Neutral Milk Hotel

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 for...

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...

You can deny all your addictions da da da da da (burp) do do de de do (burp) la la la la la la la That's how the melody goes It's on tape so I won't forget it 'Cause I'm a pretty weird guy And I probably won't remember it 'Cause it's currently 2:30 i...

Angel eyes You will sleep tonight But do not be surprised When you're not waking You gave away your soul And the rest, they stole But now it's your own life that you are taking. And all the world will rise in the morning A sun will shine inside a win...

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 n...

Folded in to arms, so real (or I hold it into arms so real) There is something that we can't feel Life's not horrible all the time Smokes and cups and words of rhyme Dripping ceiling, lemon-lime I love you, and that's all I have to say Eyes of gray and...

Your mother's mouth pressed gently against doorknobs And there's so much fuckin' piss swimming into and out of the kitchen Three feet up to the knees with cups and carrot sticks from our warm, golden glow of the refrigerator 

Shadows on my wall They creep and crawl in burning white They dream of waterfalls Catching slow bright streams of light. And life can be so weird Bucket full of fear But it's alright I'm on an isle And I've still got time to fly away Shadows in my d...

I have a photograph of your insides Dated June 2nd, 1989 I'm positive It's a photograph of your insides 

A candy coated dream With parks and trees and figurines And her arms wrapped 'round my sleeve With tiny steps and eyes of green; Toy guitar that's out of tune Eyes fixed on morning time cartoons And by the lantern of the moon I will dream of a love like...

A lot about coffins made of candy, and a little about ice cream 

Greet all your friends and they say hello They tie all your ends until they tie Yourself in again into something whole Something secure and lost inside And climb away All of the forces we uphold And all of the dangers we escape You wonder sometimes ho...

Sweet communist The communist daughter Standing on the sea-weed water Semen stains the mountain tops Semen stains the mountain tops With coca leaves along the border Sweetness sings from every corner Cars careening from the clouds The bridges burst and twist a...

But we fucked up that Remedial English class, because we were smoking pot We're not in college. Right. We can't move on to college, can we? So, like- We are not in college, are we? So, how do you move on to another place to shop if you haven't taken tha...

(For) I am an engine and I'm rolling on through endless revisions (just think) what I mean to sweet misses jones who flew out through the window and landed back home in a garden of green you're riding alone in the back of a steamer and steaming yourself in a...

Growing sleepy as the rain falls As children draped in flowers form a chain They sing a song with jelly jars and bird calls As night falls into dust and it's day again I'm not afraid of a love parade in my daydream Old men with kazoos and beating drums But I...

Well now first of all We became what we always had feared Every engine holds All their oils on fire appeared They finally broke through And on your shoulder This weight has been placed upon you And everything we ever were But, now I'm keeping still I...

Follow me down Strings of water plain Eyes are underground Wash the seed away Hands are feathered drums that spin Sound inside the quay Follow me down Follow me today Found you wishing rainbows Tasting words of wine Felt just like a painting Colou...

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...

Ghost, ghost I know you live within me Feel as you fly In thunderclouds above the city Into one that I Loved with all that was left within me Until we tore in two Now wings and rings and there's so many Waiting here for you And she was born in a bottle rocket...

I crushed the world I was in I'll destroy the world I will find I'll work the tools with my hands I'll stick the needles in my eyes And in my celebration You were by my side And now I'm going down And through the complications Something inside me died...

It's come and gone And it's a million miles away The dress she wore is all that shall remain And a clear blue sky It turns in my memory But now you find it stays, they come And remain unchanged Don't push me too far You'll never get anywhere like that...

The only girl I've ever loved Was born with roses in her eyes But then they buried her alive One evening 1945 With just her sister at her side And only weeks before the guns All came and rained on everyone Now she's a little boy in Spain Playing pianos filled...

Home – where you can hold your hands together all you please Won’t erase the tender tidings you endured You’re just another family member on their knees Just a social work statistic out the door They beat against the tender sidings of your soul With all t...

I hear you breathe as you sleep through the morning And the sun cracks through winter's wind Screaming out an effervescent warning That all that's true is sure to end But won't you peel your pies to the TV screen Won't you read me your articles from your...

I will bury you in time When the sea begins to slide Into this hole where I am smiling on your shoulder You have buried my beliefs Where all you sisters sleep That there scent the purity will make When the youth is over Standing in some Oct - October...

What a beautiful face I have found in this place That is circling all round the sun What a beautiful dream That could flash on the screen In a blink of an eye and be gone from me Soft and sweet Let me hold it close and keep it here with me, me And one day we...

I bring Jennifer flowers I bring Jennifer cupcakes I bring Jennifer snow cones I bring Jennifer yard rakes And we dance in the leaves That go up to our knees And I cough and I sneeze Only for Jennifer I bring Jennifer wine I bring Jennifer apple peel...

Part Two I love you Jesus Christ Jesus Christ I love you Yes I do I love you Jesus Christ Jesus Christ I love you Yes I do And on the lazy days The dogs dissolve and drain away The world it goes And all awaits The day we are awaiting Up and over We go throu...

If I were a mirror I'd look right deep myself And if things were much clearer I'd see a brighter day And if you were my lover I'd wrap your locks around my wrist And shake beneath the shudders That turn to black or fade For you know that life is neve...

Little birds born without a mother or a father I can feel their feathers forming in the running water Now there is another in the middle of my mouth A hundred altogether inside of me now Little birds, little birds, come into my body Mother, they're withi...

Let the world collapse and die It's sinking deeper in your eyes And I will sing a sweet surprise for no one Let the world collapse and swallow All the love she'll hold tomorrow And I will shield and I will follow no one And I'm all screwed up But I fe...

My dream girl don't exist and at the age of five she slit her wrists she didn't know that i'd be hanging around so her parents buried her in the ground this day i can still hear the sound of a life in outer space my dream girl don't exist it just you and i an...

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 billi...

Oh comely, I will be with you when you lose your breath, Chasing the only meaningful memory you thought you had left. With some pretty, bright and bubbly terrible scene That was doing her thing on your chest. But oh comely, It isn't as pretty as you'd like to...

Oh sister, don't be afraid of me I won't be nailing you down in the nursery Just like the rest of them did with those watery Wandering fingers of spit that were supposed to be glorious and fine Oh sister, won't you believe in me I only wanted to be hard...

No sky No sky to go with it No No No 

I need to taste your voice in my mouth I need to taste your voice in the air And I need to feel your skin against all that I retch out And feel your voice all over everywhere I need to paste your skin around the mailbox And hold the postman in your smile...

Sailing through Your disease and you. your disease and you Your body like a basket Shivering in static for us in this place of angry tears All those years you were alive inside the closet But nobody in it there but me But now you are coming Life is off running...

Say goodnight Like a ship at sea And walk away From a world that does not believe Say- say goodnight And open up your arms It's a beautiful life And I'm sitting in a jar So what was me, I do believe That my pants are all rolled up And I think it's ti...

She had a mental problem She couldn't concentrate She was her own delusion She was her own mistake She did a lot of acid To push the voices down And one day at her birthday They found her hanging upside down They say she lived her life on the avenue They say...

Sinking ship- How long can you hold still? Your illness spills against my face Sinking ship- How long can you hold still? Oh, can't you feel the coming waves? A perfect Sunday portrait of my mother painting horses all alone Of lovers and of leavers sti...

Go to sleep my darling Go to sleep my dear It's late in the evening And sleepy time is drawing near My mind is growing tired From December rains and winds So let's sleep by the fire of orange apple cinnamon Yes, I know it's hard to wait so long And yo...

When there's no one else around And the world just brings you down And the sun starts turning black And Nelson's head is in a sack Won't you smile for me? Won't you smile for me? When balloon just blows up And your teeth are in a cup And the drugs yo...

Cindy smiles in overcoats She says, "Please stay awhile, like ice cream floats and dreams And I will fill your heart with boats and bells and beans and candy-appled everythings Bells and beans and candy-appled everythings..." Cindy skips my trampoline With toy...

Someone is waiting to 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...

And the first one tore a picture Of a dead and hanging man Who was kissing foreign fishes That flew right out from this 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...

Everywhere I go Swallowed up inside 

Everything is made of water Seeping deep within your soul And as you're sleeping safe tomorrow The flowers in your heart will overflow Sweet Marie with your raspberry sunshine Won't you take me where I've never known I love you, love you, love you, love...

Up and over We go through the waving undertow I will float until I learn how to swim Inside my mother in a garbage bin Until I find myself again Again Up and over We go mouths open wide and spilling snow I will spit until I learn how to speak Up thro...

And I will take all of the pain that I can stand 

When you were young You were the king of carrot flowers And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder And dad would throw the garbage a...

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 beau...

Watch the wind blow your cigarette smoke Through my window and out to the sky This message sent, drilled into your heart But now the ink will fade Before the night is through my dear Where were you when the cracks were forming Where were you when it all...

Your love is like a building Pushing up towards the sky I just wanna climb your tower To your dress like apple pie Oh I love you on a Tuesday Oh I love you on a Tuesday moon Vegetable hand on my perfume I am changing colors daily Jumping to my postbo...

Two-headed boy All floating in glass The sun it is past Now it's blacker than black I can hear as you tap on your jar I am listening to hear where you are I am listening to hear where you are Two-headed boy Put on Sunday shoes And dance round the room to acco...

Daddy please, hear this song that I sing. In your heart there's a spark that just screams, For a lover to bring a child to your chest, That could lay as you sleep and love all you have left, Like your boy used to be, long ago, Wrapped in sheets warm and w...

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 and they are all still believing To tear out your heart would send all your se...

Wishful eyes Fill this room up with the spirit of your pride So, that all the world can hear it go in vain Tripping to the drain, wait I can explain Inside myself that I am seeking Little smiles, Every moment brings another wasted mile Between everythi...

Here we are, a final moment found inside a wood guitar That splits the seams wide open Oh Oh ‘cause I know who you are You paint the doors and walls and listen for the bell-chime calls And life is nothing more at all than tea-cup drips and bouncing ba...

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...