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[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
Obsidian Currents was written by Kevin Barnes.
Obsidian Currents was produced by Kevin Barnes.
of Montreal released Obsidian Currents on Tue Oct 08 2013.
That one is much easier to explain. That one was one of those songs where you’re talking to yourself—just kind of warning myself against being too cynical and detached. That song is one that I started writing before I went to San Francisco, but I didn’t have all the lyrics, just a rough sketch. I gu...