Doubt Lyrics

How many people have come up to me asking what I believe?

We're trained, and we learn of who knocks at the door

But that's never happened before

The story unfolds

We're only told

It was written before we spoke

So I sit down and I take notes

How many people lie?

I'm not afraid to die

How many people lie, saying, I'm not afraid to die?

How many people have come up to me and paint their pain like a game?

A cubist persona with no use for a flame but I never cared for the name

What kind of story gives me glory?

I know it sounds quite contradictory

To be the only living thing in my house

To be the just and virtuous spouse

How many people lie?

I'm not afraid to die

How many people lie, saying, I'm not afraid to die?

Can we know, without a doubt?

Can we know, without a doubt?

Can we know, without a doubt?

Can we know, without a doubt?

How many people lie?

I'm not afraid to die

How many people lie, saying, I'm not afraid to die?

Something rises up in me, something I don't want you to see

This delusion that I'm losin' 'sgot my arms striped with bruises

I'm a sinner and a saint but with both parts' shame

And you handed me books and I thought it'd all stop

But I'd painted my black heart with every last drop

I turned the page and the page; it went on like a song

Turned it up real loud but I couldn't sing along

Maybe I'll get it before my judgment day

Or my voice keeps cracking like these jars of clay

Like my feet like the king that I heard in the dream

Or the one who was once called a Philistine

Or maybe the Mannichean or Augustine

Was the word that I heard, was it heresy?

They stripped all the beauty out of the search

So my wayward nature would be still in church

And we're still in church

And we're still in church

Afraid to die

And we're still in church

Yeah, we're all in church

And we're all still afraid to die