From the recording Agnostic Hymns / Secular Psalms
2. “Faith” – an electronics driven song in acknowledgement of the power of faith. Some folks believe in an all powerful entity; others simply don’t. Others still, believe in science. This song attributes and posits all these positions.
I am myself agnostic (I genuinely do not know if there is a God or not), but I lived in Indonesia for a number of years – and was there very impressed by the faith and discipline exhibited by Muslim friends. So I can very much appreciate the role faith plays in many people’s lives and want to pay respect to that, even if I don’t share that sense myself.
Lyrics
Faith
Some say
They have faith
They pray to God
For redemption
Others say
There is no way
There is a God
It’s all fiction
Clear to see
How faith
Gives strength and meaning
To your lives and
Impressive
How forgiveness
Discipline
Shapes the way you live
Live your life
In good faith
And try
The best way that you can
Give and forgive
All the differences
Between you and I
Some think
That science’ll bring
Us all the answers
To our questions
Others think that
Some things
Are beyond us all
Our comprehension
But why cop-out
Delegate upwards?
All your doubt
All your thinking
Why not try
For yourself
To do the maths
The quantum physics
Live your life
In good faith
And try
The best way that you can
Give and forgive
All the differences
Between you and I
Without doubt there is no
Room for me
No room for me
Or anyone else
Without doubt there is no
Room for me
No room for anyone
So
Live your life
In good faith
And try
The best way that you can
Give and forgive
All the differences
Between you and I
You gotta believe in something
Everyone has their faith
You gotta believe in something
Everyone has their faith