Neutral Milk Hotel

And the first one tore a picture
Of a dead and hanging man
Who was kissing foreign fishes
That flew right out from his hands
And when I put my arms around him
I felt the blushing blood run
through my cheeks
And an eeriness surrounded
when his tongue began to speak
And he said
Oh boy you are so pretty
Enough to wrap tight in
rice-paper string
And when I finally kissed him
the whole world began to ring
Lost like a bell
that's tipping over
With two cracks along both sides
And I knew the world was over so
I took a look outside
And watched the fires
that were reaching
Up to the weather vane and
the tops of trees
And the waiting scene and
the Sunday dream
They're all waiting here for me
Deli markets with their
flower stands
And pretty girls and the
burning men
Hanging out on the hooks next to
the window displays
And I took out my tongue twice
removed from my face
Across a bridge and across
the mountains
Threw a nickel in a fountain
To save my soul from all these
troubled times
And all the drugs that
I don't have the guts to
take to soothe my mind
So I'm always sober
Always aching
always heading towards
Mass suicide occult figurines
And wasted gas-station attendants
Attending to their jobs
And a nice drive in the country
Finds a nice cliff to drop off
Oh when this life just
gets so grating
All the grittiness of life
But don't take those pills
your boyfriend gave you
You're too wonderful to die
And the last one tore a picture
From the pornographic page
And all the pleasure
points attacking
All the looks of love were staged
And it's a lie that
you've been given
That just hurts you every day
So why should I lie here naked
When it's just too far away
From anything we could call loving
Any love worth living for
So I'll sleep out in the gutter
You can sleep here on the floor
And when I wake up in the morning
I forgot to lock the door
Because with a match that's mean
and some gasoline
You won't see me anymore

The lady is dying
She bends back like a wave
As her spirit is climbing
Through the hospital wall and away

And I wanted to hold you
As you made your escape
But now I should have told you
When your eyes were alive and awake
Always in life we all must make this mistake

And so I go it alone
And the pressure is great
I hold on to my own
Oh, please - oh, don't go away

I wanted to know you
Before you started to fade
But I gave everything to
A lie and a farce and a fake
Always in life we all must make this mistake

And so I go it alone
And the pressure is great
I hold on to my own
Oh, please - oh, don't go away
I'd like to see you when all these angry days flow away

Always someone is waiting
swallow all the halos out of you
As your face blows through
my windows
Sending pieces flying
all around my room
And I love you and I want to
Shoot all the super heroes
from your skies
Watch them bleeding
From your ceiling
As their empty anger falls out
from their eyes
All alone

Blistering Pree
all smiling and swollen
Makes babies to breathe
With their hearts hanging
open all over the sheets
As soft as beets in some
brown dresser drawer
And with bees in her breath
and the rest of her ringing
They'll sting through her chest
with a force hard and beating
Until wonderfully wet she will get
Until she's soaked
inside her clothes
And there is no sorry to be
sorry for
For a roll around the floor
some afternoon
so sound and soft
It made her swallow all her sweat
With every bit of breath
she coughs
And when the day
it came to pour all her babies
All across the bathroom floor
She will be swimming in them
all forevermore

All I perceive is
wasted and broken
Silvery streams
sacred when spoken
Slam into me and
into the ditch of debris
And you smoke in the park
you sleep in the greenery
Everyone barks
They all still believing
To tear out your heart would
send all your secrets to me
But I let you down
Swollen and small is
where you'll find me now
With that silver stripping off
From my tongue you're tearing out
And you'll never hear me talk
Your teeth believe that
teeth are for tearing
Tear into me the scent of you
sweating smells good to me
As long as we keep in our clothes
And out in the dark the
world is still rolling
Kids in their cars
cigarette smoking
And all that they are just reeks
with the sweetest belief
But I let you down
Swollen and small is
where you'll find me now
With that silver stripping off
From my tongue you're tearing out
And you'll never hear me talk
All I could want is
silver and spinning
Out from your arms and
into the pretty
Pit of your heart so simply and
softly we'd flow
But I let you down
Swollen and small is
where you'll find me now
With that silver stripping off
From my tongue
you're tearing out
And you'll never hear me
talk Glow
Into you
I will glow
Into you

There are beads that wrap
Around your knees that
crackle into the dark
Like a walk in the park
like a hole in your head
Like the feeling you get
when you realize
you're dead
This time we ride roller
coasters into the ocean
We feel no emotion as
we spiral down to the world
And I guess it's worth your time
Because there's some
lives you live
And some you leave behind
It gets hard to explain
The gardenhead knows my name
Leave me alone for you know
this isn't the first time
In fact this is twice in a row
That the angels have slipped
through our landslide
And filled up our garden with snow
And I don't wish to taste of
your insides
Or to call out your name
through my phone
For the glory boys at your
bedside will love you
As long as you're something to own
will love you
As long as you're something to own
Follow me through a city of
frost covered angels
I swear I have nothing to prove
I just want to dance
in your tangles
To give me some reason to move
But to take on the world
at all angles
Requires a strength I can't use
So I'll meet you up high
in your anger
Of all that is hoping and
waiting for you
Of all that is hoping and
waiting for you

There is no dream
So wake up run your lips across
your fingers till you find
Some scent of yourself that
you can hold up high
To remind yourself that
you didn't die
On a day that was so crappy
whole and happy you're alive
And you seem so bruised and
it's beautiful
As it's reflecting off from
you as it shines
And you're in the bathroom
carving holiday
designs into yourself
Hoping no one will find you
but they found you
And they took you
And you somehow survived
There is no dream
So wake up and if the holidays
don't hollow out your eyes
Then press yourself against
whatever you find
To be beautiful and
trembling with life
Because I'm so happy
I'm so happy
I'm so happy
I'm so happy
you didn't die

"Your prettiness is seeping through
Out from the dress I took from you, so pretty
My emptiness is swollen shut
Always a wretch i have become
So empty
Please, Please don't leave me.

I'm watching Naomi, full bloom
I hope that she will soon explode
Into one billion tastes and tunes
One billion angels come and hold her down
They could hold her down until she cries

I'm tasting Naomi's perfume
It tastes like shit and I must say
She comes and goes most afternoons
One billion lovers wave and love her now
They could love her now and so could I

There is no Naomi in view
She walks through Cambridge stocks and strolls
And if she only really knew
One billion angels could come and save her soul
They could save her soul until she shines.

Until she Shines x4

So pretty x4
Please, Please don't leave me.

"

Crawl across towards your window
I'm calling softly from the street
Always a lonely widow
Half awake and sleeping on my feet
I'm of age but have no children
No quarter phone booth
calls to home
Just late night television
Inside my bedroom all alone
There is no use in waiting
Offer up your steps so I can climb
Show me all your figure paintings
Etched in the middle of the night
Let me stretch upon your carpet
Let me hear the rain tap
on your street
Knowing I am safe on the inside
Blankets wrapped and
drifting off to sleep