Intellectual Humility

I built a tower out of evidence

Footnotes nailed into the sky

Every contradiction circled red

Every question classified

I knew the angles of the argument

Mapped the fracture line by line

Never noticed while I measured them

The ruler bending in my mind

(Pre-Chorus)

Truth arrived without a banner

No parade, no victory drum

Just a quiet rearranging

Of the things I’d once become

(Chorus)

Intellectual humility

The hardest lesson I have learned

Not every fire needs defending

Not every bridge deserves to burn

Somewhere between certainty and silence

Past the noise and tribal loyalty

There’s a door that only opens

When you’re willing to be wrong

Intellectual humility

(Verse 2)

Everybody wears a uniform

Stitched together from their fears

Family names and borrowed slogans

Accumulated through the years

We call it conviction when it’s comfortable

Call it courage when it’s ours

But every sacred constellation

Looks different from another star