The Suicide of Thought

[Verse 1] “his heart is not in the right place” the modern world is not evil it is “full of wild and wasted virtues” [Chorus] THE SUICIDE OF THOUGHT “the virtues have gone mad” THE SUICIDE OF THOUGHT “truth is pitiless / pity is untruthful” THE SUICIDE OF THOUGHT “virtues wander more wildly… virtues do more terrible damage” [Verse 2] “humility in the wrong place” “a man was meant to doubt himself but undoubting about the truth” “a nail in the boot… preventing him from going on” [Bridge] “I may be wrong—” “of course my view may not be the right one—” “a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table” “the meek inherit the earth— but too meek to claim their inheritance” “the whole modern world is at war with reason” [Chorus] THE SUICIDE OF THOUGHT “humility moved to the wrong place” THE SUICIDE OF THOUGHT “philosophers who doubt the law of gravity” THE SUICIDE OF THOUGHT “they cannot see the riddle… they cannot see the riddle” [Outro] “attack the police—forget the burglars” “a door is not a door” poison humility