Oh Sister

Neutral Milk Hotel

 G
 Oh sister, don't be afraid of me
I won't be nailing you down in the nursery
 C
 Just like the rest of them did
With those watery, wandering fingers that slipped

 GCG
That were supposed to be glorious and fine 
 G
 Oh sister, won't you believe in me

I only wanted to be hard on your family
 C
 Here with you now in the zillionth infirmary
A mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany
 GCG
 All of the time
 G
 And oh sister
Sweet brown and comely
I will be be milking with you making fun of me
 C
 Now that my moods are not what the used to be
there is but no one alive laying next to me
 GCG
 for such a long time
 G
 Oh sister, sweet brown and beulahry
milk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry
 C
 there in the parlor all naked in front of me
 GCG
Watching the lights from the cracks making archery animal designs
 EmC
 Rose Wallace Goldeline just moves her mouth over anything
 GD
 Fleshy free and flowering with oranges out in the open
 Em
 But don't you waste your sins again
 C
 She don't need you
or won't fuck your friends
 GD
 And you, you're American, so important boiling over

 Em
 To prove that she must still exist
 C
 she moves herself about her fist
 G
 and never ever ever give a shit
 D
 about all those words you're wasting again
 EmCG
 Some pretty bright and bubbly wondrous dream
 D
You'd like to kill and claim
And claim her as your own
 Em
 But don't you worry
 CGD
 All those dainty and dirty emotions just go away and fade out on their own
 G
 Sister, now that we're grieving
Our fingers will falter
Our lungs will be leaking
 C
 All over each other and without even speaking
We'll know that it's over and smiling or greeting
 GCG
 Whatever comes next 
 G
 And oh sister
You're getting married with some angry twister
 C
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
 GCG
 Under your sheets 
 G
 And oh sister
now that we're leaving
I can not imagine there is any meaning
 C
 forgetting you ever could once had the feeling that made you keep on
 GCG
and pretend you were breathing of all of this world
In an age of empty rings
 DC
 I don't want to feel the thing
 GCG
I don't even want to know          

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


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