Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Beware of Virtue (20K Version) lyrics
[Akira The Don, Alan Watts - Beware of Virtue 20K Version lyrics]
And what seems a good thing today
Turns out tomorrow to have been a disaster
What seemed in the moral
Spiritual sphere too
Like great virtues in times past
Are easily seen today as hideous evils
Let's take, for example, the Inquisition
In it's own day, among Catholics
The Holy Inquisition was regarded as we
Today regard the practice of psychiatry
You, you see, you feel that in
Curing the person of cancer
Almost anything is justified
The most complex operation, the
Most weird surgery
People suspended for days and days on end on
The еnd of tubes with x ray penetration
Burning, pеople undergoing shock treatment
People locked in the colorless
Monotonous corridors of mental institutions
In all good faith
They knew that witchcraft and
Heresy were terrible things
Awful plagues imperiling people's souls
Forever and ever
So any means were justified to
Cure people of heresy we don’t change
We don't change
We're doing the same thing today
But under different names
We don't change (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
We're doing the same thing today
But under different names
We can look back at those people
And see how evil that was
But we can't see it in ourselves
So therefore, beware of virtue
We don't change
We're doing the same thing today
But under different names
We don't change (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
We're doing the same thing today
Under different names
We don't change
We're doing the same thing today
But under different names
We don't change (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
We're doing the same thing today
Under different names
So therefore, beware of virtue
So therefore, beware beware of virtue
Turns out tomorrow to have been a disaster
What seemed in the moral
Spiritual sphere too
Like great virtues in times past
Are easily seen today as hideous evils
Let's take, for example, the Inquisition
In it's own day, among Catholics
The Holy Inquisition was regarded as we
Today regard the practice of psychiatry
You, you see, you feel that in
Curing the person of cancer
Almost anything is justified
The most complex operation, the
Most weird surgery
People suspended for days and days on end on
The еnd of tubes with x ray penetration
Burning, pеople undergoing shock treatment
People locked in the colorless
Monotonous corridors of mental institutions
In all good faith
They knew that witchcraft and
Heresy were terrible things
Awful plagues imperiling people's souls
Forever and ever
So any means were justified to
Cure people of heresy we don’t change
We don't change
We're doing the same thing today
But under different names
We don't change (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
We're doing the same thing today
But under different names
We can look back at those people
And see how evil that was
But we can't see it in ourselves
So therefore, beware of virtue
We don't change
We're doing the same thing today
But under different names
We don't change (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
We're doing the same thing today
Under different names
We don't change
We're doing the same thing today
But under different names
We don't change (Nah, nah, nah, nah)
We're doing the same thing today
Under different names
So therefore, beware of virtue
So therefore, beware beware of virtue