of Montreal - Fugitive Air lyrics
[of Montreal - Fugitive Air lyrics]
I do wrong, strictly speaking
Just for myself
Because it makes me feel like a real man
To hold hegemony over my business and I
I refuse to be abused by
The milieu of wistful decay
Besides, I’m used to all of
My scruples deserting me
Like they’ve done today
The lady on the block hunched
Over on the stool
With her withered old titty out
Saying "I've been rolled so many times
It's just feeding the pigeons"
Now her grandson swings a living
Rabbit by the leg
While his mother's playing two wooden flutes
I went to repo some fugitive air
To escape the street’s vagary aesthetic
Has anybody here seen my old friend Blob?
Oh, has anybody seen where he’s gone?
What he thinks I owe him
Is his former life but
How can I unmake someone else's mistakes?
I guess I was his antihero
The bitter word on his lips
I hope I never feel a terror like
When you discovered your autonomy had flipped
I feel like I possess only
The bad aspects of invisibility
But none of the good ones
Are we walking mausoleums of
Scented rotting flesh?
Mother always liked you best
Liked your teeth upon her breasts
They removed the oils from the
Eyes of street cats
Through some shitty witchcraft
And apply it to their brows and genitalia
I had no idea how deeply I wounded you
But, I don't need no forgiveness
And no level of contrition will ever do
Just for myself
Because it makes me feel like a real man
To hold hegemony over my business and I
I refuse to be abused by
The milieu of wistful decay
Besides, I’m used to all of
My scruples deserting me
Like they’ve done today
The lady on the block hunched
Over on the stool
With her withered old titty out
Saying "I've been rolled so many times
It's just feeding the pigeons"
Now her grandson swings a living
Rabbit by the leg
While his mother's playing two wooden flutes
I went to repo some fugitive air
To escape the street’s vagary aesthetic
Has anybody here seen my old friend Blob?
Oh, has anybody seen where he’s gone?
What he thinks I owe him
Is his former life but
How can I unmake someone else's mistakes?
I guess I was his antihero
The bitter word on his lips
I hope I never feel a terror like
When you discovered your autonomy had flipped
I feel like I possess only
The bad aspects of invisibility
But none of the good ones
Are we walking mausoleums of
Scented rotting flesh?
Mother always liked you best
Liked your teeth upon her breasts
They removed the oils from the
Eyes of street cats
Through some shitty witchcraft
And apply it to their brows and genitalia
I had no idea how deeply I wounded you
But, I don't need no forgiveness
And no level of contrition will ever do