Beware of Virtue (20K Version)

And what seems a good thing today

Turns out tomorrow to have been a disaster

What seemed in the moral spiritual sphere too

Like great virtues in times past

Are easily seen today as hideous evils

Let's take, for example, the Inquisition

In its own day, among Catholics

The Holy Inquisition was regarded

As we today regard the practice of psychiatry

You, you see, you feel that in curing the person of cancer

Almost anything is justified

The most complex operation

The most weird surgery

People suspended for days and days

On end on the еnd of tubes with x-ray penetration

Burning, pеople undergoing shock treatment

People locked in the colorless

Monotonous corridors of mental institutions

In all good faith

They knew that witchcraft and heresy were terrible things

Awful plagues imperiling people's souls forever and ever

So any means were justified to cure people of heresy

We don't change

We don't change

We're doing the same thing today

But under different names

We don't change (Nah, nah, nah, nah)

We're doing the same thing today

But under different names

We can look back at those people

And see how evil that was

But we can't see it in ourselves

So therefore, beware of virtue

We don't change

We're doing the same thing today

But under different names

We don't change (Nah, nah, nah, nah)

We're doing the same thing today

Under different names

We don't change

We're doing the same thing today

But under different names

We don't change (Nah, nah, nah, nah)

We're doing the same thing today

Under different names

So therefore, beware of virtue

So therefore, beware

Beware of virtue