Neutral Milk Hotel

Oh Comely

Neutral Milk Hotel


Tom: G

E        C
Oh comely 
                                         E
I will be with you when you lose your breath
                C                                        E
Chasing the only meaningful memory you thought you had left
                                      C
With some pretty bright and bubbly terrible scene
                                  E
That was doing her thing on your chest

              C
But oh comely 
                                      G
It isn't as pretty as you'd like to guess  
                                   
In your memory you're drunk on your automy
   C                            E
It doesn't mean anything at all

          C
Oh comely
                                      E
All of your friends are letting you blow
                   C
Bristling and ugly
                                            E
Bursting with fruits falling out from the holes
                                   C
Of some pretty bright and bubbly friend 
                                                 E
You could need to say comforting things in your ear

              C
But oh comely 
                                                 G
There isn't such one friend that you could find here

Standing next to me he's only my enemy 
     C
I'll crush him with everything i own

E
Say what you want to say
                           G
And painful your always moving your mouth 
                               E       C  D   
To pull out all your miracles away for me

( G  D  G  D )
( G  D  E )

  E
Your father made fetuses with flesh licking ladies 
  C
While you and your mother were asleep in the trailer park
E
Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums
  C
The music and medicine you needed for comforting
 E
So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving
  C
And pluck all your silly strings and bend all your notes for me
E
Soft silly music is meaningful magical
  C
The movements were beautiful all in your ovaries
E
All of them milking with green fleshy flowers
   C
While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines
E
Smelling of semen all under the garden
 C
Was all you were needing when you still believed in me

G
Say what you want to say
                           C
And painful your always moving your mouth 
                               E       C  D   
To pull out all your miracles away for me

( G  D  G  D )
( G  D  E )

E  C
(Da da da part)
E  C
(Da da da part)  

E
I know they buried her body with others
      C
Her sister and mother and 500 families 
  E
And will she remember me 50 years later
   C
I wished i could save her in some sort of time machine
 E
Know all your enemies 
 C
We know who are enemies are
 E
Know all your enemies 
 C
We know who are enemies are

( Am  E  Am  E ) 
( Am  E  Am  E )

Am
Goldaline my dear we will fold and freeze together
E
Far away from here there is sun and spring and green forever 
  Am
But now we move to feel for ourselves inside some stranger's stomach
E
Place your body here
                                           Am    E
Let your skin begin to blend itself with mine

Am        E
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