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Proof With No Exit lyrics
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Intro
A simple answer feels like rescue when the real world will not sit still. Give confusion one clean villain, give uncertainty a will.
Verse 1
Draw the edge around the ocean, call the curve a camera trick. If the telescope objects, then the telescope is in on it. Experts join the hidden order, photos join the grand disguise. Evidence becomes suspicious at the moment it replies. No result can cross the border, no correction gets admitted. That is not a testable claim, that is armor custom-fitted.
Chorus
Proof with no exit, loss gets re-edited. Doubt is the enemy, questions turn to treachery. Proof with no exit, nothing can finish it. When no result can change the view, what is the claim supposed to prove?
Verse 2
One bench says the worker made it, yet the owner names the share. Medicine should not mean ruin, hunger should not be an heir. Markets can reward the ruthless, wealth can purchase louder laws. Public power can protect us from a private set of claws. Those are serious human questions, not a joke or paper crown. Many roads wear one broad label; some build up and some break down.
Verse 3
Other bench says central planning gathers power in fewer hands. Prices carry scattered knowledge no committee fully commands. When the promised harvest withers, leaders rename what occurred: "Not the model, not the doctrine, just betrayal of the word." Maybe sabotage was present. Maybe pressure bent the frame. But if failure never counts against it, can the theory lose the game?
Chorus
Proof with no exit, loss gets re-edited. Doubt is the enemy, questions turn to treachery. Proof with no exit, nothing can finish it. When no result can change the view, what is the claim supposed to prove?
Verse 4
Then a ladder dressed as freedom: buy the dream, recruit the next. Those above display the outcome, those below become the test. When the bottom loses money, blame their effort, faith, or pace. Never ask if all the winners need more losers in their place. I can crave a cleaner answer. I can want my side absolved. I can turn a bruise to evidence my favorite claim was robbed.
Bridge
Not equal in motive. Not equal in cost. Not equal in history, people helped, people lost. But watch for the structure that cannot be wrong: a door painted open, a verdict made strong.
Chorus
Proof with no exit, loss gets re-edited. Doubt is the enemy, questions turn to treachery. Leave one door for correction, one chance to say, "I was wrong." A belief that survives any answer may survive because the test is gone. Keep one door for correction.
Inside the recording
A simple answer feels like rescue when the real world will not sit still.
Proof with no exit, loss gets re-edited.
Proof with no exit, loss gets re-edited.
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