The Past Is a Grotesque Animal Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Em][G][Bm][D]
[Em][G]
[Bm][B][Bm][D]
[Em][E][Em][G]
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[Em][E][Em]
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[Verse 1]
The [Em]past is a grotesque anim[E]al
And in it[Em]s eyes you se[G]e
How completely wrong you can [Bm]be
How completely wrong you can [D]be

[Verse 2]
[D]
[Em]The sun is out,
it melts the snow that fell yesterday
[E]Mak[Em]es you wonder w[G]hy it bothered[Bm]

[Verse 3]
[Bm]
I [D]fell in love with the first cute
girl that I met
Who could ap[Em]preciate
Georges [E]Bataille[Em]
[G]Standing at Swedish festival discussing
"Story of the [Bm]Eye"
Discussing "Story of the [D]Eye"

[Verse 4]
[D]
It's so em[Em]barrassing to need
someone like I do [E]you[Em]
How can I ex[G]plain,
I need you here and not here [Bm]too
How can I explain,
I need you here and [D]not here too

[Verse 5]
[D]
I'm [Em]flunking out, I'm flunking out,
I'm gone, I'm just gone
But at [G]least I author my own [Bm]disaster
At least I author my [D]own disaster

[Verse 6]
[D]
Per[Em]formance breakdown and
I don't [E]want to hear it
[Em]I'm just not avail[G]able
Things could be different
but they're [Bm]not
[D]Things could be different but they're not

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

[Verse 8]
Do I have [Em]to scream in your face?
I've been dodging lamps
and [G]vegetables
Throw it all in my face, I don't [Bm]care

[Verse 9]
[Bm]Let's just have some fun
Let's tear this shit [D]apart
Let's tear the fucking house apart
Let's tear our fucking bodies [Em]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
And [D]nothing can defeat you

[Verse 11]
No death, no ugly world
[E]
You've [Em]lived so brightly
You've [E]altered [Em]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]
I've played [G]the
unraveler, the parhelion
But even apo[Bm]calypse is fleeting
There's no death, no ugly world

[Verse 13]
Sometimes I [D]wonder if you're
mythologizing me like I do [Em]you
Mythologiz[G]ing me like I do you

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

[Verse 15]
[G]
But [Bm]teach me something wonderful
Crown my head, crowd my head
With your [D]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
You make me [Bm]feel so criminal
How do you [D]keep it together?
I'm all, all unraveled
[Em]

[Verse 17]
[Em]But you know, no m[G]atter where we are
We're always touching by underground

[Interlude 3]
wires
[Bm][D]
[Em][E][Em][G]

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

[Outro 1]
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