Seeing Over
Song Meaning
Kim Burrell opens with a specific, hard situation rather than an abstract problem: a thirteen-year-old facing an unplanned pregnancy, a marriage that couldn't hold under the weight of it. "Tell me where did we go wrong, it messed up our home, oh, our happy home."
The song pivots without transition from that specific grief to a general claim: "there is a solution to everything." It doesn't explain how the two connect — it just states both and moves forward.
"Dare to believe in what you cannot see... just have the faith, the grain of a mustard seed" borrows Jesus' own image of the smallest visible faith moving mountains, and "if you believe in the man on the tree, that he died for you and me, you have the remedy" names the cross directly — Paul's language of Christ becoming a curse by hanging on a tree, offered here as the actual remedy to whatever specific wreckage the first verse described.
All because of a meeting
Of what she thought was the mind
Became a situation of bind
At only 13, the world she's never seen
It turns out to be
"It's a baby in me!"
A vow made to keep
Giving all I had
The best in the world
Ended up so bad
Tell me where did we go wrong
It messed up our home
Oh, our happy home
There is a solution to everything
To everything, to everything
There is a solution to everything
Oh, dare to believe
In what you cannot see
Oh, grab a hold and don't you dare let go
If you can believe
In what you can not see
Just have the faith
The grain of a mustard seed
Oh, if you believe
In the man on the tree
That he died for you and me
You have the remedy
Oh, to victory, oh, sweet victory
Oh, to victory, you have the remedy...