I struggled with a heroin and crack addiction. And it affected my relationship with the girl I love the most in this world. And she stood by through all the times we couldn't be together. All the lost hopes and pain. This was our song. Every single line. When I played it for her we both just cried.
Now I really understand this great song, when the album came out I was 13 years old and didn't care about the sense of the lyrics on the album, I was just amazed of the sounds on it. Now I feel like a melancholy boy, always looking backwards though I know that "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" and I realize how completely wrong I can be most of the time, but I'm still obsessed with the past and obsessed with "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?"
He's shy. He's wonderful. I saw him before a show, he was dreadful in his eyes. Uncommon for an artist. I love him, he's able to explore every single passion or feeling of human beings.
"I need you here and not here, too" explains how I feel about a lot of people. This song is beautiful on acoustic, even if it is a very different sound then the album version.
I am in LOVE with him. "Our love has so much potential but it's like we weren't made for this world. Though I wouldn't really want to meet someone who was."
This one reminds me of his earlier work you know the album with the song that sounded like this one that was released a specific amount of time ago.Well its either the music or the lyrics that are exactly like that one.
this is brilliant in my opinion. I love how slow and peaceful it is, even though what he's singing about isn't peaceful at all. I didn't use to be a fan of long acoustic sets until I came across bands like of Montreal. I really like the original version too, but I think this is probably the best I've heard.
I listen to this song in two ways..... sometimes I listen to it to hear the words and the story other times I listen to it just to hear how beautiful Kevin Barne's voice dances along the vibrations of the guitar
Who else here has actually sent this song to the person who this song is about for them well after the fact . :) this song articulated what I felt more than I was ever able to.
I love the album version of this, but the lyrics seem so much stronger without the layers of other musical elements. Parts of the song that I thought were decent before just hit me right in the heart now. "Because we're both so mean/ And it's my favorite scene/ But the cruelty is so predictable/ it makes you sad on the stage" And "I've been dodging lamps and vegetables/Throw them all in my face/ I don't care." Beautiful!
“No matter where we are, we’re always touching by underground wires. Now.” You have no idea how much this has saved me. And, therefore, others. Thank you.
Absolutely LOVE this version. I think the acoustic version makes you realise how sad/touching the lyrics are. I just think the lyrics fit the mood of the acoustic version better! Love these guys....
Wow... I can't make up my mind weather I like this version more than the original! Just brilliant, really makes you appreciate the lyrics when done acoustic.
The past is a grotesque animal- And in its eyes you see- How completely wrong you can be- How completely wrong you can be- The sun is out, it melts the snow that fell yesterday- Makes you wonder why it bothered-I fell in love with the first cute girl that I met- Who could appreciate Georges Bataille- Standing at Swedish festival discussing "Story of the Eye"- It's so embarrassing to need someone like I do you- How can I explain, I need you here and not here too
I thought the album version was brutal, but this tops it. Not just in the way its fantastically depressing tone somehow screams volumes louder, but the few places where the lyrics differ send this version to a whole different level. "I'd give anything to have fun again." "Sometimes I wonder if you're mythologizing me like I do you. It's better if we do. I don't want to know the real you." This album is perhaps the best album of the last decade, with this song as its crown jewel, in my opinion.
I'm pretty new to of Montreal and this is like only the third or something video i've seen of them. I am in awe, quite simply. I didn't move once through this, it's so beautiful. Y'know when you get that lump in your throat? Yeah, i got that. Amazing :)
I am glad that Kevin Barnes exists. I would go gay for him. This is pure poetry, so simple but yet I felt like none of it has ever been said. "Things could be different, but they're not." See what I mean?? Not to mention there is no chorus, no verses, no bridge, but yet it never gets repetitive. Well not to me at least.
i have this exact guitar..and i've always cursed it because the fret board is rather large while my fingers remain squished and wide. i'm going to stop blaming it on the guitar....haha i love of montreal. what inventive lyrics.
haven't listened to this song in ages, but theres a short film by spike jonze out at the minute called "i'm here"... it's pretty incredible, but there's a scene where this is being played at a concert in it. watched it earlier and thought, fuck i need to listen to that again. i'd thoroughly recommend "i'm here" to people who enjoyed lost in translation... 30minutes long. enjoy.
They used to, idk if they still do. A number of songs off of Hissing Fauna are about Kevin Barnes's struggle with addiction, namely "Heimsdalgate Like A Promethean Curse."
Kevin Barnes is a genius and one of the most talented musicians/artists of the modern day. People can say otherwise but music is rather saturated now with only the majority in mind, its nice to have something as pure as his music around. FOK THE HATERS.
jesus the song was already depressing but this version is just... heart shattering. It's amazing. I like the original version better, but still awesome.
who was TheBathroomWindow talking to? I don't see who he/she is aiming that comment at.. anyway, still a great song. love the other guy who comes in one "Heimdalsgate...", his voice is so cool!
well if you understood their music it would make sense for him to be saying hereto, since even in this song alone he sings such lines as you managed to red rover the gestapo circling my heart. HOWEVER, hereto and here too, in regards to the subject of the song ( a transformation from kevin barnes to georgie fruit) mean very similar, if not the same thing.
I don't know any other song with so many amazing quotes.
I struggled with a heroin and crack addiction. And it affected my relationship with the girl I love the most in this world. And she stood by through all the times we couldn't be together. All the lost hopes and pain.
This was our song. Every single line. When I played it for her we both just cried.
"sometimes I wonder if you're mythologizing me like I do you".
For me, it'll be hard to top that line.
So different than the original, much less intense, but really conveys the sorrow. He's a beautiful man, mind and body.
It’s been 15 years and still in love with this version.
His lyrics blow my mind. "You've red-rovered the gestapo circling my heart". I wish he'd write a book...
His songs are chapters in a beautiful book of the secrets hidden in our hearts... Kevin Barnes... you are amazing good sir!
16 years later and it is still so beautiful
I'm officially addicted to this song: this version, especially. I think oM should do an acoustic album.
Now I really understand this great song, when the album came out I was 13 years old and didn't care about the sense of the lyrics on the album, I was just amazed of the sounds on it. Now I feel like a melancholy boy, always looking backwards though I know that "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" and I realize how completely wrong I can be most of the time, but I'm still obsessed with the past and obsessed with "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?"
He's shy. He's wonderful.
I saw him before a show, he was dreadful in his eyes. Uncommon for an artist.
I love him, he's able to explore every single passion or feeling of human beings.
I love that we have 22 minutes of great music just from two versions of this song
My favouritr song, 10 years ago, now.. and probs ever.
I love of Montreal's sound, but I have to admit that this solo acoustic version is absolutely amazing!
Beautiful. He is truly a poet and a genius.
This song is amazing.
Every single line is quotable and so real.
"I need you here and not here, too" explains how I feel about a lot of people.
This song is beautiful on acoustic, even if it is a very different sound then the album version.
You can just feel the power in this song, even within this acoustic version. Kevin is a genuis.
I miss my Doberman
"You've Red-Rovered the Gestapo Circling My Heart" - One of the coolest lines I've ever heard.
'chapters' for this vid is a nicely poetic miniature version
I'd never realised the patience of this song
This song is killing & reviving body/soul cells. This version's chords: Cm / Eb / Fm / Ab.
I’m so touched by your goodness You make me feel so criminal How do you keep it together? I’m all, all unraveled........... I just love it.!
I am in LOVE with him.
"Our love has so much potential but it's like we weren't made for this world. Though I wouldn't really want to meet someone who was."
Fuck... this song. It hits me sometimes.
this is far better than the original, i think it sounds much more organic live, not to mention haunting. its so beautiful it gives me goosebumps.
Hands down my favorite song from them. Also, acoustic is better than original. Much more intimate, and down to earth.
UrinaryTractInspection I have a hard time choosing between this one and we will commit wolf murder.
Mudcrutch crystal river
... less manic is all. But it's the mania that made it so relatable.
This really is one of my favorite of Montreal songs, I really like this version because of the way it highlights the lyrics, which...well are amazing
i luv this. i come here often
This one reminds me of his earlier work you know the album with the song that sounded like this one that was released a specific amount of time ago.Well its either the music or the lyrics that are exactly like that one.
you've lived so brightly.. you've altered everything
this is brilliant in my opinion. I love how slow and peaceful it is, even though what he's singing about isn't peaceful at all.
I didn't use to be a fan of long acoustic sets until I came across bands like of Montreal. I really like the original version too, but I think this is probably the best I've heard.
I listen to this song in two ways.....
sometimes I listen to it to hear the words and the story
other times I listen to it just to hear how beautiful Kevin Barne's voice dances along the vibrations of the guitar
Who else here has actually sent this song to the person who this song is about for them well after the fact . :) this song articulated what I felt more than I was ever able to.
What an amazing song.
I love the album version of this, but the lyrics seem so much stronger without the layers of other musical elements. Parts of the song that I thought were decent before just hit me right in the heart now.
"Because we're both so mean/ And it's my favorite scene/ But the cruelty is so predictable/ it makes you sad on the stage"
And
"I've been dodging lamps and vegetables/Throw them all in my face/ I don't care."
Beautiful!
“No matter where we are, we’re always touching by underground wires. Now.” You have no idea how much this has saved me. And, therefore, others. Thank you.
These words pierce my heart... amazing version of this song.
im flunking out im flunking out im gone im just gone
i saw them front row last night in atlanta...truly magical!!
Absolutely LOVE this version. I think the acoustic version makes you realise how sad/touching the lyrics are. I just think the lyrics fit the mood of the acoustic version better! Love these guys....
also, if you take time to really understand the lyrics, i think theyre the best lyrics ive ever heard.
i saw them live last night from the front row in atlanta...truly magical!!!
Wow... I can't make up my mind weather I like this version more than the original! Just brilliant, really makes you appreciate the lyrics when done acoustic.
Absolute Love and Worship.
This is it!
their best song by far.
The past is a grotesque animal- And in its eyes you see- How completely wrong you can be- How completely wrong you can be- The sun is out, it melts the snow that fell yesterday- Makes you wonder why it bothered-I fell in love with the first cute girl that I met- Who could appreciate Georges Bataille- Standing at Swedish festival discussing "Story of the Eye"- It's so embarrassing to need someone like I do you- How can I explain, I need you here and not here too
i really love the direction he is going in with his music..i hope the next album is more epic dark songs like this.
acoustic version gets 5* also
this is my number one favorite song ever!!
Still my favorite arrangement of perfection. Thank you.
i love to close my eyes and listen to this song
I thought the album version was brutal, but this tops it. Not just in the way its fantastically depressing tone somehow screams volumes louder, but the few places where the lyrics differ send this version to a whole different level. "I'd give anything to have fun again." "Sometimes I wonder if you're mythologizing me like I do you. It's better if we do. I don't want to know the real you." This album is perhaps the best album of the last decade, with this song as its crown jewel, in my opinion.
Oh my god, I don't know how you can say you like Of Montreal and not like this version! It suits the lyrics so much more than the electro version.
i love this version better than the album version. so touching. so sensitive. so beautiful. :)
I'm pretty new to of Montreal and this is like only the third or something video i've seen of them.
I am in awe, quite simply.
I didn't move once through this, it's so beautiful. Y'know when you get that lump in your throat? Yeah, i got that.
Amazing :)
i remembered them all... and that was before i was a big of Montreal fan
i truly love this song
This is so awesome in so many levels...
Such a sad song...
But none the less, very beautiful.
I am glad that Kevin Barnes exists. I would go gay for him. This is pure poetry, so simple but yet I felt like none of it has ever been said. "Things could be different, but they're not." See what I mean?? Not to mention there is no chorus, no verses, no bridge, but yet it never gets repetitive. Well not to me at least.
That was so beautiful.
absolutely beautiful.
i appreciate georges bataille. and of montreal.
Just beautifully riveting.
Both versions are great in their own ways absolutely brilliant like a laser to the heart
Great song!
love, love . . . thanks kevin
I love this version, it makes it seem a lot more thoughtfull.
i have this exact guitar..and i've always cursed it because the fret board is rather large while my fingers remain squished and wide. i'm going to stop blaming it on the guitar....haha
i love of montreal. what inventive lyrics.
I think I know what you mean. Almost as if part of him didn't want to be in the spotlight, but he knew he had to. Amazing show!
Oh, I like this a lot better than the original version. It's just so peaceful and calming.
beautiful,nearly crying-beautiful
haven't listened to this song in ages, but theres a short film by spike jonze out at the minute called "i'm here"... it's pretty incredible, but there's a scene where this is being played at a concert in it. watched it earlier and thought, fuck i need to listen to that again. i'd thoroughly recommend "i'm here" to people who enjoyed lost in translation... 30minutes long. enjoy.
They used to, idk if they still do. A number of songs off of Hissing Fauna are about Kevin Barnes's struggle with addiction, namely "Heimsdalgate Like A Promethean Curse."
Ah! I'm torn between which one is better!
COMPLETELY different feel than the album version, but it's so good!
amazing
his voice is amazing
This is such a great song either way Kevin Barnes does it. PERIOD
I'm glad I gave it a chance, The album version is amazing so I thought this couldn't live up to it. But I was wrong. Almost better live!
oh my god... how much can you feel his pain?!
quite the poet.
deep as the abyss.
It starts of good, but never goes anywhere...
beautiful
Wow, I like this version even more than the CD version.
glorious.
The past is a grotesque animal... And in its eyes you see, how completely wrong you can be...
(all I have are 666 million regrets)
so in love
Kevin Barnes is a genius and one of the most talented musicians/artists of the modern day. People can say otherwise but music is rather saturated now with only the majority in mind, its nice to have something as pure as his music around. FOK THE HATERS.
jesus the song was already depressing but this version is just... heart shattering. It's amazing. I like the original version better, but still awesome.
So would I! If you come across it, let me know.... It's absolutely magical.
i was shocked when he bust out the f word
'Story of the Eye' is the closest I've ever come to barfing from reading a book.
Its like if bob dylan was coherent. Beautiful song
this is priceless.
so powerfull
I loved Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe:)
@OfMaunTreeAll google youtube to mp3, you can copy the url and it will convert it into a downloadable mp3!!
I have to admit, his acne scars make me smile
Hm, I see what you mean by saying its more cathartic, now. :]
And I agree. Barnes sure is a creative one.
who was TheBathroomWindow talking to?
I don't see who he/she is aiming that comment at..
anyway, still a great song. love the other guy who comes in one "Heimdalsgate...", his voice is so cool!
well if you understood their music it would make sense for him to be saying hereto, since even in this song alone he sings such lines as you managed to red rover the gestapo circling my heart. HOWEVER, hereto and here too, in regards to the subject of the song ( a transformation from kevin barnes to georgie fruit) mean very similar, if not the same thing.
yo lo entiendo como que el nesecita a ese alguien a su lado pero a la vez le gustaría no nesecitarlo tanto,
Konzoleking must have a very rich, fulfilling life.
Does, ANYONE know where to find an mp3 like this one?? I MUST have it!!!