Some people approach a conversation as if it were a fight
Using nonexistent statistics to prove who's in the right
Well I don't want another reshuffling of winners and losers
I'll approach a conversation as if it were a dance

Because when you talk, you don't learn anything
But when you listen, you do

Does this mean I'm another derelict of postmodern ideologies?
Too open to alternatives to form a solid opinion
All I learned from four years of taking anthropology
Is that everything is relative and nothing's absolute
And that there is no such thing as a universal truth
So when somebody questions what I think might be my convictions
I'm too open to their perspective to adequately refute

Because when you talk, you don't learn anything
And when you listen, you do

So sometimes, I verge on nihilism
But what's it even matter?
Who cares where an opinion falls in the arbitrary wrongs and rights?
It's a gray scale of nothingness on a background of oblivion
In the span of all infinity, I'm an insignificant blip!!!
So what's it even matter?
Everything is nothing!!
What's it even matter?
Everyone is doomed!!!

But then, I snap out of it
Think of all I have to live for!
Think of all the pleasures abounding on this earth
Think of chocolate and kitty-cats
Accordions and pho
Studio Ghibli and Bjork
The Simpsons and used bookstores
Leinenkugels, narwhals, musicals
The taste of fresh-ground coffee on the threshold of your lips
Or the blissful revelry of a lover's hands upon your hips

Think of all the possibilities to be done with mind, and hands
All the creations in the ether, waiting for innovative beings
To set their cogs in motion, to roll out shape the universe
Think of all you can experience, think of all you can achieve
Or you could say it's all meaningless and fade
You could say it's all meaningless and fade
You could say it's all meaningless and fade into lonely obscurity!