Of Montreal

[fox69]

"Enemy Gene"
(feat. Janelle Monáe)

"Enemy Gene"
(feat. Janelle Monáe)



Aren't you sick of the con
Not quite Homo-Luminous
They're expecting so little
Can't feel the miracle

A zombies licking your window
For black body radiation

[Janelle Monáe:]
Love breaks the machine
Everything is half apart--what can it mean?
How can I trust my fractious heart
Knowing I have the enemy gene?

Love breaks the machine
Everything is half in dream--how can it be?
Everything is born in shame
It's not just me
Particle wave duality
How can we ever evolve
When our gods are so primitive?
They destroy the film

They want to disable my system
Looking for traces of a clean hit
If the end of the world has ever happened
This must be it
I've grown too strong that's what they said
To keep my animal spirit
It empties me
Now I'm vacant

Love breaks the machine
Everything is half apart--what can it mean?
How can I trust my fractious heart
Knowing I have the enemy gene?

Love breaks the machine
Everything is half in dream--how can it be?
Everything's born in shame
It's not just me
Particle wave duality
I know that we'll never survive
This little victory

Love breaks the machine
Everything is half apart--what can it mean?
How can I trust my fractious heart
Knowing I have the enemy gene?

Love breaks the machine
Everything is half in dream--how can it be?
Everything is born in shame
It's not just me
Particle wave duality
How can we ever evolve when our gods are so primitive?
They destroy our hope for peace
Hope for love

 

[fox69]

"Eros' Entropic Tundra"

"Eros' Entropic Tundra"


All I ever get is sad love
While watching all my friends find their happy love
I don't understand why I should be without love
All I ever get is sad love
Always falling for the ones who feel nothing for me
Sometimes I think I should just forget about love
I was walking with my parents through St. Peter's Park
When I saw a young couple with a child
They were all holding hands and smiling
They seemed very nice
Seemed to have a nice life
All I ever get is sad love
Feeling incomplete and below being loved
I don't know why it has been so hard to find love
All I ever get is sad love
The unrequited kind is all I have procured
And it was nothing at all like what I've heard about love
Without love, life has no great reward
Leaving us damaged or feeling so bored
Devoid of memories, nothing to record
Wishing the one that we adore
Loved us more
All I ever get is sad love
I was walking with my parents through St. Peter's Park
When I saw a young couple with a child
They were all holding hands and smiling
They seemed very nice
Seemed to have a nice life
All I ever get is sad love
Always falling for the ones who feel nothing for me
Sometimes I think I should just forget about love
Sad love (Sad love, sad love, sad love)

 

[fox69]

"Erroneous Escape Into Erik Eckles"

"Erroneous Escape Into Erik Eckles"


The octopus in your purse
is cursing like an evil sailor
But remember the knife is worse
for the editors of movie trailers
And if you want me to
I'll help it's all the same to me
just tell me if you want me to
If you keep killing God in your eye
people will think you're really callous
But no matter how hard you try
you'll never be as weird as Uncle Alice
And if you want me to
I'll help it's all the same to me
just tell me if you want me to
I'm not upset just confused and it's so tough
I can't relate to this world I'm not bored enough
Watch out the music will complete the change in you
To sing this song in braille
you have to be haunted by glass freckles
And if your color treatment fails
well you can always talk to Erik Eckles

 

[fox69]

"Estocadas"

"Estocadas"


Natives have a name for me but I can't remember what it is
Some fucker took what's mine and now he's acting like she's his
Your shifty friend gave you a cactus for a gift
Oh-oh, oh-oh

Such a stupid offering, what it's meant to symbolize?
Hostile immobility, is that something to prize?
Floodlights generate a hum, render sleeping some myth of man
Oh-oh, oh-oh

The morning finds me alive with my face pressed in a glass door
This summer's been nothing but rain
Nature is writhing in her own filth again

Took the bus to Plaza de toros on a dare
You cried all through the bullfight and cursed me for taking you there
Riding back in silence to the hostel thinking only
Only estocadas

The morning finds me alive with my face pressed in a glass door
This summer's been nothing but rain
Nature is writhing in her own filth again

 

[fox69]

"Events Leading Up To The Collapse Of Detective Dulllight"

"Events Leading Up To The Collapse Of Detective Dulllight"


There was jello in the fingerprints Detective Dulllight discovered. It proved to be the most important finding in the case And where as Detectives Slocks and Slovits slobbered over smutty photographs Dulllight had a better lead to follow. He followed the ringing to the telephone where a voice asked "Excuse me aren't you so and so?" "Oh so and so since you left I have been eating only sweets cause they remind me of you." He felt this surely was a clue. So he climbed into the tub wearing his underwear and overcoat, jumped aboard the mono boat and followed the water down the drain. In his brain there are file cabinets and secretaries filing their nails downstairs (But I don't want to talk about that room downstairs). At this moment Detective Slocks and Slovets realize that since they had reported on the crime scene this morning each of them has aged over fifty years. Two butterflies land on their shoulders and harmonize softly in their ears "Where did all the time go?" "Did you think that you'd stay young forever?" "But at least you're still together..." The two detectives held hands in the moonlight. The butterflies flew away which prompted Slovit's to say,"It's queer, but I miss them already". Slocks removed a fountain pen from his breast pocket, drove it deep into Slovit's throat and began screeching "DEATH TO THE PARCHMENT WHALE, THE ROBOT IAM LASAILE". While in prison, Slocks wrote one of the most revered exercises in free verse titled "The Cause of Gauze". "Oh the cause of gauze, The Manuels have fondled many memories from my lap though each memory has its own lap and swimmers swim laps. Even swimmers have laps however and while in that condition many require a delicate gauze. I desire only this in my decrepitude, that I will have one more opportunity to serve as a gauze to my fellow man and that in that state of gauze can somehow disturb the world less often with my prickly fingers." When Detective Dulllight returning from the catacombs first heard the news of the Slocks and Slovets stabbing and subsequent poetry enterprise he immediately fell to the floor and began plucking peaches from his cheeks. This eventually became a tiresome activity so he evaporated into the cream a float a child's bedtime coco.

 

[fox69]

"Everyday Feels Like Sunday"

"Everyday Feels Like Sunday"


Everyday feels like Sunday baby everyday feels so good
Everyday feels like Sunday baby everyday feels so good
I'm further and further away from the fall everyday
And for years I bowed I could not sleep so very well
Even standing up I crawled yet there is a softness I can tell
I'm electric now from the pure brilliant sparks you shot
Like a little man all I can say is "thanks a lot"
Ah I must destroy this artificial darkness
That's how it seems to me to be, art artificial now 'cause

 

[fox69]

"Everything About Her Is Wrong"

"Everything About Her Is Wrong"


Everything about her is wrong
She's the kind of creep that would just lead you along
She acts so sweet but that's a little trick
Yeah, she is a very duplicitous chick

Everything about her is fake
I've met spurious girls before but she takes the cake
She acts naive but that's a little game
Yeah, she puts Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary to shame

Her contempt for manners eclipsed by no other
For instance, an Oedipus learned from her mother

Everything about her is base
She belongs to the Machiavellian race
She acts austere but that's a little joke
Because this little trollop is quite morally broke

Everything about her is sick
I've seen her smashing harmless butterflies with a brick
She acts so kind but that's a little ruse
Any guy trying to win her is just destined to lose

The malice in her soul isn't quite so bad
Her preciosity veils a heart like an oubliette

Everything about her's a mess
To look in her eyes is to see
A cold and inhuman abyss

Her mind appears controlled
By a drunk navigator
Her moods are like a child
Playing in an elevator

 

[fox69]

"Everything Disappears When You Come Around"

"Everything Disappears When You Come Around"


When you come around, everything else disappears.
My ears disappear.
When you come around, everything else vanishes.
The crowds slowly fade when you come around.
Everything evaporates when you come around.
On the news at night,
they talk about the disappearances.
They interview the people who were witnesses.
Most are shocked, some don't care.
When you come around, everything else disappears.
My mouth disappears.
When you come around, everything else vanishes.
The birds have no heads when you come around.
Everything loses its legs when you come around.
On the news at night,
they talk about the abnormalities.
They interview the people who are authorities.
Most are intrigued, some don't care
When you come around.
When you are near,
I feel so far away from the person I am
Alone I feel like I'm jumping on a trampoline.
When you come around, everything else disappears.
My eyes disappear.
When you come around, everything else vanishes.
The sunlight swims away when you come around,
And even darkness won't stay
when you come around.

 

[fox69]

"Exorcismic Breeding Knife"

"Exorcismic Breeding Knife"


There's flash of dead eyed in these horse faced hours of ours
Don't let this be how I'll be remembered

The truest humanity seems to be in dialogue
Torn to paper shredded cowboy menace
True love never hated
The two donkey childs that will be remembered for our hearing

Is there a therapist?
Is there a psychosis?
Is there a comedy outside?
How can you perform, how can you operate?
Is there a solution then?
Why is there an apocalyse?
There's no such thing

How can you operate, how can you perform, how can you exploit?
How can you operate, how can you operate, how can you perform?
How... can you operate, how can you perform?
How can you operate, how can you perform?
How...

 

[fox69]

"Expecting To Fly"

"Expecting To Fly"


There you stood on the edge of your feather,
Expecting to fly.
While I laughed, I wondered whether
I should wave bye,
Knowing that you've gone.
By the summer it was healing,
We had said goodbye.
All the years we'd spent with feeling
Ended with a cry,
Babe, ended with a cry,
Babe, ended with a cry.

I tried so hard to stand
As I stumbled and fell to the ground.
So hard to laugh as I fumbled
And reached for the love I found,
Knowin' it was gone.
If I never lived without you,
Now you know I'd die.
If I never said I loved you,
Now you know I'd try,
Babe, now you know I'd try.
Babe, now you know I'd try,
Babe.