The Past Is a Grotesque Animal

The Past Is a Grotesque Animal easy guitar chords by Of Montreal

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Guitar
Tuning

E A D G B E

Capo

Fret 3

Capo

Transpose

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Capo
  • Em

  • G

  • Bm

    2
  • D

  • B

    2
  • E

  • Em

  • G

  • Bm

    2
  • D

  • B

    2
  • E

  • Intro 1
    Em
    G
    Bm
    D

    Em
    G

    Bm
    B
    Bm
    D

    Em
    E
    Em
    G

    Bm
    D

    Em
    E
    Em

    G
    Bm

    D

    Verse 1
    Em
    E

    The past is a grotesque animal
    Em
    G

    And in its eyes you see
    Bm

    How completely wrong you can be
    D

    How completely wrong you can be
    Verse 2
    D

    Em

    The sun is out,

    it melts the snow that fell yesterday
    E
    Em
    G
    Bm

    Makes you wonder why it bothered
    Verse 3
    Bm

    D

    I fell in love with the first cute

    girl that I met
    Em

    Who could appreciate
    E
    Em

    Georges Bataille
    G

    Standing at Swedish festival discussing
    Bm

    "Story of the Eye"
    D

    Discussing "Story of the Eye"
    Verse 4
    D

    Em

    It's so embarrassing to need
    E
    Em

    someone like I do you
    G

    How can I explain,
    Bm

    I need you here and not here too

    How can I explain,
    D

    I need you here and not here too
    Verse 5
    D

    Em

    I'm flunking out, I'm flunking out,

    I'm gone, I'm just gone
    G
    Bm

    But at least I author my own disaster
    D

    At least I author my own disaster
    Verse 6
    D

    Em

    Performance breakdown and
    E

    I don't want to hear it
    Em
    G

    I'm just not available

    Things could be different
    Bm

    but they're not
    D

    Things could be different but they're not
    Verse 7
    D

    Em

    The mousy girl screams,

    "Violence! Violence!"

    The mousy girl screams,

    "Violence! Violence!"
    E
    Em
    G

    She gets hysterical because

    they're both so mean
    Bm

    And it's my favorite scene
    D

    But the cruelty's so predictable
    Em

    It makes you sad on the stage

    Though our love project has
    G

    so much potential

    But it's like we weren't made

    for this world
    Bm

    (Though I wouldn't really want to
    D

    meet someone who was)
    Verse 8
    Em

    Do I have to scream in your face?

    I've been dodging lamps
    G

    and vegetables
    Bm

    Throw it all in my face, I don't care
    Verse 9
    Bm

    Let's just have some fun
    D

    Let's tear this shit apart

    Let's tear the fucking house apart
    Em

    Let's tear our fucking bodies apart
    Interlude 1

    But let's just have some fun
    Em
    G

    Verse 10
    Bm

    Somehow you've red-rovered

    the gestapo circling my heart
    D

    And nothing can defeat you
    Verse 11

    No death, no ugly world
    E

    Em

    You've lived so brightly
    E
    Em

    You've altered everything
    G

    I find myself searching for old selves

    While speeding forward through the plate
    Bm

    glass of maturing cells
    Interlude 2
    Bm
    D
    Em
    E
    Em


    Verse 12
    G

    I've played the

    unraveler, the parhelion
    Bm

    But even apocalypse is fleeting

    There's no death, no ugly world
    Verse 13
    D

    Sometimes I wonder if you're
    Em

    mythologizing me like I do you
    G

    Mythologizing me like I do you
    Verse 14
    G

    Bm

    We want our film to be beautiful,

    not realistic
    D

    Perceive me in the radiance

    of terror dreams
    Em

    And you can betray me
    G

    You can, you can betray me
    Verse 15
    G

    Bm

    But teach me something wonderful

    Crown my head, crowd my head
    D

    With your lilting effects

    Project your fears on to me,

    I need to view them
    Em

    See, there's nothing to them

    I promise you,

    there's nothing to them
    G
    Verse 16


    I'm so touched by your goodness
    Bm

    You make me feel so criminal
    D

    How do you keep it together?

    I'm all, all unraveled
    Em

    Verse 17
    Em
    G

    But you know, no matter where we are

    We're always touching by underground
    Interlude 3

    wires
    Bm
    D

    Em
    E
    Em
    G

    Verse 18
    Bm

    I've explored you with the

    detachment of an analyst
    D

    But most nights we've raided

    the same kingdoms
    Em

    And none of our secrets are physical
    G

    None of our secrets are physical
    Bm

    None of our secrets are physical now
    Outro 1
    Bm
    D
    Em

    G
    Bm

    D
    Em

    G
    Bm

    D

    Em

    G
    Bm

    D
    Em

    G
    Bm

    D
    Em

    G
    Bm

    D
    Em
    E
    Em

    G
    Bm

    D
    Bm


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