it's well and kosher to say you don't understand
Okay, so my latest favorite song is "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure" by Magnetic Fields (it's on 69 Love Songs, disc 3--much love to ubil).
Ironically, I discovered this song like the day after I had to read Saussure for my rhetoric and technology class. But anyway, I am now consumed with a burning curiosity: how DID Ferdinand de Saussure die? He was only 56.
I met Ferdinand de Saussure
On a night like this
On love he said
"I'm not so sure
I even know what it is
No understanding
No closure
It is a nemesis
You can't use a bulldozer
To study orchids"
He said...
So we don't know anything
You don't know anything
I don't know anything
about love
But we are nothing
You are nothing
I am nothing
Without love
I'm just a great composer
And not a violent man
But I lost my composure
And I shot Ferdinand
Crying "it's well and kosher
to say you don't understand
but this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland"
His last words were
We don't know anything [etc]
His fading words were
We don't know anything [etc]
Ironically, I discovered this song like the day after I had to read Saussure for my rhetoric and technology class. But anyway, I am now consumed with a burning curiosity: how DID Ferdinand de Saussure die? He was only 56.
I met Ferdinand de Saussure
On a night like this
On love he said
"I'm not so sure
I even know what it is
No understanding
No closure
It is a nemesis
You can't use a bulldozer
To study orchids"
He said...
So we don't know anything
You don't know anything
I don't know anything
about love
But we are nothing
You are nothing
I am nothing
Without love
I'm just a great composer
And not a violent man
But I lost my composure
And I shot Ferdinand
Crying "it's well and kosher
to say you don't understand
but this is for Holland-Dozier-Holland"
His last words were
We don't know anything [etc]
His fading words were
We don't know anything [etc]