[ti:Obsidian Currents]
[ar:Of Montreal]
[00:17.62]You like to think that you can
[00:21.25]Live beyond good and evil
[00:26.64]
[00:30.70]Amputated from humanity
[00:34.33]On some lifelong intellectual retreat
[00:42.12]
[00:44.62]Everything is conceptual and
[00:48.05]All is rhetorical
[00:50.05]You can feel so powerful
[00:56.86]When you're forced to face the physical world
[01:02.16]You scurry like an insect
[01:08.59]
[01:09.91]There is a virus in your tenets
[01:13.26]Don't be naive  you know it's true
[01:17.01]And if you don't protect yourself
[01:22.28]Obsidian currents  Obsidian currents
[01:29.26]
[01:33.24]Will devour you
[01:36.16]
[02:08.29]You have committed yourself
[02:11.85]Wholly to the dominion of semantics and ideas
[02:21.67]All things cerebral and abstract
[02:26.09]No patience for impractical emotions
[02:34.15]
[02:35.65]Burning everyone who
[02:39.17]Ever try to get close to you
[02:47.29]
[02:48.67]But you're so lizard-like you don't
[02:52.25]Feel any passion for anything but yourself
[02:58.83]
[03:00.77]There is a virus in your tenets
[03:03.88]Don't be naive  you know it's true
[03:07.63]And if you don't protect yourself
[03:13.00]Obsidian currents Obsidian currents
[03:19.23]
[03:23.73]Will devour you