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Originals

A note from Nina

These songs began as lyrics, poems, memories, dreams, and stories I’ve written over the years. Some are new. Others have been waiting decades for music.

I’m not genre-specific. I follow each piece wherever it seems to want to go, whether that leads to folk, rock, country, something atmospheric, or somewhere I didn’t expect.

The words and stories here are my original work. Music and vocals are created in collaboration with Suno AI unless otherwise noted. When a melody is also my original composition, I’ll say so.

This page will continue to grow as I revisit older writing, create new work, and give more of these pieces a voice.

Hear more on Suno — @ninakuhl

God Confided

God Confided cover — original fluid artwork by Nina Kuhl in cream, amber, blue, and black

Lyrics, story & artwork: Nina Kuhl

Music & vocals: created with Suno

Verse 1

God leaned close one quiet night And whispered, soft and slight, “I must admit — don’t be afraid — I question Me as well,” He said. I built the stars, I spun the sky, Yet still I ask the how and why. For mystery, however tied, Is something living souls divide.

Verse 2

You drew My face in stone and flame, You crowned Me with a holy name, You feared the dark, you praised the light, And pulled My shadow side to side. But child, I am the breath between The things declared and things unseen. The doubt that stirs a searching heart, The ache that asks where faith meets art.

Chorus

If faith and doubt sit side by side, There is no war that must divide. Two truths can stand within one view, And neither makes the other untrue.

Verse 3

You built Me temples, sharp and tall, You built Me doctrines, thick as walls, Yet walls collapse when love is found Not in the shout — but in the sound Of quiet minds that dare to say We do not know — and that’s okay. For peace is not in proving right, But holding wonder through the night.

Chorus

If faith and doubt sit side by side, There is no war that must divide. Two truths can stand within one view, And neither makes the other untrue.

Verse 4

So let them argue heaven’s claim, Let some reject and some proclaim — I do not tremble at the seam Where skeptic meets the one who dreams. For greater still than creed or chart Is mercy in the human heart. And if I am — or if I’m not — The love you give is what you’ve got.

Bridge

So sit with doubt, and sit with grace, Let both exist in equal space. If God and atheist can be In quiet, shared humility, Then surely you, in fragile skin, Can let the mystery settle in. No push, no pull, no need to shove — Just room enough for awe and love.

Final Chorus

If faith and doubt sit side by side, There is no war that must divide. Two truths can stand within one view, And neither makes the other untrue.

Outro

And if you ask what truth may be, It lives where both can simply see That certainty is seldom kind — But wonder frees the searching mind.

© Nina Kuhl. Lyrics and artwork are original works of Nina Kuhl.