Relationships

Koryn Hawthorne opens "Relationships" describing a specific failed method before naming the correction — "tried it by the book over and over, hoping that things would change" — until a direct spiritual correction arrives: "you can't hear Me directly for yourself, but just call out His name." Effort through rule-following gets replaced with a much simpler instruction.

"Been in church all these years and we learn tradition, showing a form of God but we lost sight of the mission" borrows Paul's language about having "a form of godliness" while missing its substance, applied here to inherited religious habit rather than active relationship. "No matter who you are, God is listening" answers that critique with unconditional access rather than another set of requirements.

The song's central hypothetical, "if there was no buildings, church on a hill, I'd still be connected 'cause I know my God is real," strips away every external structure one at a time — buildings, written words — to test whether the relationship being described would actually survive their absence. "It's not about religion, it's more about relationship" closes the song repeating the same stripped-down claim until the distinction between the two becomes the song's entire remaining argument.