The Script - Science & Faith

YES! That was my reaction to hearing the title track from The Script's second album has finally been scheduled for a single release. You know the feeling; you get yourself an artist's new album and one song, more than any other, you fall head over heels in love with. And you wait months and months, hoping and praying that it will be released as a single so the general public at large can share in just how utterly amazing that song is. two or three singles might go past; other, lesser choices from the album, but finally, at long last, they put out that song.

I've experienced it before with Kylie's The One and Girls Aloud's Untouchable, and now I get to experience it again with Science & Faith. I still, to this day, remember when I first heard the track and was bowled over by the breathtaking melody of the chorus and the heartfelt anthem to searching for love that this song encompasses. It's a theme the Script have always excelled at, but here, they nail it once again.

With its opening crystalline, ringing, U2-like guitar hook, we quickly descends into reverberating chords, the blank pages for the band to paint the intense emotion of their lyrics upon. Maybe it's just coincidence, or maybe it's fate, but The Script's singles always seem to soundtrack certain vivid moments of my life that I can recall perfectly years later. these lyrics will hold their own meaning for me, as I'm sure they will for each and every listener.

'You won't faith and hope down a telescope, you won't find heart and soul in the stars. You can break everything down to chemicals, but you can't explain a love like ours...'

The real beauty of this song is that it endorses such a romantic view of love. Study the inner workings of attraction and desire all you want; but this scientific approach to something as magical as love with never work. Look at it in the most microscopic level of detail, and you'll still miss the raw power that untamed love can hold.

I think we all have our own ways in which faith, of whatever kind, has worked its way into our lives; and in this tale of love and the mysteries it will forever hold, The Script have come up with something wondrous and truly magical.