What Can We Prove

[Pre-Chorus]
Count it, check it, mark the source,
Trace each claim back to its course.
If the numbers speak, let them speak plain;
Ask again, test again.

[Chorus]
Gather the fragments, sort what we know,
Keep one eye on the proof below.
Old words travel, but claims must survive;
Name what is measured, keep wonder alive.
When the wanderer returns through the blue,
The past asks plainly: what can we prove?

[Verse 2]
Babel broke apart, two sticks held the span,
A tablet crossed the borders hand to hand.
Arabic ink to Newton's desk, each link in view,
A chain is only strong if the links ring true.
One hundred forty-four, counted on the wall,
A number is a measure, not the answer to it all.
Comet, channel, cipher—write the source beside the name,
Separate the evidence from the story and the fame.

[Pre-Chorus]
Count it, check it, mark the source,
Trace each claim back to its course.
If the numbers speak, let them speak plain;
Ask again, test again.

[Bridge]
Iron cools down, but the pages stay,
Pilot reads twice, then tests the way.
No borrowed certainty, no sealed decree,
Let wonder ask; let evidence speak.
Check the date, check the hand, check the trail,
If the proof falls short, say so without fail.

[Final Chorus]
Gather the fragments, sort what we know,
Keep one eye on the proof below.
Old words travel, but claims must survive;
Name what is measured, keep wonder alive.
Halley circles on; years pass through,
The past asks plainly: what can we prove?

[Outro]
What can we prove? Check the source, check the view.
What can we prove? Let the evidence through.

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[Verse 1] Halley in the ledger, centuries in motion, Questions cut a path through the ink and the ocean. Giotto in the passage, stone against the night, A distant moving body made visible in flight. Fourteen point four two, pin it to the page, Measure what you can; don't mistake it for a cage. Keep the record separate from the feeling that it brings, A fact can hold its shape while a rumor grows wings. [Pre-Chorus] Count it, check it, mark the source, Trace each claim back to its course. If the numbers speak, let them speak plain; Ask again, test again. [Chorus] Gather the fragments, sort what we know, Keep one eye on the proof below. Old words travel, but claims must survive; Name what is measured, keep wonder alive. When the wanderer returns through the blue, The past asks plainly: what can we prove? [Verse 2] Babel broke apart, two sticks held the span, A tablet crossed the borders hand to hand. Arabic ink to Newton's desk, each link in view, A chain is only strong if the links ring true. One hundred forty-four, counted on the wall, A number is a measure, not the answer to it all. Comet, channel, cipher—write the source beside the name, Separate the evidence from the story and the fame. [Pre-Chorus] Count it, check it, mark the source, Trace each claim back to its course. If the numbers speak, let them speak plain; Ask again, test again. [Chorus] Gather the fragments, sort what we know, Keep one eye on the proof below. Old words travel, but claims must survive; Name what is measured, keep wonder alive. When the wanderer returns through the blue, The past asks plainly: what can we prove? [Bridge] Iron cools down, but the pages stay, Pilot reads twice, then tests the way. No borrowed certainty, no sealed decree, Let wonder ask; let evidence speak. Check the date, check the hand, check the trail, If the proof falls short, say so without fail. [Final Chorus] Gather the fragments, sort what we know, Keep one eye on the proof below. Old words travel, but claims must survive; Name what is measured, keep wonder alive. Halley circles on; years pass through, The past asks plainly: what can we prove? [Outro] What can we prove? Check the source, check the view. What can we prove? Let the evidence through.

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