Uses samples of "Strangers in the Night", written by Burt Kaempfort, Charles Singleton, and Eddie Snyder This quatrain, repeated throughout the entire song, appears to be a paraphrase of this passage from French philosopher Georges Bataille’s L'Erotisme (English title: Erotism: Death and Sensuality): "Beauty has a cardinal importance, for ugliness cannot be spoiled, and to despoil is the essence of eroticism. Humanity implies the taboos, and in eroticism it and they are transgressed.

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