Full lyrics for Against the Skeptics by Augustinus Vox, including Shadow of a Doubt, Nothing for Certain, I Think, Therefore…, Certainty Bomb, and the full 10-track album
Tracklist
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Nothing for Certain
- I Think, Therefore…
- Certainty Bomb
- Heart and Mind
- The Search Ain’t Over
- Wounded by Beauty
- Voices of the Academy
- Where Reason Ends
- Anchor in the Storm
Shadow of a Doubt
It crept in quiet like a whisper on the breeze
Took my certainties and brought me to my knees
I used to know or thought I did
Now I question every word I ever said
They said be wise don’t trust the light
But living blind don’t make it right
In the shadow of a doubt
I’m reaching out I’m screaming loud
I want to know I want to see
Is there a truth that lives in me
In the shadow in the shadow
Of a doubt
They taught me silence in a world of endless claims
Every answer just another clever game
But I’m not made to float in fear
There’s got to be a voice I need to hear
They said no truth can stand alone
But lies feel heavy when you’re on your own
In the shadow of a doubt
I’m reaching out I’m screaming loud
I want to know I want to see
Is there a truth that lives in me
In the shadow in the shadow
Of a doubt
Maybe I’m wrong
But maybe wrong itself proves right exists
In the shadow of a doubt
Still reaching out still holding out
I want to know I want to be
More than the void they handed me
In the shadow in the shadow
Of a doubt
Nothing for Certain
They smiled with their clever words
Said truth is just a cage of nerves
No one knows they said with flair
Don’t even try there’s nothing there
But deep inside a hunger grows
If nothing’s certain how do they know
Nothing for certain that’s what they claim
But they’re so sure while they curse the name
Of every truth they can’t define
Lost in the loop running out of time
They build with fog they walk on air
Throw down the map pretend it’s fair
But when the storm begins to break
You need a rock not a clever fake
They preach doubt like it’s a creed
But silence doesn’t meet the need
Nothing for certain that’s what they claim
But they’re so sure while they curse the name
Of every truth they can’t define
Lost in the loop running out of time
If I know that I don’t know
Aren’t I still standing on a stone
Doubt can’t live on doubt alone
It needs a seed it never sown
Nothing for certain they try to shout
But I see the cracks in their sacred doubt
Something’s calling in the flame
And I won’t walk away the same
Nothing for certain that’s what they claim
But they’re so sure while they curse the name
Of every truth they can’t define
Lost in the loop running out of time
I Think, Therefore…
They told me nothing’s sure
That thought itself can lie
But here I am still thinking
So tell me who am I
I searched the stars I searched the scrolls
I questioned all I could control
But one truth burned through all the haze
The thinker lives through doubt through maze
Tear down the sky break every frame
But I’m still here I’m not ashamed
I think therefore I am
A soul still standing in the jam
You can mock the words I say
But my own self won’t fade away
I think therefore I shine
Past the wreckage of the skeptic’s line
They tried to bury even me
In layers of uncertainty
But when I doubt I still exist
Their empty storm can’t cover this
They burned the maps they turned the tide
But truth woke up and I’m alive
I think therefore I am
No ghost no glitch no sleight of hand
You can strip my world to flame
But you can’t erase my name
I think therefore I rise
To pierce the veil and clear the skies
If I can doubt then I can know
And from that spark the fire grows
They said no truth but I broke through
The first flame and it burns true
I think therefore I am
Not just a mind but heart and hand
The storm may scream the world may sway
But truth inside won’t fade away
I think therefore I am
Certainty Bomb
They built a house on shifting sand
Told me to join to understand
But I was done with maybe’s maze
I needed fire not a smoky haze
Then one thought struck like thunder rolled
A flash of light a truth to hold
Boom a certainty bomb
Blew up the dark turned the silence on
Not a whisper not a guess
But something deeper in the chest
Boom it shattered the calm
Truth hit hard like a psalm
Now I see now I stand
On more than drifting sand
They said the wise man never claims
That truth is lost in shadows’ games
But every doubt I ever knew
Presumed a truth it never drew
One spark one solid flame
And nothing ever felt the same
Boom a certainty bomb
Lit up the void like a sacred song
No illusion no mirage
Just the echo of a charge
Boom it ended the charm
Of the skeptic’s soft alarm
Now I know now I burn
And there’s no way to return
You doubt to find the truth denied
But truth’s the reason doubt’s alive
Boom a certainty bomb
Truth explodes where fears once swam
No more drifting no more dusk
Just a dawn I know I trust
Boom it silenced the qualms
And broke through doubt with open palms
I believe not blind not calm
But rocked awake by a certainty bomb
A certainty bomb
Heart and Mind
They said the mind alone can guide
But mine was breaking from inside
Thoughts like waves no shore in sight
Reason flickered without light
Then I heard a deeper tone
Something reason can’t own alone
Heart and mind I need them both
To chase the truth to take the oath
Not cold logic not blind flame
But something strong that has a name
Heart and mind together rise
To see with soul to pierce the lies
The skeptics warned of feeling’s snare
But numbness led me nowhere
A frozen thought can’t heal the soul
And doubt alone won’t make you whole
But reason burns when love ignites
And both can guide through darkest nights
Heart and mind I need them both
To chase the truth to take the oath
Not cold logic not blind flame
But something strong that has a name
Heart and mind together rise
To see with soul to pierce the lies
When the mind begins to fail
And the heart begins to wail
It’s in their union I can stand
Truth held not just by head but hand
Heart and mind I need them both
To hold the truth to take the oath
Not torn apart by fear or pride
But side by side they’re sanctified
Heart and mind together rise
To see with love and reason’s eyes
The Search Ain’t Over
They told me to stop to just let go
All roads are dark there’s naught to know
But something deeper stirs in me
A restless fire that won’t let me be
I’ve tasted doubt I’ve walked alone
But still I’m reaching for the stone
The search ain’t over not while I breathe
Not while there’s wonder underneath
I’ve questioned all I’ve fought the night
But something calls beyond the fight
The search ain’t over I still believe
That truth’s the gift we long to receive
They offered silence dressed as peace
But silence never brought release
I’d rather stumble toward the flame
Than stay forever in their game
So let the skeptics mock and spin
I’ll rise again I’m leaning in
The search ain’t over not while I breathe
Not while there’s wonder underneath
I’ve questioned all I’ve fought the night
But something calls beyond the fight
The search ain’t over I still believe
That truth’s the gift we long to receive
Is there meaning
Yes I feel it
Is there hope
Yes I hear it
Is there truth
It burns inside
I won’t let this longing die
The search ain’t over not while I breathe
Not while there’s beauty I perceive
I’ve wandered far I’ve knelt in doubt
But now I’m breaking breaking out
The search ain’t over not till the end
Truth will find the heart that won’t pretend
Wounded by Beauty
A streak of color in the sky
A song that made me want to cry
A whisper in a painted light
That shattered me but felt so right
I couldn’t prove it couldn’t name
But something deep was not the same
I was wounded by beauty
Struck in the soul
Not by logic or by duty
But something whole
A glimpse of glory I can’t defend
But it broke me open to start again
They say it’s nothing just a spark
A trick of light a passing lark
But if it’s hollow why this ache
Why does my sleeping spirit wake
Truth may hide in mystery’s face
But I have touched its trembling grace
I was wounded by beauty
And I still bleed
Not with pain but with the need
To know what called me through that flame
What whispered softly my true name
The stars don’t argue they just shine
And stir a longing that feels divine
A songbird’s cry a child’s smile
Can carry truth across the miles
I was wounded by beauty
And I’m still raw
But in that wound I saw the law
Of something good beyond debate
And I will chase it
Though it makes me wait
Voices of the Academy
We are the wise they proudly say
No truth can last so look away
They wear their doubt like a crown
And drag the searching spirit down
I sat among their learned minds
But found no peace in all their signs
Each voice a maze each word a mask
And still no one would dare to ask
If nothing’s true why do you teach
Why does your gospel even preach
Voices of the Academy
Shouting doubt in harmony
Clever lines and practiced tones
But none can stand alone
Voices of the Academy
Wrap the truth in irony
But something deep won’t bend to flair
Cause even silence shows it’s there
They say doubt is light doubt is wise
But all I see are covered eyes
What if knowing starts with trust
Not just ashes but the dust
And in the noise I heard one chord
A simple flame a single word
Voices of the Academy
Weaving words so tactfully
But I need fire I need breath
Not endless games with death
Voices of the Academy
Falling into parody
I won’t pretend I’ve seen the whole
But I still know I have a soul
Who can say what truth is
Only fools believe they know
Yet I know this I am
Voices of the Academy
Fade to black and tragedy
But I’ve heard a higher sound
Where quiet certainty is found
So let them talk let them claim
But I’ll walk out still knowing my name
Where Reason Ends
I traced the lines as far as they would go
Each proof each thought each undertow
But reason reached a breaking place
And all that stood was silent grace
No map could chart the aching soul
No system ever made me whole
And yet beyond the final page
A whisper stilled the skeptic’s rage
It wasn’t less it was more
A door behind the highest floor
Where reason ends the light begins
A softer truth that breaks the din
It doesn’t shout it doesn’t boast
But draws me near the unseen most
Where reason ends I found a thread
Not just in books but tears I shed
I don’t renounce the mind I bear
But some things breathe in deeper air
The skeptic asks how can you know
I only smile and let it glow
There’s a kind of peace that reason missed
And it began the day I risked
Where reason ends the light begins
A warmth that touches deeper sins
Not just a rule not just a chart
But something written in the heart
Where reason ends I found a way
Where night can turn into the day
I do not cast reason aside
But I let love take it where it could not go alone
Anchor in the Storm
I’ve drifted through the darkest doubt
Heard the thunder felt the rout
Waves of reason winds of fear
But still I found You here
They said the storm would have no end
That faith was just a game pretend
But in the crash I found a place
Not made of pride but made of grace
When truth was tossed and hope was torn
You were my anchor in the storm
Anchor in the storm steady and sure
When nothing else could reassure
You held me fast through wind and wave
You were the truth I didn’t crave
Anchor in the storm silent and deep
The only peace I still could keep
The skeptics shout with practiced rage
But never leave the starting cage
They drown in circles proud and loud
But I found calm beyond the cloud
A thousand doubts may try to swarm
But I’ve got an anchor in the storm
Anchor in the storm steady and true
Even when I ran from You
You didn’t vanish with the tide
You held my soul from deep inside
Anchor in the storm calling me home
Even when I tried to roam
There’s strength not in what I prove
But in the One who does not move
Anchor in the storm You pulled me through
When every fear felt fully true
The storm may rage the world may bend
But You remain until the end
Anchor in the storm still and kind
And now I rest my heart and mind