The Past Is A Grotesque Animal

Album: Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (2007)
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  • The past is a grotesque animal
    And in its eyes you see
    How completely wrong you can be
    How completely wrong you can be

    The sun is out, it melts the snow that fell yesterday
    Makes you wonder why it bothered

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

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

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

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

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

    Do I have to scream in your face?
    I've been dodging lamps and vegetables
    Throw it all in my face, I don't care

    Let's just have some fun
    Let's tear this shit apart
    Let's tear the fucking house apart
    Let's tear our fucking bodies apart
    But let's just have some fun

    Somehow you've red-rovered the gestapo circling my heart
    And nothing can defeat you
    No death, no ugly world

    You've lived so brightly
    You've altered everything
    I find myself searching for old selves
    While speeding forward through the plate glass of maturing cells

    I've played the unraveler, the parhelion
    But even apocalypse is fleeting
    There's no death, no ugly world

    Sometimes I wonder if you're mythologizing me like I do you
    Mythologizing me like I do you

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

    But teach me something wonderful
    Crown my head, crowd my head
    With your lilting effects
    Project your fears on to me, I need to view them
    See, there's nothing to them
    I promise you, there's nothing to them

    I'm so touched by your goodness
    You make me feel so criminal
    How do you keep it together?
    I'm all, all unraveled

    But you know, no matter where we are
    We're always touching by underground wires

    I've explored you with the detachment of an analyst
    But most nights we've raided the same kingdoms
    And none of our secrets are physical
    None of our secrets are physical
    None of our secrets are physical now Publisher: BUG MUSIC OBO APOLLINAIRE RAVE
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