Obstacle 1

"Obstacle 1" is a song by Interpol, from their first album Turn on the Bright Lights. The song was released as a single on November 11, 2002, then remixed by producer Arthur Baker and reissued as a single on September 15, 2003. The music video for "Obstacle 1" was directed by Floria Sigismondi. A WKQX Radio interview with the band states that they wrote the song after watching a news report about a model's recent death.

[Verse 1] I wish I could eat the salt off of your lost faded lips We can cap the old times, make playing only logical harm We can cap the old lines, make playing that nothing else will change [Pre-Chorus] But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read She's bad She can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad Oh, she's bad [Chorus] But it's different now that I'm poor and aging I'll never see this face again You go stabbing yourself in the neck [Verse 2] And we can find new ways of living Make playing only logical harm And we can top the old times Clay-making that nothing else will change [Pre-Chorus] But she can read, she can read, she can read, she can read She's bad She can read, she can read, she can read, she's bad Oh, she's bad [Chorus] It's different now that I'm poor and aging I'll never see this face again You go stabbing yourself in the neck But it's different now that I'm poor and aging I'll never see this face again And you go stabbing yourself in the neck [Bridge] It's in the way that she posed It's in the things that she puts in my head Her stories are boring and stuff She's always calling my bluff She puts the, she puts the weights into my little heart And she gets in my room and she takes it apart She puts the weights into my little heart I said she puts the weights into my little heart She packs it away She packs it away She packs it away She packs it away She packs it away She packs it away She packs it away She packs it away [Outro] It's in the way that she walks Her heaven is never enough She puts the weights in my heart She puts, oh, she puts the weights into my little heart