The Magnetic Fields - The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure lyrics

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]