Tripstone Heathen - Unwritten Creed

Then
The page turns for me
I'll find out
I never needed a preacher to teach me
The meaning
Or somebody breathing the doctrine and calling it freedom if
I question the reason, they question
The way that
I'm seeing
Like faith is believing the moment you
Hear it repeated.
I've read through the writings revisions and fragments.
The lines that were altered, omitted, and packaged, translated, and passed out
Through hands that had habits of shaping
The message to match what they wanted established.
So tell me what's safer
When pages get edited.
How can you swear
That the source is definitive?
I'm not
Going to worship a version somebody
Invented just cuz generations before me
Accepted it.
I followed the questions
Instead of the crowd.
Big through the answers and filtered them out.
Kept what
Resonated, rejected the doubt.
Build my
Own faith from the pieces
I found.
I
DON'T CLAIM I'M CERTAIN.
I CLAIM THAT I sEARCHED.
I don't need a label to tell
Me my worth.
If truth can't survive when
I question is worse, then maybe the question was more important first.
This
Is my unwritten greed.
I found some
Truth in what
I can't believe maybe
I'm wrong.
Maybe that's all right
Maybe there's more beyond this life.
I
Won't force a fight that isn't mine.
I
Won't fake an answer just to feel alive
I'll leave what
I don't know where it's
Meant to be.
I'll get to that chapter
When the page turns for me.
I don't need
The heaven to tell me be decent or hell
Is a threat just to keep me obedient.
I
Know how it feels when a person's defeated.
So why would
I hurt them when
Mercy still needed complicated creatures
Were shaped by y seasons by places we
Came from the people and reasons.
We're
Selfish and curious.
We learn from
Experience, then call it our nature
When life is convenient, I don't think
We're finished.
The second we're buried
The body goes back to the matter and carry whatever's beyond it.
I'm willing
To wonder.
Maybe consciousness carries
All past, but we're wonder.
I could be mistaken.
I'm willing to admit it
That's part of the reason
I keep reconsidering.
If
I stop questioning everything
I believe and
I've traded my
Freedom for something to keep.
This is
My unwritten creed.
I found some truth
In what
I can't believe maybe
I'm wrong.
Maybe that's all right
Hey, maybe there's more beyond this life.
I won't force a faith that isn't mine.
I won't fake an answer just to feel alive.
I'll leave what
I don't know
Where it's meant to be.
I bet
I'll get
To that chapter
When the page turns for me.
Maybe all of this is something we inherit
Maybe we're the ones who give the meaning to it.
Baby, when we're gone
There's nothing left to know.
Maybe
Something carries where the physical
Can't go.
I don't need to name it.
I
Don't need to prove it.
Prove it.
If
There's more beyond me, I'll find out when
I lose it.
I don't know.
AND I
WON'T PRETEND.
I'LL QUESTION IT UNTIL
THE END.
Your faith is yours.
MY FAITH
IS MINE.
WE DON'T NEED THE answer to know
WE'RE ALIVE.
YEAH, WE'RE ALIVE
YEAH, we're alive
This is my UNRITTEN CREED.
STILL FINDING
TRUTH IN WHAT I CAN'T PERCEIVE maybe
I'm wrong.
Maybe that's all right
Maybe there's more beyond this life.
I
Won't force a faith that it isn't mine
I won't fake this just to feel alive
I'll leave what
I don't know where it's
Meant to be.
I'LL GET TO THAT CHAPTER
WHEN the page turns for me
When the page turns for me yeah
I'll find out