of Montreal – The Past Is A Grotesque Animal (Ukulele)

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Gm    Bb
The past is a grotesque animal and in it's eyes you see

     Dm
how completely wrong you can be

                             F
how completely wrong you can be

    Gm
the sun is out it melts the snow that fell yesterday

          Bb            Dm
makes you wonder why it bothered

Dm
i fell in love with the first cute girl that i met

    Gm
who could appreciate George Bataille

Bb                                  Dm
standing at a Swedish festival discussing the story of the eye

                             F
discussing the story of the eye

Gm
it's so embarrassing to need someone like i do you

    Bb       Dm
how can i explain i need you here and not here too

      F
how can i explain i need you here and not here too

Gm
I'm flunking out i'm gone i'm just gone

       Bb                             Dm
but at least i author my own disaster

             F
at least i author my own disaster

Gm
performance breakdown and i don't want to hear it

              Bb
i'm just not available

      Dm
things could be different but they're not

                                      F
things could be different but they're not

          Gm
the mousy girl screams violence violence
the mousy girl screams violence violence
   Bb
she gets hysterical

       Dm
cause they're both so mean and it's my favorite scene

  Gm
but the cruelty's so predictable it makes you sad on the stage

                                          Bb
though our love project has so much potential
but it's like we weren't made for this world
         Dm                                           F
though i wouldn't really want to meet someone who was

     Gm
do i have to scream in your face

                            Bb
i've been dodging lamps and vegetables
throw it all in my face
        Dm
i don't care
let's just have some fun
          Bb
let's tear this shit apart
let's tear the fucking house apart
                                   Gm
let's tear our fucking bodies apart

     Bb
but let's just have some fun

Dm
somehow you've red rovered the gestapo circling my heart
and nothing can defeat you no death no ugly world
Gm
you've lived so brightly you've altered everything

  Bb
i find myself searching for old selves

   Dm                            F    Gm
while speeding forward through the plate glass of maturing cells

                  Bb
i've played the unraveler the parhelion

         Dm
but even Apocalypse is fleeting there's no death no ugly world

            Gm
sometimes i wonder if you're mythologizing me like i do you

              Bb
mythologizing me like i do you

                       Dm
we want our film to be beautiful not realistic

                   F
perceive me in the radiance of terror dreams

                      Gm
and you can betray me

        Bb
you can
you can betray me
Dm
but teach me something wonderful

                                      F
crown my head crowd my head with your lilting effects
project your fears on to me i need to view them
Gm
see there's nothing to them

      Bb
i promise you there's nothing to them

                                            Dm
i'm so touched by your goodness you make me feel so criminal

           F                                       Gm
how do you keep it together i'm all all unraveled

                Bb
but you know no matter where we are we're always touching by underground wires

Dm
i've explored you with the detachment of an analyst

    F
but most nights we've raided the same kingdoms

Gm
and none of our secrets are physical

                        Bb
none of our secrets are physical

Bb Dm
none of our secrets are physical now