from the album THE PHOENIX CODEX
"The Joy To Be" is a hymn to love's primal force—not the sanitized romance of poets, but the wild, consuming fire that demands everything. The lyrics reject transcendence for immanence: love as "the living ground," the "sacred sin," the "reckless land" where ecstasy and destruction merge.
Musically, the track builds like a ritual—swelling from whispered invocations to a roaring chant ("Love is all, it's all we see"). The arrangement mirrors the lyrics' descent into orchestrated chaos: strings like tearing fabric, percussion like cracking bones, vocals that oscillate between prayer and scream.
This is love stripped of illusion—not peace, but "the darkness where we gleam." Not salvation, but the "willing fall." The song's power lies in its refusal to soften the paradox: that to love fully is to "learn how to stand alone / And then to die, to call it home."
“The Joy To Be” doesn’t offer comfort. It offers clarity. It strips love of romance and replaces it with reckoning, surrender, and soul-level truth. This track can only unfold it's magic for those unafraid to look into the abyss and sing what they see.
It’s not the peace, it’s not the dream,
But the darkness where we gleam.”
If love songs are often lullabies, this one is a summons.
