A Priori

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“A Priori”
Music and lyrics by Carrie Jenkins.

Carrie Jenkins — vocals, piano, synthesizers

Carrie Jenkins’ parts were recorded by Carrie in Nottingham.
Song engineered by Carrie Jenkins.

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Lyrics
You could say I’m quite experienced;
Yeah I’ve perceived a thing or two.
But tonight I wanna get conceptual.
I wanna start by analyzing you.

You know I love when you surprise me —
Those crazy claims you sometimes make.
But there’s nothing synthetic about you.
Kant think who’d make that mistake.

It’s only Humean to feel sceptical:
No-one’s entitled to be Wright.
But I’d give up Millians just to be with you.
Let’s trust our intuitions tonight.

No need to play the Field no more, babe:
I see you’re a factual enterprise.
Can’t hold you come what may, but that’s OK.
Tonight there’s nothing to revise.

But what I feel don’t really matter;
You got me thinking really good.
I should believe in you tonight babe,
And that’s an epistemic ‘should’.

It’s only Humean to feel sceptical:
No-one’s entitled to be Wright.
But I’d give up Millians just to be with you.
Let’s trust our intuitions tonight.

Don’t need no late-night lab work.
Don’t need no Bunsen burner.
Don’t need no fucking survey.
Don’t need no off-line reasoning.
Don’t need no Canberra two-step.
Just need my basic concepts.
Just need a little grounding.
Just need the a priori.
Just need the a priori.
Just need the a priori.
Just need the a priori.

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© 2009 Carrie Jenkins.