Copeland: In Motion
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Copeland’s In Motion wants to put its hands on love to hold it, define it, and put a name there for all to see. In “No One Really Wins,� love takes center stage as the singer urges his beloved not to make any changes to prove herself but to just let go. “I hope that you look back before you go ‘cause grace looks back before it starts to leave…In the endless fight of grace and pride I don’t want to win this time.� In any relationship, the fragile balance between boundaries and complete interaction includes the balance of grace and pride. Grace is the thing that brings two people closer than their humanness allows.
This understanding continues in “Choose the One Who Loves You More.� Fear of the unknown is blamed for keeping us in the dark about each other, and our ‘beautiful secret lives.’ Copeland urges the listener to “Choose the one who loves you more./And when you’ve found something to die for. They’ll be knocking on your heart’s door.� How much significance does ‘the one’ hold? Is it the one of two or THE ONE that remains forever, alpha and omega, beginning and end? Who are they who come knocking? It seems that the opportunities abound—when you choose that person/other who loves you more or most than any other, you escape the boundaries that keep your true self hidden. You becomes the core of who you are and you are willing to share that freely…when you are really loved.
“Kite� is unabashedly about a woman, from whom the singer hid out of failure and fear. Or is it fear of failure? “Oh my dear you’re a threat to the bad in us all./They tell themselves that each word from your lips or the grace in your eyes overcomes any fall.� Once again, the grace of the other rises above the situations that the singer has involved himself in out of fear. This female object of affection has the power to overcome ‘any fall’…Love rises above “The Fall,� right? Jesus Christ comes bodily to earth to shower grace over all of us and wash aside original sin as presented through the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
The expression of love that requires the action of the other rings out from “Don’t Slow Down� as well. “They say, I don’t know how to love the right way, but you make me feel…you make me feel like I do,� Copeland sings. Not only is love presented as self-sacrificing here but it shines by example and shouts to be heard above the murmuring of critics and judgmental views. Love is patient and kind…and leads by example? Copeland moves on in “Love is a Fast Song� to human-to-human love but the understanding is still that love is in motion and draws others to it.
Regardless of who Copeland is singing to and about, they love they present makes those around it better, draws them closer to truth and wellbeing, and helps them love themselves. That’s what Jesus did.
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Copeland’s In Motion wants to put its hands on love to hold it, define it, and put a name there for all to see. In “No One Really Wins,� love takes center stage as the singer urges his beloved not to make any changes to prove herself but to just let go. “I hope that you look back before you go ‘cause grace looks back before it starts to leave…In the endless fight of grace and pride I don’t want to win this time.� In any relationship, the fragile balance between boundaries and complete interaction includes the balance of grace and pride. Grace is the thing that brings two people closer than their humanness allows.This understanding continues in “Choose the One Who Loves You More.� Fear of the unknown is blamed for keeping us in the dark about each other, and our ‘beautiful secret lives.’ Copeland urges the listener to “Choose the one who loves you more./And when you’ve found something to die for. They’ll be knocking on your heart’s door.� How much significance does ‘the one’ hold? Is it the one of two or THE ONE that remains forever, alpha and omega, beginning and end? Who are they who come knocking? It seems that the opportunities abound—when you choose that person/other who loves you more or most than any other, you escape the boundaries that keep your true self hidden. You becomes the core of who you are and you are willing to share that freely…when you are really loved.
“Kite� is unabashedly about a woman, from whom the singer hid out of failure and fear. Or is it fear of failure? “Oh my dear you’re a threat to the bad in us all./They tell themselves that each word from your lips or the grace in your eyes overcomes any fall.� Once again, the grace of the other rises above the situations that the singer has involved himself in out of fear. This female object of affection has the power to overcome ‘any fall’…Love rises above “The Fall,� right? Jesus Christ comes bodily to earth to shower grace over all of us and wash aside original sin as presented through the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden.
The expression of love that requires the action of the other rings out from “Don’t Slow Down� as well. “They say, I don’t know how to love the right way, but you make me feel…you make me feel like I do,� Copeland sings. Not only is love presented as self-sacrificing here but it shines by example and shouts to be heard above the murmuring of critics and judgmental views. Love is patient and kind…and leads by example? Copeland moves on in “Love is a Fast Song� to human-to-human love but the understanding is still that love is in motion and draws others to it.
Regardless of who Copeland is singing to and about, they love they present makes those around it better, draws them closer to truth and wellbeing, and helps them love themselves. That’s what Jesus did.
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2 Comments:
well........the authors commments ab "no one really wins this time" are his own interpreptation bc.....aaron marsh has said that the song is ab....homesexuality in the church.....and how he believes that we should love people no matter who they are......and not ask them to change before we love them.
Yes, Marsh did say the song was about the church loving people without expecting them to change first (with homosexuality as an example)in the Circle 6 interview on March 18-- and the church is historically referred to as the beloved of Christ. Recognizing that regardless of who you are, there should be a place for you in the church is what grace, and this song, are about.
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