[ti:The Past Is A Grotesque Animal]
[ar:Of Montreal]
[01:41.04]The past is a grotesque animal
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[01:45.76]And in its eyes you see
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[01:50.65]How completely wrong you can be
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[01:56.83]How completely wrong you can be
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[02:06.15]The sun is out it melts the snow that fell yesterday
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[02:11.73]Makes you wonder why it bothered
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[02:24.96]I fell in love with the first cute girl that I met
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[02:30.77]Who could appreciate George Bataille
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[02:37.47]Standing at a Swedish festival
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[02:42.15]Discussing Story of the Eye
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[02:48.33]Discussing Story of the Eye
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[02:55.96]It's so embarrassing to need someone like I do you
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[03:01.78]How can I explain I need you here and not here too
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[03:12.07]How can I explain I need you here and not here too
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[03:21.24]I'm flunking out I'm flunking out
[03:23.72]I'm gone I'm just gone
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[03:27.24]But at least I author my own disaster
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[03:38.93]At least I author my own disaster
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[03:46.67]Performance breakdown and I don't want to hear it
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[03:51.92]I'm just not available
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[03:56.30]Things could be different but they're not
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[04:03.92]Things could be different but they're not
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[04:11.18]The mousy girl screams Violence violence
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[04:14.27]The mousy girl screams Violence violence
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[04:17.33]She gets hysterical 'cause they're both so mean
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[04:23.70]And it's my favorite scene
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[04:30.33]But the cruelty's so predictable
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[04:35.77]Makes you sad on the stage
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[04:39.77]Though our love project has so much potential
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[04:45.21]But it's like we weren't made for this world
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[04:49.05]Though I wouldn't really want to meet someone who was
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[05:01.36]Do I have to scream in your face
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[05:06.30]I've been dodging lamps and vegetables
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[05:11.07]Throw it all in my face I don't care
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[05:17.15]Let's just have some fun let's tear this shit apart
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[05:21.78]Let's tear the f**king house apart
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[05:24.90]Let's tear our f**king bodies apart
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[05:29.82]Let's just have some fun
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[05:40.09]Somehow you've red-rovered the gestapo circling my heart
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[05:45.71]And nothing can defeat you no death no ugly world
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[05:52.53]You've lived so brightly you've altered everything
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[05:58.21]I find myself searching for old selves
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[06:02.58]While speeding forward through the plate glass of maturing cells
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[06:22.61]I've played the unraveler the parhelion
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[06:28.86]But even Apocalypse is fleeting there's no death no ugly world
[06:35.49]Sometimes I wonder if you're mythologizing me like I do you
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[06:47.89]Mythologizing me like I do you
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[06:53.23]We want our film to be beautiful not realistic
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[07:00.11]Perceive me in the radiance of terror dreams
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[07:05.12]You can betray me you can
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[07:14.56]You can betray me
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[07:19.99]Teach me something wonderful
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[07:23.12]Crown my head crowd my head with your lilting effects
[07:27.68]Project your fears on to me I need to view them
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[07:32.39]See there's nothing to them
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[07:35.46]I promise you there's nothing to them
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[07:40.39]I'm so touched by your goodness
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[07:44.47]You make me feel so criminal
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[07:50.77]How do you keep it together
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[07:55.15]I'm all all unraveled
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[08:03.18]But you know no matter where we are
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[08:06.99]We're always touching by underground wires
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[08:34.74]I've explored you with the detachment of an analyst
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[08:41.20]But most nights we've raided the same kingdoms
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[08:47.63]And none of our secrets are physical
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[08:51.03]None of our secrets are physical
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[08:57.24]None of our secrets are physical now
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