Past Is A Grotesque Animal

[Gm]The past is a grotesque animal and in it's eyes you [Bb]see
how completely wrong you can [Dm]be
how completely wrong you can [F]be
the [Gm]sun is out it melts the snow that fell yesterday
makes you [Bb]wonder why it [Dm]bothered

[Dm]i fell in love with the first cute girl that i met
who could ap[Gm]preciate George Bataille
[Bb]standing at a Swedish festival discussing the "story of th[Dm]e eye"
discussing the "story of the [F]eye"

[Gm]it's so embarrassing to need someone like i do you
how can i ex[Bb]plain i need you here and not here [Dm]too
how can i explain i need you here and [F]not here too

[Gm]I'm flunking out i'm gone i'm just gone
but at [Bb]least i author my own disaster [Dm]
at least i author my own disaster  [F]

[Gm]performance breakdown and i don't want to hear it
i'm just not a[Bb]vailable
things could be different but they're [Dm]not
things could be different but they're [F]not
the mousy [Gm]girl screams "violence! violence!"

the mousy girl screams "violence! violence!"
she gets hy[Bb]sterical
cause they're both so mean and it's my [Dm]favorite scene
but the cruelty's so predictable it makes you sad on the [Gm]stage
though our love project has so much potent[Bb]ial

but it's like we weren't made for this world
though i [Dm]wouldn't really want to meet someone who was [F]

do i have to [Gm]scream in your face?
i've been dodging lamps and [Bb]vegetables

throw it all in my face
i don't [Dm]care

let's just have some fun
let's tear this shit apart[Bb]

let's tear the fucking house apart
let's tear our fucking bodies apart[Gm]
but let's just have some fun [Bb]

[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
i [Bb]find myself searching for old selves
while speeding forward through the [Dm]plate glass of maturing cells [F]      [Gm]

i've played the un[Bb]raveler the parhelion
but even [Dm]Apocalypse is fleeting there's no death no ugly world
sometimes i [Gm]wonder if you're mythologizing me like i do you
mythologizing [Bb]me like i do you
we want our film to be [Dm]beautiful not realistic
perceive me in the [F]radiance of terror dreams
and you can betray me [Gm]
you can [Bb]

you can betray me

[Dm]but teach me something wonderful
crown my head crowd my head with your [F]lilting effects

project your fears on to me i need to view them
[Gm]see there's nothing to them
i promise you there's nothing to them [Bb]
i'm so touched by your goodness you make me [Dm]feel so criminal
how do you [F]keep it together? i'm all all unraveled [Gm]
but you know no [Bb]matter where we are we're always touching by underground wires

[Dm]i've explored you with the detachment of an analyst
but [F]most nights we've raided the same kingdoms
[Gm]and none of our secrets are physical
none of our secrets are [Bb]physical
[Bb]none of our secrets are physical [Dm]now