​of Montreal - The Past Is a Grotesque Animal lyrics

The past is a grotesque animal
And in it's eyes, you see
How completely wrong you can be
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 Georges Bataille
Standing at a Swedish festival
Discussing Story of the Eye
Discussing 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
How can I explain?
I need you here and not here too

I'm flunking out, I'm flunking out
I'm gone, I'm just gone
But at least I author my own disaster
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
Oh, oh, things could be different
But they're not

The mousy girl screams, "Violence, violence!"
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 wanna
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
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
Mythologizing me like I do you

We want our film to be beautiful
Not realistic
Perceive me in the radiance of terror dreams
You can betray me you can you can betray me

Teach me something wonderful crown my head
Crowd my head with your lilting effects
Project your fears onto 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, 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
None of our secrets are physical
None of our secrets are physical now