Oh Sister - Neutral Milk Hotel
Version 1 of 2
- Oh Sister (Chords) (v2)Rating: 4.94 / 5.00
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
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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[Verse 1]
Oh sister, don
't be afraid o
f me
I won't be nailing you down in the nursery
Just like the
rest of them d
id
With those watery, wandering fingers that slipped
That were supp
osed to be glo
rious 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 zil
lionth infirma
ry
A mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany
All of the tim
e
And oh sister
Sweet brown and comely
I will be be milking with you making fun of me
Now that my mo
ods are not wh
at the used to
be
there is but no one alive laying next to me
for such a lon
g time
Oh sister, swe
et brown and b
eulahry
milk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry
there in the p
arlor all nake
d in front of
me
[Verse 2]
Watching the l
ights from the
cracks making
archery anima
l designs
Rose Wallace G
oldeline just
moves her mout
h over anythin
g
Fleshy free an
d flowering wi
th oranges out
in the open
But don't you
waste your sin
s again
She don't need
you
or won't fuck your friends
And you, you'r
e American, so
important boi
ling over
[Verse 3]
To prove that
she must still
exist
she moves hers
elf about her
fist
and never ever
ever give a s
hit
about all thos
e words you're
wasting again
Some pretty br
ight and bubbl
y wondrous dre
am
You'd like to
kill and claim
And claim her as your own
But don't you
worry
All those dain
ty and dirty e
motions just g
o away and fad
e out on their
own
Sister, now th
at we're griev
ing
Our fingers will falter
Our lungs will be leaking
All over each
other and with
out even speak
ing
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 ha
ve to carry ho
me drunk every
evening from
the cemetery
And if he makes it back half alive you can bury him
Under your she
ets
And oh sister
now that we're leaving
I can not imagine there is any meaning
forgetting you
ever could on
ce had the fee
ling that made
you keep on
and pretend yo
u were breathi
ng of all of t
his world
In an age of empty rings
I don't want t
o feel the thi
ng
I don't even w
ant to know
and Rose Walla
ce Goldeline
don't you ever
die on me
all the way it
goes and flow
s