Creator reputation, catalog, and the song's cultural afterlife set to zero. Read as plain words from an unknown writer. Visceral: +30. Devotional warmth. Concept: Devotion as homecoming: a restless, worn-down lover finds wholeness and sacred light in a partner's gaze and sets down pride and pretense to reach it.

A lover addressing a partner admits recurring aimlessness and a growing emptiness, flees by driving away and is always carried back to where the partner is, expects a proud front to burn off, and reaches toward the partner humbly. In the partner's gaze he finds heat, light, and completeness, pictured as an entrance to countless places of worship and the end of a long empty search. A second verse adds weariness from struggling to keep the pair going and reliance on their time together to stay alive and awake. The close is extended repetition of wanting to be as whole as that gaze promises. Posture: lost, empty and weary, always circling back to the beloved -> declaring completeness in the partner's gaze while still longing to reach it (the same stance).

R1 fires: completeness-in-another is a standard romance intensifier, no actual loss of self. Consequence: no ego-axis reading from that language. R2 does not: placement is off zero on a stated case. R3 fires: worship imagery and light sit on a one-to-one structure. Consequence: no violet credit for sacred vocabulary. R4 does not: no possessive or control language. R5 does not: first-person devotion, no harmful behavior described. R6 fires: song's fame and creator persona zeroed and discarded. Consequence: page-only reading. R7 fires: closing claim of wholeness is wish-form. Consequence: internal-work cap at Decent. R8 does not: no systemic condition named. R9 fires: strongest case for height rests on imagery and the refrain. Consequence: Decent cap confirmed. R10 scope: not this route. R11 does not: no affirmation of the addressee's inner dignity; the address praises what the partner gives the narrator. R12 does not: no possessive intensifiers at issue. R13 does not: no profanity. R14 does not: worship imagery is decorative, passes the dogma swap. R15 does not: no civic or institutional sanctity invoked. R16 fires: weariness from survival struggle and the urge to flee are hardship and wanting, no harm signal. Consequence: ego 0, negative_payload not routed. R17 does not: no external named referent. R18 scope: not this route. S1 does not: song read alone. S2 does not: fields describe what is present. Rules: 20 enumerated, 6 fire Ego: 0. Pervasiveness: none. Transcendence: 20. Vulnerability without performance and pride set aside (blue-06, blue-10) register, capped to Decent by R7/R9.

(Decent on both axes: blue and orange) blue-01 does not: no questioning of own assumptions. blue-02 does not: no accountability for a wrong. blue-03 does not: no hard truth accepted. blue-04 does not: same posture at both ends. blue-05 does not: growth wished for at the close. blue-06 fires: plain admission of being lost, empty and exhausted. blue-07 does not: no problem the narrator owns. blue-08 does not: admission without examination of causes. blue-09 does not: no earned perspective stated. blue-10 fires: the proud front and facade are let go to reach the partner. blue-11 does not: humility toward the partner is posture of need, not empathy or forgiveness. orange-01 through orange-11 do not: no status markers, no control-as-love, the pain is voiced alongside seeking the partner (orange-03 does not), no numbing (orange-04 cleared under R16), no ego claims, no self-destruction, no blame, no objectification, no us-vs-them, no insecurity as identity, no scarcity worldview (orange-11 cleared under R16). Held out of Elevated: the posture is the same at both ends and the close is a wish (R7/R9). Adjacent tier: blue + orange enumerated, 2 fire

Kept: +25-gratitude, as a weaker comparison. The partner's effect on the narrator is the whole song, but no thanks or tribute is offered; the song reports need and arrival. Rejected: +8 (doctrinal cap inapplicable, no load-bearing dogma); +12 (no tribal us); +18-diagnosis (dissent-route anchor, no systemic condition); +28 and +30 (no addressee coaxed or affirmed); +38-reckoning (no accounting carried to completion); +78 (no vow of self-sacrifice). Precedents: [+25-gratitude] Center: +20

Saturation +1: vulnerability and dropped pride recur across both verses. Resolution -1: closes on wanting and the repeated refrain. Register +1: doorway-to-worship image fresher than stock romance. Reach -1: scope stays within one couple. Contamination: none Summary check: clean (absence test clean, concept test names one idea, every noun sourced to the page).

Decent territory, weaker than +25-gratitude, because wholeness is placed in the partner with real vulnerability while the state repeats and closes on a wish. Reconciliation: aligned {"visceral_charge": 30, "route": "internal_work", "harm": {"value": 0, "pervasive": false}, "transcendence": {"value": 20}, "precedent_refs": ["+25-gratitude"], "center": 20, "vernier": {"sat": 1, "res": -1, "reg": 1, "reach": -1}, "contaminated": false, "contamination_note": null, "dogma_referenced": false, "dogma_note": null, "charge_summary": "Devotion as homecoming: a restless, worn-down lover finds wholeness and sacred light in a partner's gaze and sets down pride and pretense to reach it.", "confidence": 0.8}

Decent territory, weaker than +25-gratitude, because wholeness is placed in the partner with real vulnerability while the state repeats and closes on a wish.