The Invisible Kingdom

Different thoughts that arise out of the contemplation of what the "Kingdom of God" is/might be that Jesus mentions in Matthew 6:33. The Lord's Kingdom is clearly a spiritual REALITY, but is also clearly something that is well beyond the bounds of physical Reality or at least physical, material reality that we humans can understand. In your lyric attempt to provoke listeners to stretch, to contemplate, to go beyond the material world to seek something so perfect, so filled with LOVE, so full of mercy, so defined by forgiveness, redemption and peace that we cannot prove it with anything from human experience.

 

Man, I'm telling you about a kingdom
Not built with brick, not bought with bread
Not seen with eyes, not found in maps
But real like midnight jazz is real

*[bass begins walking pattern]*

Seek first, the Nazarene said
This thing beyond the fingertips of emperors
This realm that flowers in the cracks
Between what is and what could be

*[piano enters with sparse, modal chords]*

Squares look for kingdoms in tanks and banks
In Pentagon plans and Madison Avenue promises
But this kingdom, this crazy kingdom
It slips through the fingers of the mighty

*[tenor saxophone plays long, searching notes]*

The suit-and-tie boys won't find it
The cats with gold cufflinks can't buy it
It's not waiting after your funeral, man
It's breathing right now between your thoughts

*[drums enter with brushes, gentle]*

A kingdom where mercy outlasts memory
Where enemies break bread at midnight
Where the last cat in line goes first
And the fallen walk without shame

*[saxophone builds intensity]*

I've seen it flash like summer lightning
When a junkie shares his last dime
When the condemned man forgives his hangman
When love speaks louder than fear

*[piano becomes more insistent]*

It's a parallel universe, daddy-o
Running alongside our concrete nightmare
More solid than steel but invisible
More powerful than bombs but silent as prayer

*[all instruments build]*

This kingdom is now, this kingdom is here
But seen only by those who've stopped looking
For what the world calls real
And started seeing with different eyes

*[climax of instruments]*

So dig it—seek this kingdom first
Not with telescopes but with tears
Not with formulas but with faith
Not with power but with open palms

*[instruments fade to solo piano]*

The kingdom is
The moment between notes
The breath between words
The space between heartbeats
Where everything that matters
Lives

*[final piano chord fades to silence]*