Certainty
Black Veil Brides · Certainty
So certain every day you have found the perfect way
To guard the lions from the slaughter you have started
And thank god you never say what you're never meant to say
With iron might you drink up all your sorrows
Fame is the torch you burn
You decide who shines
You were lost and I have tried to save
But something I said has made me the other
Certain of the price that I should pay
All of my pride and fear at the altar
I retrace now, every countdown
And my mind clicks like heart beats
Do you want to cut my tongue out
Serve it up and silence me?
You're not the answer to the question
I'm not the saviour you thought I'd be
Even still I wonder, do you hear me
When you remember that I bleed?
You were lost and I have tried to save
But something I said has made me the other
Certain of the price that I should pay
All of my pride and fear at the altar
And now I know
That there's something brighter I just can't see...
Let it go
You were lost and I have tried to save
But something I said has made me the other
Certain of the price you'll never pay
And all my pride and fear will take me down
Certainty
“Certainty” is a song about the damage done when power disguises itself as moral clarity. Its opening accuses someone of protecting the very forces they helped unleash, then turns toward the speaker’s own complicity: pride and fear have been laid down at an altar, and an earlier attempt to save the other person has made the narrator a target. The lyric’s recurring word, certainty, becomes less a virtue than a mechanism for silencing dissent. The sharpest question—whether the speaker’s tongue is to be cut out—makes that threat physical.
Yet the song avoids a simple division between a righteous victim and an all-powerful enemy. The narrator admits to having said something consequential and asks whether the other person still hears him. There is guilt mixed into the accusation, and the resulting conflict feels intimate as well as political. Fame, authority and sacrifice are presented as forces that decide who is allowed to shine and who must pay. The song’s language suggests that public judgment often demands a clean story even when the people inside it are confused and wounded.
Consequence named the track its “Heavy Song of the Week,” describing it as part of Black Veil Brides’ artistic evolution; Music Scene Media also reviewed the single favorably. That coverage places the song in a period of stylistic change, but its own lyric is what gives the title its bite. Certainty here is not the comfort of knowing what is right. It is the danger of believing that conviction excuses the harm one causes, or that silencing the person who questions you will make the question disappear.