The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
from Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? by of Montreal
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lyrics
The past is a grotesque animal and in its eyes you see
How completely wrong you can be
The sun is out it melts the snow that fell yesterday makes you wonder why it bothered
I fell in love with the first cute girl that I met who could appreciate George Bataille
Standing at a Swedish festival discussing the “Story of the Eye”
It’s so embarrassing to need someone like I do you
How can I explain I need you here and not here too
I’m flunking out I’m gone I’m just gone but at least I author my own disaster
Performance breakdown and I don’t want to hear it
I’m just not available things could be different but they’re not
The mousy girl screams violence violence she gets hysterical cause they’re both so mean and it’s my favorite scene
But the cruelty’s so predictable it makes you sad on the stage
Though our love project has so much potential but it’s like we weren’t made for this world
Though I wouldn’t really want to meet someone who was
Do I have to scream in your face? I’ve been dodging lamps and vegetables
Throw it all in my face I don’t care
Let’s just have some fun let’s tear this shit apart let’s tear the fucking house apart
Let’s tear our fucking bodies apart but let’s just have some fun
Somehow you’ve red rovered the gestapo circling my heart and nothing can defeat you no death no ugly world
You’ve lived so brightly you’ve altered everything
I find myself searching for old selves while speeding forward through the plate glass of maturing cells
I’ve played the unraveler the parhelion but even apocalypse is fleeting there’s no death no ugly world
Sometimes I wonder if you’re mythologizing me like I do you
We want our film to be beautiful not realistic perceive me in the radiance of terror dreams and you can betray me but teach me something wonderful
Crown my head crowd my head with your lilting effects project your fears on to me I need to view them
See there’s nothing to them I promise you there’s nothing to them
I’m so touched by your goodness you make me feel so criminal
How do you keep it together? I’m all unraveled
But you know no matter where we are we’re always touching by underground wires
I’ve explored you with the detachment of an analyst but most nights we’ve raided the same kingdoms and none of our Secrets are physical now
How completely wrong you can be
The sun is out it melts the snow that fell yesterday makes you wonder why it bothered
I fell in love with the first cute girl that I met who could appreciate George Bataille
Standing at a Swedish festival discussing the “Story of the Eye”
It’s so embarrassing to need someone like I do you
How can I explain I need you here and not here too
I’m flunking out I’m gone I’m just gone but at least I author my own disaster
Performance breakdown and I don’t want to hear it
I’m just not available things could be different but they’re not
The mousy girl screams violence violence she gets hysterical cause they’re both so mean and it’s my favorite scene
But the cruelty’s so predictable it makes you sad on the stage
Though our love project has so much potential but it’s like we weren’t made for this world
Though I wouldn’t really want to meet someone who was
Do I have to scream in your face? I’ve been dodging lamps and vegetables
Throw it all in my face I don’t care
Let’s just have some fun let’s tear this shit apart let’s tear the fucking house apart
Let’s tear our fucking bodies apart but let’s just have some fun
Somehow you’ve red rovered the gestapo circling my heart and nothing can defeat you no death no ugly world
You’ve lived so brightly you’ve altered everything
I find myself searching for old selves while speeding forward through the plate glass of maturing cells
I’ve played the unraveler the parhelion but even apocalypse is fleeting there’s no death no ugly world
Sometimes I wonder if you’re mythologizing me like I do you
We want our film to be beautiful not realistic perceive me in the radiance of terror dreams and you can betray me but teach me something wonderful
Crown my head crowd my head with your lilting effects project your fears on to me I need to view them
See there’s nothing to them I promise you there’s nothing to them
I’m so touched by your goodness you make me feel so criminal
How do you keep it together? I’m all unraveled
But you know no matter where we are we’re always touching by underground wires
I’ve explored you with the detachment of an analyst but most nights we’ve raided the same kingdoms and none of our Secrets are physical now
credits
from Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?,
released January 23, 2007
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