OF MONTREAL – 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.

OF MONTREAL – 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…

OF MONTREAL – Our Love Is Senile

So now she’s turning a corner
Wants to leave me again
Though it’s sad, I really should want her
“You can only break up so many times
Before losing us to absurdity
Without becoming farcical,” she said
How can we continue when you’re telling the truth and I still don’t believe you

So now she’s getting tired
Wondering if it’s a geek or precedence
And just how to lay her forward
When her man is a mess and never there
Though it’s sad we’ve no populace
It’s much worse to gather in silence
But it’s more than just civility, we need laughter, happiness, madness, anything

Our love is senile
Like a blind child bumping into walls
Say it’s not guilt keeping us together
How can we support each others’ wills?
Our love is senile
Like we don’t recognize each other
Somehow we relapsed to being strangers
And scaling black tiles of sacred ground

Now it’s time to play the socialist
And protect my little chick from a problem and confusion
It’s evasive misses no solution

OF MONTREAL – Disguises

I used to know everything about you
But today when I tried to point you out to one of my friends
I picked the wrong girl again
Don’t see you in the crowd anymore
I think it’s you but I can’t be sure
You’re wearing disguises
Occasionally a girl surprises me
When she turns out to be you
Wearing disguises

I don’t think you want me to see you ever again
And today I saw you dressed as a flower bed
Last week you had a wig on your head
Directing traffic in the street
And your shoes were too big for your feet
You were wearing disguises
Occasionally a girl surprises me
When she turns out to be you
Wearing disguises

[repeat first verse]
Wearing disguises
Wearing disguises
Wearing disguises
Wearing disguises

OF MONTREAL – Disconnect The Dots

Come disconnect the dots with me, poppet! Come disconnect the dots…
Come disconnect the dots with me, poppet! Come disconnect the dots…

It’s so beautiful
Our lunacy
It’s so beautiful

Come disconnect the dots with me, poppet! Come disconnect the dots…
Come disconnect the dots with me, poppet! Come disconnect the dots…

It’s so beautiful
Our lunacy
It’s so beautiful

Oooo…
La, la la la, la la…

Come disconnect the dots with me, poppet! Come disconnect the dots…
Come disconnect the dots with me, poppet! Come disconnect the dots…

OF MONTREAL – Authentic Pyrrhic Remission

So much violence in my head
How are we still alive
The condition is under control
(No it’s not, don’t you ever stop buying that air)

I love how we’re learning from each other
You are such an positive
You’re so empowering
Left in your hands, I’m quite simply a different instrument
And you’re the only one that ever put money on me
You think that I’d forget so easily
You can emit a charge that’s (to die?)
I know we’re of the same tribe
The Fall’s the most productive season
Still a crippling fear as we (conceive?) and we’re slightly (moribund?)
So naturally I want to help you and invoke the architect of salutary needs
Architects are present with divine mechanics, but oh how we’re tyranized by
tentacles of their theorized to ability that’s all so disappointing
(Sheer difference)

I love how we’re learning from each other
You are such a positive
You’re so empowering
In your hands, I’m quite simply a different instrument
And you’re the only one that ever put money on me
How to advance transhuman singularity

I love how we’re learning from each other
You are such a positive
You’re so empowering
In your hands, I’m quite simply a different instrument
And you’re the only one that ever put money on me
You think that I’d forget so easily

I love how we’re learning from each other

Everytime I listen to my heart
Just get hurt

Until this afternoon, I was a nomad
No country would call me its son
I’d be a refugee, but I have no substance
Asking for papers, I have none

Until this afternoon, I was a pariah
Amoral, chased, kicked, and hit
Hunted even in my dreaming
But there was no crime I did commit

Until this afternoon, I was an exile
And now that word is obsolete
The ontonations know concept of ego
Our illumination is complete

OF MONTREAL – And I’ve Seen A Bloody Shadow

Turning tricks on the hood of Jasmine’s car
That whole summer was really just too peculiar
You know I would of given it up to almost anybody
That had a little money and was sweet to me
Yeah I was down to give it up to almost anyone
Who was sweet to me

It was rough we had to crawl down to the basement
For to hide from this digital wolf
He had no eyes but he could see using electrical force

Biting the prick that feeds me in my sister’s bathroom
How can I function man in the face of all this butchery
My mind is exploding with sappy murders they
really poison my sexuality
How can I function there’s no more Appalonian beauty to behold

Lillivan the heart is not dead
It’s just bad weather in my temporary head
In my temporary head
Mama my heart’s not dead
It’s just really bad weather in my temporary head

OF MONTREAL – Alter Eagle

I went to Lille
Saw “Clash of the Titans”
Cracked the egg I was born in
There was nothing inside it yet
Just a face for a name I forget

Hold my place while I
Check my style in an eagle shaped mirror!

Can I help you?
Yeah, I’m looking for some neon prescription glasses
that, you know, will glow when all the lights are out
when I am trying to quantify the weight of God.
Wait, I’ll wait

Check my style in my eagle shaped mirror!
Check my style in my eagle shaped mirror!
Check my style in an eagle shaped mirror!
Check my style in my eagle shaped mirror!
Check my style in an eagle shaped mirror!
Check my style in an eagle shaped mirror!
Check my style in an eagle shaped mirror!
Check my style in an eagle shaped mirror!

OF MONTREAL – Dour Percentage

Waking up alone
No song to sing us off the edge
The speakers are blown
This planet is an orphanage
Deep abandonment issues at our core
But if not each other, let’s fuck our tool to really keep us lethal

Ain’t got no ride
Least not one that returns our message
Our parents aside,
this planet is an orphanage
And it cheapens us
the way you and I
torment each other
It’s just the way we combine

Time for you to decide
Get on the concrete
You with the soldier
Are you just playing yourself and me too?
I got your letter and it hurt me so many ways
Had no breath to respond
Boy, you let your brothers down
And you would have it your own personal ghetto
But no one’s forcing you to stay there
Our circle’s not so cannibalistic, baby

Waking up alone
No song to sing us off the edge
The speakers are blown
This planet is an orphanage
Deep abandonment issues at our core
But if not each other, let’s fuck our tool to really keep us lethal

Ain’t got no ride
Least not one that returns our message
Our parents aside,
this planet is an orphanage
And it cheapens us
The way you and I
torture each other
It’s just the way we collide

It’s time to make up your mind
Get in the cellar
Are you going to betray yourself,
or come join us up on the days?
The conspiracy that’s forever unfolding in your head
It’s just not real
Boy, you let your people down
I put so much of myself here
Just to try and accommodate you
You know I saved your life a little too, hey brother

I don’t resent you, but I can’t settle the debt of our serrated history and blows I haven’t got over yet

And it cheapens us the way you and I torment each other