The Past Is a Grotesque Animal chords by
Of Montreal

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Key: G minor•

Intro 1
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Gm Gm 3
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Gm Gm 3
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Verse 1

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The past is a grotesque animal

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And in its eyes you see

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How completely wrong you can be

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How completely wrong you can be

Verse 2

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The sun is out,

it melts the snow that fell yesterday

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Makes you wonder why it bothered

Verse 3
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I fell in love with the first cute
girl that I met
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Who could appreciate
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Georges Bataille
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Standing at Swedish festival discussing
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"Story of the Eye"
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Discussing "Story of the Eye"

Verse 4
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It's so embarrassing to need
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someone like I do you
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How can I explain,
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I need you here and not here too
How can I explain,
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I need you here and not here too

Verse 5
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I'm flunking out, I'm flunking out,
I'm gone, I'm just gone
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But at least I author my own disaster
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At least I author my own disaster

Verse 6
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Performance breakdown and
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I don't want to hear it
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I'm just not available
Things could be different
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but they're not
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Things could be different but they're not

Verse 7
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Gm Gm 3
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The mousy girl screams,
"Violence! Violence!"
The mousy girl screams,
"Violence! Violence!"
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She gets hys terical because
they're both so mean
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And it's my favorite scene
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But the cruelty's so predictable
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It makes you sad on the stage
Though our love project has
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so much potential
But it's like we weren't made
for this world
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(Though I wouldn't really want to
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meet someone who was)

Verse 8

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Do I have to scream in your face?

I've been dodging lamps

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and vegetables

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

Verse 9

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Let's just have some fun

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Let's tear this shit apart

Let's tear the fucking house apart

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Let's tear our fucking bodies apart

Interlude 1

But let's just have some fun

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Verse 10

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Somehow you've red-rovered

the gestapo circling my heart

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And nothing can defeat you

Verse 11
No death, no ugly world
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Gm Gm 3
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You've lived so brightly
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You've altered everything
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I find myself searching for old selves
While speeding forward through the plate
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glass of maturing cells

Interlude 2

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Verse 12

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I've played the

unraveler, the parhelion

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But even apocalypse is fleeting

There's no death, no ugly world

Verse 13

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Sometimes I wonder if you're

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mythologizing me like I do you

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Mythologizing me like I do you

Verse 14
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We want our film to be beautiful,
not realistic
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Perceive me in the radiance
of terror dreams
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And you can betray me
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You can, you can betray me

Verse 15
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But teach me something wonderful
Crown my head, crowd my head
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With your lilting effects
Project your fears on to me,
I need to view them
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See, there's nothing to them
I promise you,
there's nothing to them
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Verse 16
I'm so touched by your goodness
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You make me feel so criminal
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How do you keep it together?
I'm all, all unraveled
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Verse 17

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But you know, no matter where we are

We're always touching by underground

Interlude 3

wires

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Verse 18
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I've explored you with the
detachment of an analyst
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But most nights we've raided
the same kingdoms
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And none of our secrets are physical
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None of our secrets are physical
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None of our secrets are physical now

Outro 1
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Gm Gm 3
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Gm Gm 3
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Gm Gm 3
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Gm Gm 3
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