The perfect prayer is a conversation.
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What “Matthew 67” is about
Matthew 67 is a song about what Matthew 6:7 actually means — “when you pray, do not babble like the pagans, who think they will be heard for their many words.” It was born when Noel told Rick he had composed the perfect prayer, one he says word-for-word before every meal. Rick didn't argue; he opened a Bible two sentences upstream of the Lord's Prayer and read the verse everyone skips. The song's first chorus IS the real prayer, sung like the broken record it had become; the second chorus asks what was never asked — did you receive it? — and the ending flips the record: unfold your hands and pray one honest question. Why? If you've ever wondered whether repeating the same prayer every day is empty repetition or real devotion, this track is that wrestle set to music. Track two of Rick's Why? album. Listen free on Mi.
About “Matthew 67”
From a recorded session, August 2026. Noel said “I have the perfect prayer” — a real prayer he composed and says before every meal. Rick sent him to Matthew 6:7, two sentences before the Lord's Prayer: don't repeat the same words like a broken record; go in, close the door, and talk to Him like a friend — He already knows the what; the only question with any value is why. The song is built from the actual prayer, word for word, and from Rick's actual challenge — the record playing, the record doubting itself, and the record finally re-recorded with the one word that matters.
The journey
- 01
The Record
Same table, same candle — the perfect prayer, pressed play, every night.
- 02
The Prayer Machine
The real prayer, verbatim — praise, glory, thanks. Beautiful. On repeat.
- 03
The Why-Voice
The questions the prayer never asks: which blessing? Hungry for what? Why?
- 04
The Machine, Outgrown
Thousands of prayers on repeat — did any of them arrive?
- 05
The Lesson
He heard you the first time. Go in, shut the door, talk to Him like a friend.
- 06
Close the Door
He already knows. He simply wants to know if you know why.
- 07
The Return
Same table, same candle — but the hands unfold, and the prayer becomes a question.
- 08
The Record, Re-Recorded
Every old line, asked its why. Thy will, not mine. ...Amen.
In Rick's words
“The perfect prayer is a conversation.” — Rick
“Go to Matthew 6:7 — literally two sentences before the Lord's Prayer.” — Rick
“Close the door. Talk to him like you talked to anybody else.” — Rick
“Why is the only thing that has value here.” — Rick
Lyrics
Same table, same candle, same line Fold my hands and press play Every word true Every prayer, on repeat I give you praise, glory, and thanks for the blessings seen and unseen I ask that if it is in your Grace to extend these blessings onto thee ...Amen Which blessing? Name one. Why? What are you hungry for? Why? Thy will, not mine — Why? …broken record on repeat. Why? Thousands of prayers on repeat. I asked... Did you receive? praise (praise…) glory (glory…) thanks (thanks…) I ask Lord, did you hear my prayers on repeat? ...Amen He heard you the first time repeating your words He's not dumb, he doesn't need to hear you twice Go in, shut the door Talk to Him like a friend Close the door. He already knows. He simply wants to know if You know why? Same table, same candle, repeating these vain words When you pray, do not babble they think they're heard for their many words Instead simply unfold your hands and pray... Why? Why? Why? Thank you for the blessing? Why? I hunger. Why? I thirst. Why? Thy will, not mine be done. Why? ...Amen
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My “Perfect Prayer” Was a Broken Record — Matthew 6:7
“I have the perfect prayer.” — “Go to Matthew 6:7.” The real conversation, uncut, and the song it became. This is the creative process in public: what resonates, what would you change? The comments steer what comes next.
The full story of this video›
It starts with a confident claim: one man tells his friend he has composed the perfect prayer — a prayer he recites word-for-word before every meal, every line of it true. His friend's response isn't a rebuttal. It's a page number. Matthew 6:7 sits two sentences before the Lord's Prayer, and almost nobody reads it on the way there: when you pray, don't babble like the pagans, who think they'll be heard because of their many words.
What follows on camera is the verse taken seriously as relationship advice. Rick's argument is disarmingly practical — imagine any friendship where one person repeats the same sentence forever. No back and forth, no growth, no connection. God, he says, already knows the what; the entire remaining conversation is why. Close the door, talk like a friend is in the room, and bring the one question that matters.
The episode ends where the song begins. The track built from this conversation uses the actual prayer as its first chorus — sung on repeat, like the record it had become — then lets the doubt in, verse by verse, until the same opening lines return with their meaning flipped and the prayer collapses into a single repeated word: why. It's track two of Rick's Why? album, and like everything on Mi., the making of it is public — the comments on the video are the writers' room for what happens next.
The story behind the song
Matthew 67: What Matthew 6:7 Says Two Sentences Before the Lord's Prayer — and Why the Perfect Prayer Is a Conversation
Noel had composed what he called the perfect prayer. Rick said go grab your Bible — and read the two verses everybody skips on the way to the Lord's Prayer.
The recording opens with a confession that sounds like devotion. Noel has a prayer he composed himself — praise, glory, thanks, a request that the blessings be extended — and he can't imagine a better one. If he truly feels the words, he says, he's in touch with everything Rick keeps saying he's out of touch with. Rick's answer is not an argument. It's an errand: do you have a Bible with you? Go grab it.
Two sentences before the Lord's Prayer
Everyone knows where the Lord's Prayer starts — Matthew 6:9, Our Father. Rick sends Noel two verses earlier, to 6:7 and 6:8: when you pray, go into your inner room and shut the door; and don't babble like the pagans, who think they'll be heard because of their many words. Your Father knows what you need before you ask.
“Go to Matthew 6:7 — literally two sentences before the Lord's Prayer. He's saying don't repeat the same thing over and over like a broken record. Go to your room, close the door, speak authentically.”
— Rick
The song's title is the verse. Matthew 67 is Matthew 6:7 with the colon knocked out — the way you'd say it out loud on a call, before anyone had time to make it pretty. It's the instruction that comes before the famous prayer, aimed at exactly the thing Noel had been proud of.
The chocolate conversation
Rick's proof is a bit of comedy. Imagine two friends hanging out, and one of them only ever says: I would really like some chocolate. What kind? I would really like some chocolate. Kisses, a bar, dark, milk, Swiss? I would really like some chocolate. There's no back and forth, so there's no relationship — just a sentence on repeat. That's what a memorized prayer becomes, however perfect the wording. The verses in the song — every prayer, on repeat; thousands of prayers on repeat; did you receive? — are that scene, sung.
Why is the only thing that has value
“I know what chocolate is. I have access to all the chocolate. But do you know why? Why is the only thing I'm interested in with you. It's not what do you want — it's why.”
— Rick
He already knows what you need — the verse says so. So what's left to talk about? The why. Why you want it, why it matters, what you're actually hungry for. The kingdom of heaven is inward, Rick says, and why is the direction inward. The bridge of the song is that idea stripped to five lines: close the door; he already knows; he simply wants to know if you know why.
Same words, new ears
The song ends by singing the composed prayer again — same table, same candle — except every line now has a why hung on the end of it. Thank you for the blessing? Why. I hunger. Why. I thirst. Why. Nothing about the prayer changed; the person praying did. That's the whole album in one move, and it's why this track sits where it does on Why?.
Nothing invented, everything remembered
| The lyric sings… | Because Rick said… |
|---|---|
| "Every prayer, on repeat" | "Don't repeat the same thing over and over again like a broken record." |
| "Go in, shut the door / Talk to Him like a friend" | "Close the door. Talk to him like you talked to anybody else." |
| "He heard you the first time" | "He's like, hey, I already know what you need." |
| "He simply wants to know if You know why" | "I know what it is. But do you know why?" |
| "When you pray, do not babble" | Matthew 6:7, read aloud on the call |
| "The perfect prayer" (the setup) | "The perfect prayer is a conversation." |
Why it sounds like a record skipping
The arrangement does what the words do. The prayer sections are stacked and mechanical — a prayer machine — and each time they return, they've worn a little thinner. The why-voice is deadpan and dry against them. When the bridge arrives the machine simply stops, and the final pass is the same melody with the air let back in. Hear it on Mi., then watch the Behind the Music to see Noel actually go get the Bible.
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About Rick (Curse Breaker)
Rick: Codename: Curse Breaker breaks generational curses out loud. His weekly Do-Rick-Mi sessions are real conversations that become raw material for songs men can actually carry. This one caught him mid-teaching — Bible open, taking a friend's “perfect prayer” apart with love, two verses before the most famous prayer ever written.
More from Rick (Curse Breaker)
Track two of Why? — the album is being written in public, and the community's comments steer what happens next.
The Making Of
The Inspiration
A cinematic slow-build art-pop hymn — a long hollow-hum instrumental rise into a half-time head-nod groove, every lyric carried by stacked ensemble voices chanting half-spoken, half-sung over a warm melodic bassline, with a haunted detuned music-box glinting through the dark.
- Cinematic art-pop
- Chant-gospel electronic · 2
- Mid-tempo head-nod pocket · 2
- Major key over dark substance
- Stacked ensemble chant
- Half-spoken half-sung delivery
- Echo-answer vocals
- Question-as-hook · 4
- Litany chorus closing on Amen
- Same words, new meaning reprise
- Long instrumental slow-build intro
- Detuned music-box motif
- Melodic bass forward
- Wide negative space · 5
- Prayerful gravity
- Deadpan devotion
This track was generated with AI from a documented analysis of a genre's structural elements — tempo, vocal delivery, arrangement, and production aesthetic. Mi. publishes that analysis below. Any resemblance to a specific recording artist's voice or composition is a coincidence of methodology, not imitation.
Sonic Architecture
Vocal Delivery
No solo lead by design: every lyric is a stack of the same voice layered across registers, chanting half-spoken, half-sung — a congregation of one. The choruses answer themselves in fading echoes (praise… praise…), and the bridge drops to the sparsest, most intimate layer in the song before the full stack returns.
Structure
A record that learns to doubt itself: the opening verse and chorus play a real mealtime prayer straight, a deadpan question-verse interrogates it, and the second chorus sings the same melody wearier — the prayer bouncing back unanswered. After the lesson and the closed door, the final section reprises the opening lines word for word with their meaning inverted, and the outro re-records every old phrase with one question attached.
Production Aesthetic
A long cinematic instrumental build opens the track — hollow digital hum, deep slow pulse, echoing distance — before the beat finally lands into a crisp kick-clap half-time groove. Warm round melodic bass sits forward; a haunted detuned music-box glints through the arrangement; wide negative space keeps the chant the biggest thing in the room.
Mood Territory
Sadness under a bright major key — prayerful gravity delivered deadpan, never mournful. The tension is the point: sincere words worn smooth by repetition, sung sweetly enough that you almost miss the question underneath until it's the only thing left.
How this song was made
Matthew 67 came out of Rick's coaching and his own surrender — the Warrior's Way Mindset — with Rick's words shaped into a song and produced by Mi. The words above are Rick (Curse Breaker)'s own; the lyrics are Mi.'s and the Re's. How Mi. works · Listen and read the lyrics in the app.
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