Villagers The Meaning of the Ritual song lyrics

My love is selfish

And I bet that yours is too

What is this peculiar word called truth

My love is selfish

And it cares not who it hurts

It will cut you out to satisfy its thirst

For the meaning of a ritual so habitual and cursed

My love is selfish

How it separates the earth

It takes every shiny stone but leaves the dirt

For the cowards in the corner who just don't know what they're worth

They've been twisted by a hollow kind of pain

Oh I can see it in their eyes but I ignore it every day

But my love is selfish

And remembers everything

Like the first time it was moved enough to sing

How it dangled on that stage just like a puppet on a string

The meaning of a ritual

The meaning of a ritual

The meaning of a ritual

The meaning of a ritual

The meaning of a ritual

Oh the meaning of a ritual