Update — September 22, 2026: “More Than She Asked (ALIVE in Des Moines Version)” is now streaming as an official single, released September 18. Listen on Spotify or YouTube, or play it in the Music App. Explore the complete lyrics, meaning, and sources and single details. The full Monica album is still in progress. This ALIVE version is a simulated concert performance.
More Than She Asked (ALIVE in Des Moines Version)
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From there we went in to my mother and told her; she rejoiced. We related how it had happened; she exulted and triumphed and blessed you, who are able to do beyond what we ask or understand, because she saw that you had granted her so much more concerning me than she had been accustomed to ask with wretched, tearful groans. For you converted me to yourself so that I sought neither a wife nor any hope of this world, standing upon that rule of faith in which you had revealed me to her so many years before. You turned her mourning into joy, far more abundant than she had desired and far dearer and more chaste than what she sought from grandchildren of my flesh.
(Saint Augustine, Confessions, Book 8, Chapter 12, Section 30, Augustinus Vox Standard Version translation)
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