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False Priest

by of Montreal

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1.
I see it, girlfriend I got so lucky with you Yes I feel you strutter I got so lucky with you So freaked out and depressed But now I see how I was so blessed, So blessed with you girlfriend I know there ain’t no one person that everybody else in the world hates on, wants to die, sometimes I do think it’s me, Like I’m in a fight simulator and I am crushing the birth of any potential memory I’m still way erect for you, not going to lie You cured me of my death anxiety, only took you two tries The head scene dropped the vaccine, and I’ve chosen a very powerful penance I know it girlfriend I got so lucky with you I feel ya’ strutter I got so lucky with you So hammer on guitar for who you are with me being your straight up only solid number yeah I see it girlfriend I got so lucky with you I feel ya’ strutter I got so lucky with you So tweaked out and depressed but now I see that I was blessed so blessed with you girlfriend I want to prove to you I’ve advanced in varna I can’t even pick up that brahmin signal any more I can’t cope with such an abstract blackmail domination spasm Although it makes a temporary difference I’m really not your possession, I am just your friend Still there’s an invisible suture that keeps me in my seat next to you till the end I made a wish that I really shouldn’t have Cause when it came true I didn’t know what to do with it Are we to blame for our dreams? I see your progress as a predator just like everything else We spoke of frontal lobe regression, this is not one of those I know it girlfriend I got so lucky with you I feel ya’ strutter I got so lucky with you So Cristal mimosa fizz for what you is, with being your one solid lion hearted brother yeah Girlfriend I got so lucky with you I feel ya’ strutter I got so lucky with you So freaked out and depressed but now I see that I was blessed, so blessed with you girlfriend
2.
You are such a crazy girl And I don’t know why I even tried to make you love me I want it babe but you are just a crazy girl you are such a crazy girl and I don’t why I even try to help you When I first met you at that al-anon meeting You made that reference to “All Your Goodies Are Gone” And even sang a verse, I was amazed how husky your singing voice was I wanted to talk to you so badly but I didn’t know how to come on because You’ve got that kind of beauty that makes people nervous I know it’s fucked, but before we got together I even hooked up with one of your cousins Just to feel somehow closer to you Because I knew like you guys were best friends and you talked everyday and it was thrilling to touch something that had touched you. In my head you were like this goddess, but, in fact, you’re just a Crazy girl You’re just a crazy girl I don’t know why I even try To understand you (can’t stand you) Your ass is crazy girl You are so crazy girl And I don’t know why I even try To relate to you (can’t wait for you, it’s too late for you) My god I should have realized On our second date When you dragged me into the bathroom at Tanika’s house And screamed at me for like twenty minutes Cause I had contradicted you in front of your friends, I was like “oh” And then later that night at my apartment As punishment you killed my beta fish Just threw it out the window I did everything I could to make you happy I participated in all your protests Supported your stupid little blog Got a bowflex, wore colored contacts to match your dresses Whatever your eyes caught I bought Still we fought Like Ike and Tina but in reverse Cause you’re so crazy girl You’re just too crazy girl And I don’t know why I even try To understand you Well…I think you’re crazy girl, you are so crazy girl And I don’t know why I even try to make sense of you Oh tell me why, Someone tell me why my hearts real weird for you still I was like crazy fan over you Like i’m all star struck over you Like I’m getting handcuffed over you Now it’s only fucked up Janelle Monae: My frame works in constant confusion I can’t peel away the flowers of this psychic disturbance And our riotous defects
3.
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
4.
Too high too fast Going to break our necks Everything about you screamed of godly intersex Nothing of thirds, Berdache, No human tracks The new forms were germinating I saw your aureole wax We danced for victory We danced for mom’s misery We danced for miscarriages We danced in garbage too You, everybody’s stoned about you Everybody’s thrown about you Everybody’s stoned about you I was running from home to school To home trying to keep my parents together Heir to their chaos there was such pressure to score high So I had to drop it As if I stood a chance after my uncle’s suicide Everybody looking at me to succeed him as the family’s golden myth While all my identity mutations were being dosed by books and all the drugs I took To prove I was brave but I was so afraid of the depths without measure You are my greatest treasure Yeah I had like zero pleasure until you excused me from your archetype You, everybody’s stoned about you Everybody’s thrown about you Everybody’s stoned about you
5.
Enemy Gene 03:37
Aren’t you sick of the con Not quite Homo-Luminous They’re expecting so little Can’t feel the miracle Of zombies licking your window For black body radiation Janelle Monae: 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
6.
How bout you my new favorite thing? I heart you though don’t know you very well I really hope that this summer you will change your pursuit I throw my guns down for you How bout you my new favorite thing? Their flashbulbs burn my irises But still i love to see you upon your pedestal I just love to see you win Oh when they torture you It’s like standing on a dragon’s tongue They flashed your pretty nightmare on the sky when I was playing your card Kissing your deaf son How bout you my new favorite thing? Will you have me in your orbit evermore? I know it’s work to cope with my dementia and stuff But I’ll throw my guns down for you How bout you my new favorite thing? Today I planted some flowers in your name I am trying to build a freak flag empire for three Cause I just love to see you win When they experiment I will become your surrogate I really can’t conceive of any balance in my future anyways The coma is poisoned You’ve rattled me, there’s uncontrollable sensory reactions on infinite defeat I’ve so much to tell you and it can’t wait till you’re born again
7.
I saw your movie tonight I thought you were pretty good I’m so happy that you’re doing what you want to You go to your favorite dark place, think of the auto-da-fé Unicorns eating baby meat There’s a dragon rape if you want one (one’s the loneliest number) Smokehood merlion, female erection, You fetishize the archetype Ha! you fetishize the archetype Don’t treat me like a tourist, let’s stay high on a negative wave And paint it black just like the good times Don’t treat me like a tourist, let’s stay high They break our hearts like it’s our birthdays, soak us in animal blood I want somebody to frisk me I want this night to distort me But I didn’t come here just to see you dancing No, or to admire your art Or try and cure your Androphobic heart Anyways I’m crippled inside Don’t treat me like a tourist, let’s stay high on a negative wave And paint it black just like the good times Don’t treat me like a tourist, let’s stay ‘woke’ like Pharaoh E.Badu And paint it feral in our heads again Like when we were passengers Don’t treat me like a tourist, let’s stay high They break our hearts like it’s our birthdays, soak us in animal blood
8.
Sex Karma 04:02
I believe we’re moving on up Your sex karma must be good Cause I’m funny for you Ain’t no body do me better When you hit me I’m a cloud Baby, I’m a cloud I feel my power is flickering With you its strange electronic reactions Solange Knowles: I know that you want to swing Run and touch my everything Cause I look like a playground to you, player Close your eyes and count to three, I’ll kiss you where I shouldn’t be Cause you look like a playground to me, player You are my only luxury item Anyone try to steal you I’ll fight ‘em Let’s go do some hide and seek I know you are a little freak You look like a playground to me, player I was afraid to call you up Cause you were really hard to fly On our first try You took me centuries to master In the next life I will have to learn you faster I’m not a diamond, so you’ll flatter Cause we’re not slaves to physical matter I know that you want to swing Run and touch my everything Cause I look like a playground to you, player Close your eyes and count to three, I’ll kiss you where I shouldn’t be Cause you look like a playground to me, player You are my only luxury item Anyone try to steal you I’ll fight em Let’s go do some hide and seek I know you are a little freak You look like a playground to me, player You look like a playground to me (8x) Close your eyes and count to three, I’ll kiss you where I shouldn’t be
9.
Who’s your reggae woman now, do you even know? I did a line with a girl named hello (I”m just kidding, yo) Who’s your reggae woman now, do you even know? I did a line with a girl named hello (I’m just kidding, yo) Took an overdose, didn’t do shit If I treated someone else the way I treat myself I’d be in jail If I treated someone else like the way I treat myself I’d be in jail Anyways, boo boo, you’re a breakthrough, I love you like being kissed And thank you for the wonderful birthday Who’s your reggae woman now, do you even know? I did a line with a girl named hello (I’m just kidding, yo) If I treated someone else the way I treat myself I’d be in jail
10.
I don’t want you anymore I don’t love you anymore Go away, go away, go away You’re a bad thing, terrible thing You destroy my head You un-calibrate my skull Go away, go away You’re a bad thing, useless thing You marginalize me You sabotage me Go away, go away, go away You’re a bad thing, you horrible thing You steal my light You suffocate my life Go away, go away You’re a bad thing, you miserable thing Like some childish demon that takes pleasure from its sting You’re a bad thing, bad thing Bad thing You act aloof Say that I’ll crawl back, you must be sick Thought she was my Annie Hall Or at least Ali McGraw Now I feel so wilted It’s a famine affair The whole attempt was shoddy Just to put trash in my body He was nostalgic for the ground Hope down the drain Still flew to your tragedy in a glass-bottom airplane Looping like a retard Are you still playing the race card? She said you’re not boring I’m just bored with you The psychology behind it is ruthless Wish it weren’t true Wish we weren’t so complicated Wish you weren’t so medicated I don’t want you anymore I don’t love you anymore Go away, go away, go away You’re a bad thing, terrible thing You don’t let me sleep And when you do it’s just teeth falling out nightmares Go away, you’re a bad thing, useless thing You marginalize me You sabotage me Go away, go away, go away You’re a bad thing, you horrible thing You’ve been trying to make me ugly so you’d have a reason to leave So you could say you were just like abandoning the ruins Bad thing, you miserable thing Like some childish demon who Keeps insects on a string You are bad thing, bad thing, bad thing You act aloof, say that I’ll crawl back, you must be sick
11.
How could I tolerate looking you in the eyes How you’ve evolved, no tears at all It’s not fair, it shouldn’t be like this You shouldn’t be so composed I don’t know, should be more awkward Hate you for bringing this up making me feel what I know just isn’t true You’ve ruined me, you’re a terrorist, I’m a casualty of you Your sister called today, heard the phone ring, really why should I answer? She’s so critical I wasn’t surprised to hear her single word message Just said “stop!” You stole something from me Can’t say what, just know it’s gone now Everything is wrong Everything is wrong Everything is wrong I’m a casualty of you
12.
You say you just want to stand there and dim out Just gonna root there and space Sulk cause there ain’t nobody really doped about your inventory Absorb celestial articles from neutral stations From the pain participants And by far mostly neo-family break strike pattern strike break deface When you get so quiet and depressed, hate it and I drop away again Can’t understand I want to die again I’m out here in the swell getting fucked up trying to cure you It’s so draining Really how can I help if you won’t talk to me? Thought you were around the way Not just a cliche Nina Barnes: Eg har aldri tenkt meg sanningi Som ein husfugl, Men um ho so vore, Kan du godt strjuka henne med fjøri Og ikkje jaga henne upp i ei krå Til ho snur ugleaugo og klør imot deg. Andre held sanningi for Ei kald knivsegg, Ho er både Yin og yang, Ormen i graset, Og fuglekongen som lettar frå ørni Når hu trur seg høgst. Eg har òg set When you get so quiet and depressed, hate it and I drop away again Can’t understand I want to die again I’m thrashing in the waves getting fucked up trying to cure you It’s so draining How can I help if you won’t talk to me? I thought you were a lover friend I’m your friend
13.
Ah, ah, ah, I need to mutilate We’re going to celebrate our emotional poverty Give the answers all away I painted my suitcase red for the reading Which only ended in conversation rape All they want, genetic telephonic pills Until the Spanish kids got so ill I was home-schooling with a knife in my shoe Never seen corpses act so cruel The self brutality was oh so angular I made him a potion in a newspaper cup, Smiled, gave me a shrug, said I was a fuck-up Now I see your face selling Chinese urine She came over the fence With an argument in her head no empathy Escape strategy I understood her We were trying to share a genuine human moment Just like the way they do in movies I’ve hit a wall with this suicidal depression It’s not the star I’m trying to call I’ve been standing on the strand far too long y’all Go ahead, go ahead! What you want? Somebody who will slap away your blindness? What you want? Somebody who would corrupt your heart with too much kindness? Salute to your Buster Rhyme-ness I got a black fang in Chicago My superwoman licked I don’t need a refill of this shit, I need something that works motherfucker! I wondered were you flattered, I tried to get you drunk I know you’re collecting disciples I know you want to be the godmother of soul-punk Someday, someday They’re all skyscrapers for you Jane Never use your given name I want to set you up for a sequel Make you feel like promised people I always knew you were special Your best friend told me he saw you crying Everybody wants to crescendo Take home a memento We tried to isolate XX infinite pleasure XY Yet I still was their family secret, a white symptom of some wilderness hate ceremony, Custodian for experimental post human relationships, in fact We tried to isolate XX infinite pleasure XY ineffectually, Now I know I’m not allowed to show the pain, not allowed to expose the pain I still was their family secret, a white symptom of some wilderness hate ceremony, Custodian for experimental post human relationships, in fact We tried to isolate XX infinite pleasure XY ineffectually, Now I know I’m not allowed to show the pain, not allowed to expose the pain All the white people from my neighborhood are dead All the black people have turned pink for the winter Everybody is searching for a cause A reason to blow themselves up Could be anything When will certain people realize That afterlife is nothing to live for Nothing to die for Nothing to fight for If those in this life are not sacred Then nothing that is a part of it Is sacred either If you think God is more important Than your neighbor You’re capable of terrible evil If you think some prophet’s words Are more important than your brother And your sister, You’re ill And you’re wrong You’re wrong

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