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Oh Comely Tab

by Neutral Milk Hotel


         
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 guess                                     
In your memory you're drunk on your artery (???)
                             
It doesn't mean anything at all

           
Oh comely
                                    
All of your friends are letting you blow
                   
Bristling and ugly
                                          
Bursting with fruits falling out from the holes
                                 
Of some pretty bright and bubbly friend 
                                                
You could need to say comforting things in your ear
                 
But oh comely 
                                                
There isn't such one friend that you could find here
Standing next to me
He's only my enemy 
                                 
I'll crush him with everything I own

say what you want to say
                        
and painful your always moving your mouth 
                                                   
to pull out all your miracles away for me


  
Your father made fetuses 
With flesh licking ladies 
      
While you and your mother 
Were asleep in the trailer park
   
Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums
    
The music and medicine you needed for comforting
   
So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving
    
And pluck all your silly strings 
And bend all your notes for me

Soft silly music is meaningful magical
    
The movements were beautiful
All in your ovaries

All of them milking with green fleshy flowers
      
While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines

Smelling of semen all under the garden
                                          
Was all you were needing when you still believed in me

   
(Da da da part)


   
I know they buried her body with others
    
Her sister and mother and 500 families 
    
And will she remember me 50 years later
          
I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine

Know all your enemies 
   
We know who are enemies are

    (x3)


Goldaline my dear                       
We will fold and freeze together

Far away from here                   
There is sun and spring and green forever 
    
But now we move to feel
For ourselves inside some stranger's stomach

Place your body here
                                                             
Let your skin begin to blend itself with mine

             
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