For some years I’ve had a motto that I’ve expressed something like this: Out of six billion people there are people bound to have a more well-founded opinion than you – be prepared to change.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that I go around constantly longing for being proven wrong, but it’s a reminder to be open to the fact that I don’t know everything. In an era of opinions over facts, and facts being reduced to ’my subjective experience and anecdotal evidence says differently’ it may be wise to have this constant reminder as a mental post-it before your eyes. In this song, I try to express just that; not longing for my beliefs, but also not clinging to them like everlasting certainties.
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I don’t long
to be proven wrong
But I’m not sure I care
for certainty
in one belief
I don’t know
I don’t know if I do need to know
If things are what they seem or no
I could grow, but no wiser though
And I used to feel sure,
now I know
I can’t hold on to all I am told
that some statements are just made in bold
But still, there is no truth in the mold
It’s a slope of a road
In the end who was right? I don’t know
Was it Heidegger, Marx or Foucault?
If there are secrets to life
then there’s more than one kind
Do you see, I don’t know
I don’t long
to be proven wrong
But I’m not sure I care
for certainty
in one belief
”Heidegger, Marx or Foucault” is a part of my debut album ”Darkness on the edge of ecstasy” out now on Sonar Kollektiv!