House is Massive Attack's Teardrop...

(...also, soylent green is people!) I was reading BoingBoing's post on the new MTV video archive, when I noticed that one of the videos they had posted (of a song I had never heard of before), sounded and looked like the opening sequence of Fox's "House, MD." I looked it up, and, sure enough, everybody except me knows already! House uses the song "Teardrop" by the British band Massive Attack as its opening theme.

The only thing I can add to our collective knowledge is that the visual design of the opening sequence appears to be strongly influenced by the music video. Check it out for yourself:

And then there's the question of the lyrics: do they mean anything about the show House?; and what are they? Is it "Feathers on my breath" or "Fearless on my breath"? Is it "Nine night of matter", "In the night of matter", or "Night, night of the dead"? There doesn't seem to be a lot of agreement on the lyrics, and none of them make sense to me, but here's my best guess, as seen on LyricWiki:

Love, love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Fearless on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me makes me lighter
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

Night, night of the dead
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath
Black flowers blossom
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my......

Water is my eye
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath
Teardrop on the fire of a confession
Fearless on my breath
Most faithful mirror
Fearless on my breath

Teardrop on the fire
Fearless on my breath

You're stumbling a little
You're stumbling a little