meant
To stay whole
When something this beautiful comes

[Final Chorus]
I am drowned in light
Tender and terrible
Sweet as honey, burning as fire
Too much to hold
Too deep to escape
But I don’t want to break away
This love is more than I can take
But I don’t want to break away

• Music Prompt: A spatial and spacey stereo full length cover, a new version (not a clone of the original I shared but a new song) inspired by the attached instrumental music of my composition, transformed into a traditional lyrical song composition, using the Theme and Lyric samples below as inspiration for the lyric for you to write. Each song is sung by a “divine feminine” voice. 
• The Divine Feminine Voice: A mystical, ethereal feminine vocal that is warm, velvety, and luminous, with a vast dynamic range from low, earthy hums that feel like the heartbeat of the earth, to crystalline high notes that shimmer like starlight. Layer soft whispers with resonant sustained tones, weaving textures of intimacy and cosmic power. Her singing should flow like a river at dusk: gentle, reflective, yet strong enough to shape stone. 
• Theme: After the storm, the soul rests serenely in God, free from fear or striving.
• Lyric Sample: The storm is stilled within me.
Like a river at dusk,
I flow into silence.
No demand, no fear—
only rest in the Holy.
• AI Gen Sound:
spatial, spacey stereo, luminous and ethereal production, full length, mystical ambient pop arrangement with lush reverbs, shimmering synths, and gentle organic textures. Female vocal: divine feminine, warm, velvety, luminous and dynamic, flows from deep earthy tones to crystalline highs. Layered whispers and sustained resonant tones, evokes intimacy and cosmic power, vocals weave through the mix like a gentle river at dusk. 

AI Gen Lyrics

[Intro]
(Oh… oh…)
Mmm, the waters find their way
(Find their way)

[Verse 1]
You know the rage that lived inside
Thunder rolling through my bones
(Oh Lord)
Fighting currents, fighting time
Never learned to let it go
(Never learned)

[Pre-Chorus]
But something shifted in the deep
Something whispered, “Child, be still”
(Be still now)

[Chorus]
The storm is stilled within me
Like a river at dusk, I flow into silence
(Flow into silence)
No demand, no fear—only rest in the Holy
Rest in the Holy
(Oh, rest in You)

[Verse 2]
You held me when the winds were wild
Caught my tears before they fell
(Caught every tear)
Now I breathe in sacred calm
In Your arms, all is well
(All is well, Lord)

[Pre-Chorus]
Something shifted in the deep
Something whispered, “Child, be still”
(Be still and know)

[Chorus]
The storm is stilled within me
Like a river at dusk, I flow into silence
(Flow into silence)
No demand, no fear—only rest in the Holy
Rest in the Holy
(Oh, rest in You)

[Bridge]
No more striving, no more fear
(No more fear)
In this twilight, You are near
(So near to me)
Cosmic peace surrounds my soul
(Surrounds my soul)
In Your love, I am made whole
(Made whole in You)

[Solo]
(Oh… mmm…)
(Rest in the Holy…)
(Flow into silence…)

[Chorus]
The storm is stilled within me
Like a river at dusk, I flow into silence
(Flow into silence)
No demand, no fear—only rest in the Holy
Rest in the Holy
(Oh, rest in You)

[Outro]
Like a river at dusk
(At dusk, Lord)
I flow into Your silence
(Into Your silence)
Only rest… only rest
(Only rest in You)
Mmm…

• Music Prompt: A spatial and spacey stereo full length cover, a new version (not a clone of the original I shared but a new song) inspired by the attached instrumental music of my composition, transformed into a traditional lyrical song composition, using the Theme and Lyric samples below as inspiration for the lyric for you to write. Each song is sung by a “divine feminine” voice. 
• The Divine Feminine Voice: A mystical, ethereal feminine vocal that is warm, velvety, and luminous, with a vast dynamic range from low, earthy hums that feel like the heartbeat of the earth, to crystalline high notes that shimmer like starlight. Layer soft whispers with resonant sustained tones, weaving textures of intimacy and cosmic power. Her singing should flow like a river at dusk: gentle, reflective, yet strong enough to shape stone. 
• Theme: The soul is united with God; love loves through the soul itself, beyond separation.
• Lyric Sample: Nothing remains but Love.
Flame joins flame,
sea folds into sea.
No distance, no shadow—
only union,
only forever.
• AI Gen Sound:
spatial, spacey stereo, luminous ethereal production, full length, ambient pop arrangement with shimmering synths, gentle piano and organic textures, lush reverb. Female vocal: divine feminine, warm, velvety, glowing, moves from deep earthy tones to luminous highs, layered whispers and sustained crystalline tones. Vocals flow gently yet powerfully, weaving cosmic intimacy, evoking the mystical union with the divine after searching. 

AI Gen Lyrics

[Intro]
Oh, oh
Nothing left but this
Oh, oh
Only this

[Verse 1]
I used to think I was separate
Used to think I was alone
Used to fight against the current
Used to call this heart my own
But the walls are melting down now
And the fear is washing clean
I can feel the ancient knowing
Rising up from in between

[Pre-Chorus]
What I thought was me
What I thought was you
What I thought was real
Isn’t true

[Chorus]
Only love remains
Only love remains
When the flame meets flame
When the sea meets sea
Only love remains
Only love remains
And that love is me
(Oh, that love is me)

[Verse 2]
I used to search in all the places
Used to pray to distant skies
Used to beg for grace and mercy
From a God I couldn’t find
But the sacred lives inside me
And it’s burning soft and bright
I’m the love I’ve been seeking
I’m the source of my own light

[Pre-Chorus]
What I thought was lost
What I thought was far
What I thought I’d find
Is what we are

[Chorus]
Only love remains
Only love remains
When the flame meets flame
When the sea meets sea
Only love remains
Only love remains
And that love is me
(Oh, that love is me)

[Bridge]
No distance now
No shadow cast
The search is done
I’m home at last
I am the wave
I am the shore
I am the love
That asks for more
(I am, I am)
(I am the love)
(Oh, I am)

[Chorus]
Only love remains
Only love remains
When the flame meets flame
When the sea meets sea
Only love remains
Only love remains
And that love is me
(That love is me)
(Oh, that love is me)

[Outro]
Only love
Only love
(Only love remains)
Oh, oh
Only this


TATANKA

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