Doubt is a 2008 film adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize winning fictive stage play Doubt: A Parable. Written and directed by Shanley and produced by Scott Rudin, the film stars Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. It premiered October 30, 2008 at the AFI Fest before being distributed by Miramax Films in limited release on December 12, 2008 and in wide release on December 25.
The film's four main actors were heavily praised for their acting, and all of them were nominated for Oscars at the 81st Academy Awards. Viola Davis received her first nomination and Amy Adams received her second nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Philip Seymour Hoffman received his second nomination of Best Supporting Actor, and third overall, while Meryl Streep received her twelfth nomination for Best Actress and her fifteenth overall.
Set in 1964 at a Catholic church in the Bronx, New York, the film opens with the progressive-minded Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) giving a sermon on the nature of doubt, noting that, like faith, it can be a unifying force. The next evening, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), the strict and conservative principal of the attached school, discusses the sermon with her fellow nuns, the Sisters of Charity of New York. She asks if anyone has observed unusual behavior that would inspire Father Flynn to preach about doubt, and instructs them to keep their eyes open should any such behavior occur in future.
Stop my flight to fight
And die
And take a stand to change my life
So savage with red desperation
I clench my hands
You draw your claws
A hidden rage consumes my heart
As fuelled by years of wasted time
I close my eyes
And tense myself
And screaming
Throw myself in fury over the edge
And into your blood
Tear at flesh
And rip at skin
And smash at doubt
I have to break you
Fury drives my vicious blows
I see you fall but still I strike you
Again and again
Your body falls
The movement is sharp and clear and pure
And gone
I stop and kneel beside you
Drained of everything but pain
Screaming throw myself in fury
Over the edge and into your blood
Kiss you once and see you writhe
Hold you close and hear you cry
Kiss your eyes and finish your life
Finish your life
Again and again
Your body falls
The movement is sharp and clear and pure
And gone
I stop and kneel beside you
Knowing I'll murder you again tonight
Stop my flight to fight
And die
And take a stand to change my life
So savage with red desperation
I clench my hands
You draw your claws
A hidden rage consumes my heart
Fuelled by years of wasted time
I close my eyes
And tense myself
And screaming
Throw myself in fury over the edge
And into your blood
Tear at flesh
And rip at skin
And smash at doubt
I have to break you
Fury drives my vicious blows
I see you fall but still I strike you
Again and again
Your body falls
The movement is sharp and clear and pure
And gone
I stop and kneel beside you
Drained of everything but pain
Screaming throw myself in fury
Over the edge and into your blood
Kiss you once and see you writhe
Hold you close and hear you cry
Kiss your eyes and finish your life
Kiss your eyes
Finish your life
Again and again
Your body falls
The movement is sharp and clear and pure
And gone
I stop and kneel beside you
Knowing I'll murder you again tonight
Knowing I'll murder you again
Knowing I'll murder you again
Knowing I'll murder you again
Knowing I'll murder you again
Doubt will kill you
Youth passed away
Amongst the various controls of resignation
Unmistakable
Appeal of the marvelous
Doubt doubt doubt doubt...
Is it enough to show
How the nightmare works
So the people will wake up
Is it enough?
(claude s.)
Sometimes, I get excited about nothing at all...
Sometimes, I get so jaded and stare at the walls...
Does she love me? yes she does!
Does she want me? yes she does!
Does she need me? yes she does sometimes...
Sometimes, I get infected in a super high...
Sometimes, a high on energy
Within her mind...
Sometimes, I can't forget the letters that she sends...
Sometimes, I sleep all day and night:
It's all in vain...
Does she love me? yes she does!
Does she want me? yes she does!
Does she need me? yes she does sometimes...sometimes...
I'm only happy, when I'm dreaming of her eyes...
She's only happy, when she's dreaming in my arms...
I love her so...
Does she love me? yes she does!
Does she want me? yes she does!
[Instrumental]
You can crawl, you can walk
You can beg or you can talk
There'll always be broken bones
You can crawl, you can walk
You can beg or you can talk
There'll always be broken bones
Broken bones, broken bones
Broken bones, broken bones
You can crawl, you can walk
You can beg or you can talk
There'll always be broken bones
You can crawl, you can walk
You can beg or you can talk
There'll always be broken bones
You can crawl, you can walk
(Yeah, yeah)
You can beg or you can talk
(Ooh)
There'll always be broken bones
Broken bones, broken bones
Broken bones, broken bones
(w graber)
Hey - and did you want to help me out?
And help this fear and help this doubt
For what it's worth I have my doubts
So - when all is good and all is right
And you make day from what is night
I found this balance nature's right
[chorus]
Take this down and put it somewhere safe
And when it dies you'll call it rape
If thoughts are life then I don't think
So tell me who it was this time
Now - now climb the side of marburg cliff
With blood red moss instead of dirt
It's filled with every fear that's lurked
Well - well if you're counting, count on us
We'll help you find what you have loss
Well if it counts you've lost my trust
[chorus]
So this right I have my doubts
So this is something I have my doubts
He only sees what he wants
It serves to fool and distract him
While slowly everything's haunted, cursed and stained
His temple that was his home
Showed itself as mere cold stone
To finally feel all alone is horribly purifying
[CHORUS:]
And it's doubt that fills my head
Dreadful doubt dripping in dread
Leave me to live in my own world
I've had enough of yours
Follow the program and make plans
To become self-assured
Didn't end up the golden champion
Ended up on the floor
[CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
Paid all the dues I could afford
But what was due me got lost
Found I had gained some small respect
But I get little more
They say if at first you don't succeed
Leave well enough alone
Could never live just for the dollar
Sometimes in life I get a feeling inside
Which makes me sick and brings along another crisis in life
I feel the doubts rising up are you still there for me
Or is patricks name just a misprint on the roll
I've been to so many places
Seen so many faces
And I know something about different cultures and races
People keep on asking me is there a christ
But how can I be sure when i don't know if it's a lie
I love you lord
Please make me sure
Fill me up
I got so much love to take
Wanna push my doubts away
Fill me up
I got so much love to take
Gimme strength to break the fakes
I really hate this feeling not to be sure if there's a God
And Iknow i should not have it wanna set free my mind
When destiny strikes back right into my face
I want you to be the one who holds me up to the surface
And when everything comes down and my ground starts to shake
So please stay on my mind and get quiet to this earthquake
You are my number one and my first in life
So please free me from this dubios state of mind
I love you lord
Please make me sure
Fill me up...
Can you hear me
Can you hear my call
I wanna be set free from my anxious doubts
I love you! I love you beyond a reasonable doubt! I love you and I'd like to take you out to the barn and beat you with a manure-caked stick!
I love you! I love you beyond a reasonable doubt! I love you and I'd like to take you out to the barn and beat you with a manure-caked stick!
Lanterns in view
Warm breath is thin
Stems of light
In the cold, in the cold still of night
Careless as any hidden spark
Spreads quickly to the darkest places
Ohhhh - there's doubt
Ohhhh - there's doubt
Deadbolts guard against
Stave off the chance
Of a break away, away from this cloudy place
Spellbound by the stripping of the walls
You're leaving here with all this doubt
Ohhhh - there's doubt
Ohhhh - there's doubt
Doubt, there's doubt
What you celebrate
The errors from here from the errors you made
Doubt, there's doubt
To love as you should
The trouble, the time that you did all you could
Doubt
Doubt
Doubt
Today yes right now, the Lord is asking
He's asking for you, Your time has come
It is already here, for He's calling right for you
Yes you have your kind of faith, but is neutral
And life is surrounded with lots of doubt
I have met you
And I know, oh I know you
They call you religious, but I wish
Oh I wish, I wish that you were a Christian
Yes you have your kind of faith, but is neutral
And life is surrounded with lots of doubt
Yes you have your kind of faith, but is neutral
And life is surrounded with lots of doubt
I wish you would live as you teach
And that the Lord could live in you
That your doubts would turn into a victory song
For He's calling, calling right for you
Yes you have your kind of faith, but is neutral
I admit it
I'm a victim to myself
My own worst enemy
I fear all your judgement
even if its in my head
Self doubt keeps pulling
and I am losing
I can't talk to all you
I'm afraid of what you'll say
Paranoia keeps me quiet
But I've got a lot to say
I make a mountain out of the mole hill in my mind
So here I stand before you
a humbled man
I know
Chasing after everything you do
You don't know what this feels like
And after all the pain I felt from you
Chasing after everything you do
You don't know what this feels like
Tell myself it's everything I do
You don't know what this feels like
But you destroy me and complete me too
And I don't what I'd do without you
But as far as I can see
The only truth with you and me
Is that I think I'll still enjoy my life without you
And I'll be fine
Believe me, I'm okay
Believe me, I'll be fine
So stay away
And then the days grew cold,
Shudder children,
Gather together in the warmth of the firelight’s glow,
And the ground grew cold,
Split like the skin and parched like the hollow of a
dead man’s bones.
Well, I’ve been waiting for you such a long time,
Sometimes I think you ain’t ever coming back, oh.
And then the myth was clear,
The drumming of pagans still echoing in the halls of
remembrance,
And now the truth is clear,
One man is all that is clear in the warmth of the
firelight’s dance.
Well, I’ve been waiting for you such a long time,
Sometimes I think you ain’t ever coming back.
Well, I’ve been waiting for you such a long time,
Sometimes I think you ain’t ever coming back.
And I am the autumn wind in the days a man must fear,
As the crooked man grows bent, I am the bitterness in
his tears,
What a selfish man will sow into this cold and barren
ground is the truth behind every lie,
That’s where the emptiness is found, is found, is
Doubt:
kinda like the way you told me
it'll be ok and then we
talked about the weather
and how nice its been to feel the rain
kinda like the same old feeling
I know that's your way of dealing
we shook our heads and laughed
forgot about all of that
but i recognize you now
you got past my guard somehow
let's forget about
all of that doubt
all that doubt
all of that doubt
kinda like the way we always
talked about our lives like stories
we may not end up the same
but everybody plays the game
kinda like the way you'd find us
the next day and you'd remind us
we'd loose our heads and we'd
forget about all you said
but i recognize you now
you got past my guard somehow
let's forget about
all of that doubt
all that doubt
all of that doubt
kinda like the day i lost you
i'd like to pay but this just costs to
much for me and now i think
i'll buy myself another drink
but i recognize you now
you got past my guard somehow
let's forget about
all of that doubt
all that doubt
Doubt could do me in, could do me
Doubt could do me in, could leave me out
Could do me in, could be my end
Could do me in, again
Why would anyone
Ever want to bring you down
You look so beautiful
Whenever you are way up high
Why would anyone
Ever want to turn you around
The minute it's yours
They just want to change your mind
Doubt could do me in, could do me
Doubt could do me in, could leave me out
Could do me in, could be my end
Could do me in, again
Doubt could find me
Leave me helpless
Doubt could find me
Please don't let it
I'm barely alive
And in my eyes I'm slipping
That's where you want me
That's where you want me
Doubt could do me in, could do me
Doubt could do me in, could leave me out
Could do me in, could be my end
Could do me in, again
We don't need Big Brother
We'll do it ti each other
Oh, yeah
Doubt could do me in, could do me
Doubt could do me in, could leave me out
Could do me in, could be my end
Could do me in, again
Why would anyone
Ever want to bring you down
You look so beautiful
Whenever you are way up high
Wanting meaning wanting more, than the same things
Wanting everything just to start at the ending
I've found another face to show
Just because what you say is what will go
Chorus
Doubt, in it all for me
I've hit the wall, all thats left for you is doubt
better you than me, I've so far to fall
All that's left for you is doubt
In it all for me, I've hit the wall
All thats left for you is doubt
better you than me,
I've so far to fall,
but I can't change now
missing the life gone by that I have lost
Missing the better times that I have lost
when you're near me I get tired when you follow
When you speak what you say is what will go
will go... you say is what will go...
Doubt, in it all for me
I've hit the wall, all thats left for you is doubt
better you than me, I've so far to fall
All that's left for you is doubt
In it all for me, I've hit the wall
All thats left for you is doubt
better you than me,
You'll know when this is done
If you comprehend
Calculated hate in subtlety
So know that I'm the one
Come to bring the end
Poisoning your safety
Deep down inside you
Too far to undo
When all your confidence dies
You feel it burning
Twisting and turning
I hope it eats you alive
EAT YOU ALIVE
I've come to plant a seed
Of gradual decay
Swallowing your faith entirely
I'm watching as it feeds
On insecurity
Leaving you with nothing
Deep down inside you
Too far to undo
When all your confidence dies
You feel it burning
Twisting and turning
I hope it eats you alive
EAT YOU ALIVE
EAT YOU ALIVE
SELF-SYCOPHANT
GROTESQUE ARROGANCE
BURSTING WITH SHALLOW CONCEIT
PUSHING THIS THROUGH
THE WEAKNESS IN YOU
INFECTING YOU WITH THIS DISEASE
Deep down inside you
Too far to undo
When all your confidences dies
You feel it burning
Twisting and turning
I hope it eats you alive
EAT YOU ALIVE
Twisting and turning
I hope it eats you alive
EATS YOU ALIVE
If you should doubt
My heart
Remember this
That I would lie to you
If I believed it was
Right to do
If you should think
Instead
I would forget
All the lives I save
Were not meant for me
And meant for you
That would be the test
I could not forgive
Only that
To doubt the only way
That what was true before
Is true today
What I have learned
Of you
Does not assure
You bow before my will
But I believed it then
Believe it still
Oh, I believed it then
You doubt if there's a heaven
You doubt if there's a hell
You doubt if you'll remember
All the stories they would tell
It's a terrible feeling
Living and dealing with doubt
You've doubted your existence
You doubt if there's a truth
Your plan starts to crumble
But you cannot stand to lose
You're back where you started from
covering yourself in doubt
You doubted your mother
And you doubted your dad
You doubted your sisters
And any brothers you had
It's a bad situation
Living and loving with doubt
Well, you doubted the beginning
And I'm sure you doubt the end
You doubted your teachers
You doubt all your friends
It's an overwhelming sensation
Confrontation with doubt
I don't know why I started
I don't know if I'll finish
I wonder why I try at all
Sometimes I wonder why I try at all
Doubt can make a strong man
Weaken under stress
And doubt can make a weak man
totally worthless
God, it's a pity
Doubt
You stage your finale
With meticulous care
your view is consistent
And then out of nowhere
Your vision is clouded
Staring at the empty room
Was there ever a reason to stay
Strangely familiar this whole place feels
She doubts herself again
She fears that today might finally be, be the day
She's packing up her memories, just a few things she should keep
It doesn't even pay for her to bring such torn and tattered things
Glistening tears surround the truth
She doubts herself again
A meaningless collection and all the pain it brings
Have the streets always been this cold at night
Suffering hearts would know
Has she really been alone this time
Letting sorrow grow
Is she gonna make it out tonight
Hard to clear her mind
Let go of what she thought was right
And leave despair behind
Control her trembling fingers, she fumbles with the key
She's trapping all the things inside she'll never have to see
Her shallow breathing fills the hall
She doubts herself again
She's tells herself it is the day that she will be free
Have the streets always been this cold at night
Suffering hearts would know
Has she really been alone this time
Letting sorrow grow
Is she gonna make it out tonight
Hard to clear her mind
Let go of what she thought was right
And leave despair behind
Step into the morning glare
Contrast to the day
Sunlight brings her back to life
She doubts she'll come again
She drops her things down on the ground and slowly walks away
Staring at the empty room
Was there ever a reason to stay
Was there ever a reason to stay
Strangely familiar this whole place feels
Strangely familiar this whole place feels
She doubts herself again
Today is today
Today is the day
She doubts she'll come again
She doubts she'll come again
She doubts she'll come again
Giants at Large - Doubt
Cue the sounds
This is the part I doubt myself
I'm so predictable
I'm no original
It scares me to death
Cause I'm running in place
Going no where
Lyrical
Are these words to literal?
Is this the perfect sound?
Can you express yourself?
It scares me to death
Cause I'm running in place
Going no where
It's times like these
We fall apart
We use our heads
And not our...
Fictional
Barely believable
So ring the bell
This is me tapping out
It scares me to death
Cause I'm running in place
Going no where
It's times like these
We fall apart
We use our heads
Would I call your name
Through the ruins of emptied halls?
Could I see your face
Within passions yet unborn?
Speak fragile truths into the air
So new and cold
Could I lie to you?
Could I live this life alone?
Fade to the year's cascading dreams of hope and light
Through vacant thoughts the eve is found in stormy skies
To the years cascading dreams of hope and loss
Our painted world shall see an end to all we find
Would I take your hand
Would I lead you from the mist
In another place
Where the sun can never set?
Years carry us into the certainty of doubt
Could I lie to you?
Could I leave you here alone?
Soon enough the ice will break
Falling down lost in melting years
Soon enough the dawn awakens
Holding tight memories of our love