[Guitar riff; drums drop to a quiet backbeat] [Spoken - Vox, playful] Augustine gives us something we can try together. One plus two plus three plus four? [Audience, one clear answer] Ten! [Spoken - Vox] He asks us to seek truth with that kind of certainty, without giving up hope of finding it. Kyle asked if the answer changes when the bass gets louder. [Brief pause] Gravitas has agreed to conduct the experiment. [Short bass flourish; audience laughs] One secure truth doesn't answer everything. It does challenge the claim that nothing can be known. [Full band enters the original song] [Original song - retain its melody and lyric order] 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 [After the original final title; bass and drums hold the groove] [Spoken - Vox] One plus two plus three plus four? [Audience] Ten! [One resolving full-band hit; cheers]
