From The Start
Laufey · From The Start - Single
Honest longing, beautifully told
Weighed against scripture
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.”
The ancient poem celebrates love as fierce, patient, and worth everything. Laufey's quiet ache for someone she has always cared for resonates with that same portrait of love as something deep and persistent.
“Open rebuke is better than secret love.”
The proverb values honest expression over hidden feeling. The whole song is a wish that she had spoken openly from the start, which is exactly the kind of courageous honesty this verse commends.
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
Perfect love displaces fear. Laufey's song is about the fear that kept her silent and the moment she chooses vulnerability anyway. That movement away from self-protective fear and toward honest love has a genuine resonance with this verse.
From the Start is a jazz-tinged confession: Laufey has quietly loved someone from the beginning and wishes she had said so sooner. The song does not wrap itself in religious language, but it does something quietly valuable. It honors the vulnerability of genuine love and the cost of keeping it hidden. There is nothing here that dulls the spirit or pulls a listener toward sin. It is simply a beautifully crafted portrait of human longing.
No profanity, no explicit content. The lyrics are warm and emotionally candid, describing the ache of unspoken romantic feelings for a close friend.
The song is not oriented toward or away from God. It sits in the honest, human space of longing and vulnerability, which is neither spiritually nourishing nor corrosive.
Laufey writes as someone confessing feelings she has been afraid to voice. The intent is emotional honesty and the courage to be known, not the celebration of anything harmful.
Is there someone in your life you have been afraid to be fully honest with, and what might it cost you to speak up from here?