I'M SOCRATES Lyrics

I went down to Piraeus yesterday with Glaucon, son of Ariston, to pray to the goddess, and at the same time I wanted to observe how they would put on the festival

These words come from great fortune, sent down from the divine

A word can hold a meaning for awhile

Your opinion remains as the advantage of the stronger

Create a vivid image in your mind of what I am about to tell you:

I've reached a point of understanding with myself where I am sure that there is only one thing that I know, and that is nothing

And when I realize this I stand up and look around the room to see that I am surrounded by fluorescent lights and concrete walls and plastic chairs and LEDs and computer screens and a never ending flowing source of information that renders anyone I can listen to worthless

And everything I know is everything they know but I don't know if they know nothing, because if they did, it would be the only thing they know and they've proved to me that they're still convinced by the shadows on the fucking cave wall

Everything I have said is just pure conjecture

We can call it the muses taking hold of me for all that I care

Anything that gives you an excuse to write it off

Cause if you don't get it, I don't care

Oh, that's just me! Just me being edgy again

Pretentious and edgy like always

Doesn't make me special, I know that

It doesn't, nothing about me is

Ring around the hemlock, and celebrate the death

And keep the fucking words around, tie them around my neck

Choke me with philosophy, from the start I can see through

I do what I'm supposed to do, and it's fresh like just brand new

Help me understand, what the fuck is coming next

To ask of me to interpret this is hard to comprehend

Stay in the world of forms (return to the cave)

Stay in the world of forms (return to the cave)

Stay in the world of forms (return to the cave)

Stay in the world of forms (return to the cave)

Stay in the world of forms (return to the cave)

Stay in the world of forms (return to the cave)

Stay in the world of forms (return to the cave)

Stay in the world of forms (return to the cave)

Stay in the world of forms (return to the cave)

Stay in the world of forms (return to the cave)

Stay in the world of forms (return to the cave)

Stay in the world of forms (return to the cave)

Pretentious lines, here and there

These words come from great fortune, they're too much to bare

This is my world and I am fucking stuck in it, the people around me just won't move on

From their blind, neoliberal tendencies, they won't listen to me, because I'm Socrates

And so, here and on the thousand year journey we have described, let us fare well