​of Montreal - Obsidian Currents lyrics

You like to think that you can
Live beyond good and evil
Amputated from humanity
On some lifelong intellectual retreat
Everything is conceptual and
All is rhetorical you can feel so powerful
When you're forced to face the physical world
You scurry like an insect

There is a virus in your tenets
Don't be naive you know it's true
And if you don't protect yourself
Obsidian currents, obsidian currents
Will devour you ah oooh, ah oooh

You have committed yourself
Wholly to the dominion of semantics and ideas
All things cerebral and abstract
With no patience for impractical emotions
Burning everyone who ever tried to
Get close to you
But, you're so lizard-like you
Don't feel any passion
For anything but yourself

There is a virus in your tenets
Don't be naive you know it's true
And if you don't protect yourself
Obsidian currents, obsidian currents
Will devour you ah oooh, ah oooh