The Current

🎤 Opening Refrain – Singer (gentle, almost whispered) Love is the current… Love is the way… ⸻ 🗣️ Verse 1 – Poet/Rapper (unfolding the metaphor) We’re all born in the driver’s seat, Given breath, a body, and roads beneath. But the car don’t move with wish or will — It takes love to climb that hill. You press the pedal when you show up real, When your silence breaks so another can heal. Love ain’t soft — it’s the force that steers, Through shadow valleys and grinding gears. It’s not just romance or friend-to-friend, It’s how you treat a stranger — or how you mend What broke in you before it spreads — It’s how you bless the world instead. ⸻ 🎤 Refrain – Singer (floating above, warm) When you give, life goes… When you hold, it slows… When you harm, it closes. ⸻ 🗣️ Verse 2 – Poet/Rapper (sacred references woven in) Paul said: you could speak in tongues, Move mountains, solve the math of suns — But without love, you’ve done none. You’re a loud brass bell, just echo and stun. (“The greatest of these is love.”) The Gita whispers through Arjuna’s fight: Compassion is victory, not just might. To be steady, to forgive, to stay kind in flame — That’s divine practice, not just name. (“Hate none, be free from pride…”) Rumi sang it simpler still: “Love is the whole thing” — and we’re the quill. We write in light or ink in pain, But love’s the page that holds the rain. And the Buddha taught — no exception there — That kindness radiates like morning air. Not just to friends, but to all that lives — It expands the self until it gives. ⸻ 🎤 Refrain – Singer (quiet prayer) Press love, and move… Let go, and bloom… ⸻ 🗣️ Verse 3 – Poet/Rapper (the consequences of harm) Now, harm? That’s the foot on the brake — Not just for them — for your own sake. You freeze the road that God once cleared, You block the grace that drew you near. You shrink the world when you withhold touch, You stall the ride when you take too much. And life don’t punish — it just responds, To the current you ride or the one you’re beyond. This ain’t karma points or moral game — It’s hydraulics of the holy flame. Love flows in, flows through, flows wide — And when it stops, something in you dies. ⸻ 🎤 Bridge – Singer (echoed lines) The pedal is yours… The current is near… Let love move you… There’s nothing to fear. ⸻ 🗣️ Final Verse – Poet/Rapper (bringing it home) So when the light turns green — don’t wait. Forgive. Speak truth. Open the gate. This is the ride, the gift, the breath — And love is how you drive through death. God laid the road, but it’s yours to ride. Just keep the current on your side. Give when it’s hard. Touch when you ache. That’s the fuel. That’s the stake. Because the current is real, and it always was — And the ride don’t run without love. ⸻ 🎤 Final Refrain – Singer (fading out) Love is the current… Love is the way…