Of Montreal

[fox69]

"City Bird"

"City Bird"


City bird, haven't you heard?
Hasn't anybody told you?
The city blocks can't hold you
Your place is in the sky, how can I show you?

City bird, haven't you heard
of the boundlessness of your freedom?
The sky is your blue kingdom
You neglect your wings like you don't need them

City bird, maybe these hands that feed you need you
Maybe you understand that, city bird

City bird, maybe these hands that feed you need you
Maybe you understand that, city bird

City bird, haven't you heard?
Hasn't anybody told you?
The city blocks can't hold you
Your place is in the sky, how can I show you?

 

[fox69]

"Climb The Ladder"

"Climb The Ladder"


When I'm caught in a net and I haven't a clue
All I've got to do is climb the ladder to you
Climb the Ladder

When there are ghosts in my coat

and everything is askew
All I've got to do is climb the ladder to you
Climb the ladder to you

All of these faces are crowding around me
with mouths open wide to devour
But they have no impact no I do not cower
knowing I'm safe in your tower

When my pencil tips broken and my brain is too
All I've got to do is climb the ladder to you
Climb the ladder

When I feel like an oar in a sunken canoe
All I've got to do is climb the ladder to you
Climb the ladder to you

All of these faces are crowding around me
like grey paint caked on a flower
But they have no impact no value no power
knowing I'm safe in your tower

 

[fox69]

"Color Me In"
(originally by Broadcast)

"Color Me In"
(originally by Broadcast)



I am gray, still on the page
Oh, color me in
Just an outline, sketchy but fine
Oh, color me in

If green is chasing the hills over miles
If blue is pursuing the sky
If the red of your heart doesn't mind
Where to begin to color me in

Something new and nothing to do
I'm just the idea
I must be real cause somehow I feel
That I'm just the idea

Let's share the blue of the towering sky
The green of the hills that run by
Leave the red of your heart to decide
If you cannot choose which color to use

I'll always wait, it's never too late
To color me in, to color me in
Today or next year, I'll always be near
If you want to color me in

 

[fox69]

"Colossus"

"Colossus"


Your mother hung herself in the National Theater
When she was four months pregnant with your sister
Who would have been thirteen years old today
Does that make you feel any less alone in the world?

Your dad, I'm sure, he tried his best
He thought you'd be better off living with your grandmother
He didn't realize that she had already given up
Baby, your family, they are all just losers

I become such a wolf around you
My thoughts go dark, and all out of focus
I have no peace in my mind
Because you
You've touched me

The screech owls are going insane outside my house
It is the season for trouble and self destruction
All of my friends, they are falling apart
But not me, I'm in control

Remember the exquisite corpse that we created together?
We laughed at the time, it seemed so impenetrable
But reading it now I think I understand
What it is that we are trying to steal from each other

I've become such a wolf around you
My thoughts go dark, and all out of focus
Have no peace in my mind
Because you
You've touched me

 

[fox69]

"Coquet Coquette"

"Coquet Coquette"


Coquet coquette you know I won't forget
How you kissed me strange to prove you were mythical
Oh my coquette you used my voice as your earthly vehicle
Coquet coquette you know I won't forget
How you hurt me twice to prove you were cynical
Oh my coquette you are the death you are the pinnacle
With you I can only see my black-light constellations
And other shit I don't think I have the language to say
I don't want to catch you with some other guy's face under your eyelids
Something must be wrong
You give me emotional artifacts that can find no purchase
Coquet coquette you know I won't forget
How you sold me out to prove you were typical
Oh my coquette you're Herculean you are so miserable
Coquet coquette you know I won't forget
How you made me cry to prove I was dutiful
Oh my coquette my teenage lust for you is so beautiful
With you I can only see my black-light constellations
And other shit I don't think I have the language to say
I don't want to catch you with some other guy's face under your eyelids
Something must be wrong
You give me emotional artifacts that can find no purchase

 

[fox69]

"Cutie Pie"

"Cutie Pie"


You are my cutie pie, my cutie pie, yes you are
You are my cutie pie, my cutie pie, yes you are

You'll be my cutie pie until the day I die
I hope that's a long time, cause I don't wanna die

You are my cutie pie, my cutie pie, yes you are

You are my cutie pie, my cutie pie, yes you are

You'll be my cutie pie until the day I die
I hope that's a long time, cause I don't wanna die
and live without my cutie pie

 

[fox69]

"Death Dance Of Omipapas And Sons For You"

"Death Dance Of Omipapas And Sons For You"


I want to dance so I don't have to think anymore
about the steam cleaned caterpillar in the pinafore
I want to dance till the meanings of words are replaced
by the snobbish foppish dandies with discriminating taste
taking lady's place and bouncing her face
up the escalator to inspect the fay new blonde
I want to dance to the voice of the phantom oboe
performing sprightly melodies of a rococo
I want to dance to the rhythm of owls
in a plumb who have fashioned tiny instruments
plucked with their thumbs
no feeling is more safe
then when you embrace me dancing
we don't need to call any of our friends
because I don't even care who else is there
if dancing is your legs laughing,
choking is your throat heckling,
cement grapes are falling (falling falling)
ah but the limp nymphs are calling me to dance

I'm so sick and tired of always feeling down
yeah just sitting around yeah wasting my life
I want to dance I want to dance I want to dance

 

[fox69]

"Death Is Not A Parallel Move"

"Death Is Not A Parallel Move"


All of my thoughts are from a foreign host
Now I feel just like a ghost
Now I feel just like a ghost
Now I feel just like a ghost
Now I feel just like a ghost

All of my thoughts are from a foreign host
Now I feel just like a ghost
Now I feel just like a ghost
Now I feel just like a ghost
Now I feel just like a ghost

All of my thoughts are from a foreign host
Now I feel just like a ghost
Now I feel just like a ghost
Now I feel just like a ghost
Now I feel just like a ghost

Don't be afraid lille vän of violence
I'm only poisoning you, not gonna stab you.
Don't be afraid lille vän of my troubled mind
I'm just poisoning you a little
With my gloom

This far too much like a noise
It happens to be not so nice
I must nod
I must shatter
I must diffuse
This fractured consciousness
This soft abuse

The identity I composed out of terror has become oppressive now
I must (not) defy (defeat) this dark assignment
I'm over it now
I'm so over it now

Don't be afraid lille vän of violence
I'm only poisoning you, not gonna shoot you.
Don't be afraid lille vän of my troubled mind
I'm just poisoning you a little

Every day

 

[fox69]

"Death Of A Shade Of A Hue"

"Death Of A Shade Of A Hue"


Over a sea of grief, Scarlet died.
Above her dying mind were fossilfied memory imprints of her favorite day.
For a minute, I stayed watching this brilliant display,
Until a god with a broom came and swept them away.

In their bereavement, all of her colorful friends turned to a milky-grey depressing blend,
Which incidentally made Grey feel inane, so he set off to find a less trite identity,
One as stunning and bold as Scarlet used to be.

 

[fox69]

"Def Pacts"

"Def Pacts"


Of course this world would be better without you
This is true for most everyone or at least people like us
But you can't really martyr yourself when no one gives a fuck
Stop acting like a victim stop conceding defeat
It's so tedious to watch someone you care for keep failing themselves

You've been dead twice before but it didn't really change you
Someone's always there to save you and then help you clean up the mess, you're a mess
I like how you're ugly, do I like you too much to really tell you what you're most needing to hear?
Christ, you're such a sadness

Won't you be good to me? won't you be fair?
Won't you be sweet, won't you always be there?
Won't you always be there?

Won't you be good to me? won't you be fair?
Won't you be sweet, won't you always be there?
Won't you always be there?

I think you're just looking for a reason to go off the rails, start another bender
To wound yourself, though it's never critical
You called me two weeks later to get some sort of closure
So you wouldn't have to feel like such a pig
But I think you should feel that way because you are one, maybe we both are

I know that someone else's pain is never interesting
Yeah other people's suffering is so boring
But I hope you realize that I could never hate you
Look to survive in this world you don't have to become a parasite
You don't have to be so mercenary so cruel
I'm only just now learning this myself

Won't you be good to me? won't you be fair?
Won't you be sweet, won't you always be there?
Won't you always be there?

Won't you be good to me? won't you be fair?
Won't you be sweet, won't you always be there?
Won't you always be there?

Won't you be good to me? won't you be fair?
Won't you be sweet, won't you always be there?
Won't you always be there?