Like A Tourist

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


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Merlion is the name of the half-lion half-fish creature that symbolizes Singapore. (please note that of Montreal played in Singapore for the first time in 2009 - we have videos to prove it.

Another rolling Stones reference.

Erykah Badu is an American R&B singer/songwriter/producer who seems to be Kevin's favorite artist these days. At least in his TOP5. "Stay 'woke' also is a blatantly stolen phrase from Badu's track "Master Teacher" from New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War.