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Oh Sister Tab

by Neutral Milk Hotel


this is a great song, im upset that it never got published for the world to hear

i tabbed this in a hurry so all the chords might not line up exactly but oh well, i 
you are smart enough to figure it out anyway : )

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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 that slipped

                                        
That were supposed to be glorious and fine

Oh sister, won't you believe in me

I only wanted to be hard on your family

Here with you now in the zillionth infirmary
A mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany
            
All of the time

And oh sister
Sweet brown and comely
I will be be milking with you making fun of me

Now that my moods are not what the used to be
there is but no one alive laying next to me
                 
for such a long time

Oh sister, sweet brown and beulahry
milk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry

there in the parlor all naked in front of me
                                                              
Watching the lights from the cracks making archery animal designs
                            
Rose Wallace Goldeline just moves her mouth over anything
                                 
Fleshy free and flowering with oranges out in the open

But don't you waste your sins again

She don't need you
or won't fuck your friends
                               
And you, you're American, so important boiling over


To prove that she must still exist

she moves herself about her fist

and never ever ever give a shit

about all those words you're wasting again
                           
Some pretty bright and bubbly wondrous dream
              
You'd like to kill and claim
And claim her as your own

But don't you worry
                                        
All those dainty and dirty emotions just go away and fade out on their own

Sister, now that we're grieving
Our fingers will falter
Our lungs will be leaking

All over each other and without even speaking
We'll know that it's over and smiling or greeting
                 
Whatever comes next

And oh sister
You're getting married with some angry twister
                                 
That you'll have to carry home drunk every evening from the cemetery
And if he makes it back half alive you can bury him
               
Under your sheets

And oh sister
now that we're leaving
I can not imagine there is any meaning

forgetting you ever could once had the feeling that made you keep on
                                                
and pretend you were breathing of all of this world
In an age of empty rings
                          
I don't want to feel the thing
                                
I don't even want to know

                       
and Rose Wallace Goldeline
                      
don't you ever die on me
                          
all the way it goes and flows