From the recording Science
Science, the title track, is the album’s central reflection — a song that questions the limits of a purely mechanistic worldview while honouring the human longing for clarity, meaning, and truth. It explores how science, when reduced to cold certainty, can lose sight of wonder, humility, and the mystery that first inspired it. Ultimately, it calls for a deeper, more human science: one that sees the world as alive, interconnected, and worthy of awe.
Lyrics
You know Descartes as a revered man
Philosopher and thinker
He said
I think therefore I am
From the 16th century
He’s said to be the pioneer
Of scientific thought
For all mankind
The Age of Enlightenment was born
But what you may not know
Is that he thought
Be careful what you think
Only humans have a soul
Soul
Everything else was mechanical
And had no feelings at all
Welcome to the machine
He practised vivisection
Believing animals felt no pain
Be careful what you believe
Had no sentience
He cut the hearts open of live dogs
Yes live dogs
And said to qualify as a scientist
You should kick your dog
You should kick your dog
For it’s a mere machine
Only a machine
Today science is stuck in this mechanistic view
Maybe he’s not revered so much after all
Yeah after all
Be careful with what belief system you choose
Or it can come back and haunt you
And be a distortion that takes centuries to reveal
To remove
Science should not be bound by our beliefs
Science should not be bound by our beliefs
So often we put our beliefs on science
Holding on tight
And rigidly believing them even when evidence doesn’t fit
Does not fit
Does not fit
Nor make sense
No sense is made
So therefore it is not
It is not
May we always have our minds open wide
Always have our minds open wide
May we always have our minds open wide
Always have our minds open wide
Wide
May we always have our minds open wide
Always have our minds open wide
Wide
Wide
Wide
Wide
So let the old assumptions fall
The ones that kept us blind
For life is more than a mechanism
And truth is not confined
To models built on certainties
That never truly fit
The data keeps on whispering
There’s more to all of this
And when we free our questions
From the cages of the past
A richer science rises
One that’s finally built to last
Built to last
Oo Yeah