The second cut on the CD is one of the rockiest musically and deepest philosophically. Some of my all-time favorite artists and bands--including U2, Sting, and Steve Taylor--have used this dichotomy frequently, so I'm not totally alone!
Here's the chorus:
I don't care what you believe / 'cause believing doesn't change a thing / a lie's a lie no matter who believes it / and truth is true, no matter where you go, you know? / yeah, well, you never know
I know the first line is a little misleading, but not so much if you keep listening.
Do I really not care what others believe? Of course I do! My whole life is devoted to spreading the Truth, and I wouldn't even be a Christian if I didn't believe that God is real, Jesus is who He said He was, the Bible is reliable, and that all the other possible answers out there are fundamentally--though rarely completely--wrong. Of course I care. I want everyone else to know and live the truth as much as I want to do so myself.
So what am I trying to say? Two things:
1) Our opinions don't legitimize or negate what is absolutely true or false.
Our job is to discover, to learn, to test, to seek, and to find--not to loudly proclaim and defend the first answer that seems or feels good to us at any given time.
2) Even when we do discover absolute truth, none of us has an absolute grasp on it.
Ultimately, we have to have faith and perseverance to believe and keep believing ANYTHING--even if what we believe in really is true.
Here are the rest of the lyrics from the song:
You imagine, you believe, you can comprehend and conceive
You can try to prove it's so, but you never know
You can think you understand, choose your path, and take a stand
You can find a way you're proud to go, but you never know
You can love, you can hate, you can empathize and relate
You can rush ahead, or you can wait, but you never know
AND
You never know until you try, until you laugh and love and cry
Till you really live or really die
And even if you're sure that I believe a lie
You never know, no, you never know
So what do you guys think about this? Dialogue on deep truths is one of the best ways to get our brains around whatever really is absolutely true or false. So yeah, I really do care what you believe, you know? Oh, yeah, you never know...
