The Past Is a Grotesque Animal chords by Of Montreal
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Intro 1
(E minor) (G major) (B minor) (D major)
(E minor) (G major)
(B minor) (B major) (B minor) (D major)
(E minor) (E major) (E minor) (G major)
(B minor) (D major)
(E minor) (E major) (E minor)
(G major) (B minor)
(D major)
Verse 1
The (E minor) past is a grotesque anim (E major) al
And in it (E minor) s eyes you see (G major)
How completely wrong you can (B minor) be
How completely wrong you can (D major) be
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Verse 2
(D major)
The sun (E minor) is out,
it melts the snow that fell yesterday
(E major) (E minor) Makes you (G major) wonder why it (B minor) bothered
Verse 3
(B minor)
I (D major) fell in love with the first cute
girl that I met
Who could ap (E minor) preciate
Georges Bataille (E major) (E minor)
Stand (G major) ing at Swedish festival discussing
"Story of the (B minor) Eye"
Discussing "Story of the (D major) Eye"
Verse 4
(D major)
It's so em (E minor) barrassing to need
someone like I do you (E major) (E minor)
How can I explain, (G major)
I need you here and not here too (B minor)
How can I explain,
I need you here and (D major) not here too
Verse 5
(D major)
I'm (E minor) flunking out, I'm flunking out,
I'm gone, I'm just gone
But at (G major) least I author my own disaster (B minor)
At least I author my (D major) own disaster
Verse 6
(D major)
Per (E minor) formance breakdown and
I don't (E major) want to hear it
(E minor) I'm just not avail (G major) able
Things could be different
but they're not (B minor)
(D major) Things could be different but they're not
Verse 7
(D major)
The mousy (E minor) girl screams,
"Violence! Violence!"
The mousy girl screams,
"Violence! Violence!"
(E major) (E minor) She gets hys (G major) terical because
they're both so mean
And it's my (B minor) favorite scene
But the cruelty's (D major) so predictable
It makes you sad on the stage (E minor)
Though our love project has
so much potential (G major)
But it's like we weren't made
for this world
(Though I (B minor) wouldn't really want to
meet someone (D major) who was)
Verse 8
Do I have to scream (E minor) in your face?
I've been dodging lamps
and (G major) vegetables
Throw it all in my face, I don't care (B minor)
Verse 9
(B minor) Let's just have some fun
Let's tear this shit apart (D major)
Let's tear the fucking house apart
Let's tear our fucking bodies apart (E minor)
Interlude 1
But let's just have some fun
(E minor) (G major)
Verse 10
(B minor) Somehow you've red-rovered
the gestapo circling my heart
And (D major) nothing can defeat you
Verse 11
No death, no ugly world
(E major)
You've lived (E minor) so brightly
You've (E major) altered everything (E minor)
I find (G major) myself searching for old selves
While speeding forward through the plate
(B minor) glass of maturing cells
Interlude 2
(B minor) (D major) (E minor) (E major) (E minor)
Verse 12
I've played the (G major)
unraveler, the parhelion
But even apo (B minor) calypse is fleeting
There's no death, no ugly world
Verse 13
Sometimes I (D major) wonder if you're
mythologizing me like I do you (E minor)
Mythologiz (G major) ing me like I do you
Verse 14
(G major)
We want our film to be beautiful, (B minor)
not realistic
Perceive me in the (D major) radiance
of terror dreams
And you can betray me (E minor)
You can, (G major) you can betray me
Verse 15
(G major)
But (B minor) teach me something wonderful
Crown my head, crowd my head
With your lilting (D major) effects
Project your fears on to me,
I need to view them
See, (E minor) there's nothing to them
I promise you,
there's nothing to them
(G major)
Verse 16
I'm so touched by your goodness
You make me (B minor) feel so criminal
How do you (D major) keep it together?
I'm all, all unraveled
(E minor)
Verse 17
(E minor) But you know, no (G major) matter where we are
We're always touching by underground
Interlude 3
wires
(B minor) (D major)
(E minor) (E major) (E minor) (G major)
Verse 18
I've explored (B minor) you with the
detachment of an analyst
But most (D major) nights we've raided
the same kingdoms
And (E minor) none of our secrets are physical
None of our secrets are (G major) physical
None of our secrets are physical (B minor) now
Outro 1
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(D major) (E minor)
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(D major) (E minor)
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(D major) (E minor) (E major) (E minor)
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The Past Is a Grotesque Animal
Of Montreal
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