Oh Comely - Neutral Milk Hotel (Lyrics)

Lyrics for Oh Comely, perfomed by Neutral Milk Hotel
Track #08 in the album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea released in February 1998.


Lyrics:
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 awe to me
It doesn't mean anything at all

Oh Comely
All of your friends are all 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 only my enemy
I'll crush him with everything I own

Say what you want to say hang for your hollow ways
Moving your mouth to pull out all your miracle 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

Say what you want to say and hang for your hollow ways
Moving your mouth to pull out all your miracle for me

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 our enemies are
Know all your enemies
We know who our enemies are

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

[abhikmondal]

8:14 you could literally hear someone in the studio screaming "holy shit" at just how amazing the song was. and probably on how they did it in one full take.

[irschlem]

This man only stopped because he knew something this beautiful might not happen again and it pained him to believe this. I, for one, am sad to not hear his voice anymore.

[CB-ymng]

This song man. I made it a mission to learn every lyric in middle school. Still one of my go to shower songs.

[jaysonmunoz]

"Place you body here, let your skin begin to blend itself with mine" I haven't heard this album in a while but that part still gives me chills.

[uselessaccount]

Jeff's lyricism and the imagery portrayed in his lyrics are absolutely beautiful.

[theonewhoknocks]

This song is honestly a blast to sing along to

[BGasperov]

5:50 - 6:05 This transition is just pure bliss.

[PLAGUE-KARM]

6:44 onward is probably one of my favourite parts of any song ever, the way Jeff sings “mine” gives me chills every time

[michaelk]

Posted 3 weeks ago? I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that still listens to them

[Tremors-]

Wow, I did not realise how hard it is to sing along with this song. I don't know if I just have terrible breathe control or if his is amazing.

[jacobtuck]

No song has made me enter such a hypnotic state like this one whenever I play it on guitar and sing along. It sends my brain on autopilot and no other song has had that effect on me. Such a unique gem and no other song will ever come close to recreating that feeling for me

[JackT]

I remember hearing somewhere that this album was loosely based on the writer’s retrospective love of Anne Frank and when I first heard it I was intrigued by all of the subtle references made to Holland and aeroplanes dropping bombs and death and the aspirations of a young girl.

Then this song came on;
“I know they buried her body with others, her sister and mother and 500 families, will she remember me 50 years later, I wish could save her in some sort of time machine..”

I was so dumbstruck by the cogency and forwardness of the lyrics that a few tears fell, just like when I finished reading her diary. Both her diary and this album are unquestionably beautiful and tragical beyond compare

[UntitledKirk]

This album is a magical, ineffable experience. It's an album that has stuck with me for many years, and will continue to have a special place in my heart for years to come. Mangum and company crafted a masterpiece in '98. Nothing else musically comes close to rivaling In The Aeroplane Over The Sea's emotional intensity, as far as I'm concerned.

[emdressdelrenaissance]

a very special person showed me this band and I love him

[bamboostalker]

"Say what you wanna say.
Hang for your hollow ways.
Moving your mouth to pull out all your miracles
aimed for me."
Holy, Holy, Holy. 💗

[cadenwiener]

This is probably my favorite song off this album

[saphrondiehl]

I memorized every word of this song when I was 16 and still remember every word 7 years later. Will always be in my top 3

[apolloforabetterfuture]

A song so beautiful and good it physically hurts. First listen of the album you think the best song is in the aeroplane over the sea, second listen you think it's Holland 1945, eventually you realize it's this song.

[agc]

5:50 and 7:30 are honestly 2 of the most chilling and all around greatest things I've heard listening to an album. This is up there with my favourite albums of all time, and this is one of my favourite songs of all time. Holy shit indeed.

[fallenangelcrimson]

The chills I got from when I first heard the “and will she remember me 50 years later i wish i could save her in some sort of time machine” line was crazy…