"Science" - System of a Down

Making two possibilities a reality,
Predicting the future of things we all know,
Fighting off the diseased programming
Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries.

Science fails to recognize the single most
Potent element of human existence:
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith.

Science has failed our world
Science has failed our Mother Earth.

Science fails to recognize the single most
Potent element of human existence:
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith.

Science has failed our world
Science has failed our Mother Earth.
Spirit-moves-through-all-things {x5}

Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith.
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith.

Science has failed our world
Science has failed our Mother Earth.

Spirit-moves-through-all-things {x12}
Science has failed our Mother Earth.



SOAD uses repetition of key phrases in the song "Science" to illustrate how turning our backs on religion in favor of a purely scientific world is destroying us.

The first phrase that is introduced to later be repeated is
"Science fails to recognize the single most
Potent element of human existence:
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith."
Not only is this phrase repeated three times throughout the song, but the word "faith" itself appears a total of twelve times. This repition serves to make a distinct point that faith is the most important aspect of human existence.

"Science has failed our world, Science has failed our Mother Earth" is said on four seperate occasions throughout this piece. This is a clear statement that keys the listener in to the opinion of the song writer. He believes that by turning to a purely scientific standpoint, our world has lost the thing that keeps it going in the right direction - faith.

Finally, the phrase "Spirit moves through all things," which is repeated seventeen times, refers to the possibility of science being proven wrong, whereas faith is more flexible and ultimately more influential.