Neutral Milk Hotel – Oh Comely (Guitar)

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[Intro] E E E E x2 [Verse 1]
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[tab]                                 D    E
I will be with you when you lose your breath

                C                                  D   E
Chasing the only meaningful memory you thought you had left

                                   C
With some pretty bright and bubbly terrible scene

                            D    E
That was doing her thing on your chest

                C
But oh comely

                                    G
It isn't as pretty as you'd like to guess
In your memory you're drunk on your awe to me
   C                          E
It doesn't mean anything at all
[Verse 2]
E          C
Oh comely

                                D   E
All of your friends are letting you blow

                   C
Bristling and ugly

                                      D   E
Bursting with fruits falling out from the holes

                                 C
Of some pretty bright and bubbly friend

                                           D    E
You could need to say comforting things in your ear

                 C
But oh comely

                                                G
There isn't such one friend that you could find here
Standing next to me Only my enemy
     C
I'll crush him with everything I own

E
say what you want to say

                              G
and hang for your hollow ways moving your mouth

                              E         C  D  G  D  G  D  G  D  E
to pull out all your miracles aimed for me
[Verse 3]
E
Your father made fetuses
With flesh licking ladies
      C
While you and your mother

                           D
Were asleep in the trailer park

E
Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums

    C
The music and medicine you needed for comforting

D  E
So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving

    C
And pluck all your silly strings

                              D
And bend all your notes for me

E
Soft silly music is meaningful magical

    C
The movements were beautiful

                  D
All in your ovaries

E
All of them milking with green fleshy flowers

      C                                      D
While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines

E
Smelling of semen all under the garden

    C                                               D
Was all you were needing when you still believed in me

E
Say what you wanna say and hang for your hollow ways

G                                               E         C  D  G  D  G  D  G  D  E
Moving your mouth to pull out all your miracles aimed for me
[Bridge]
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[Verse 4]
E
I know they buried her body with others

    C                                 D
Her sister and mother and 500 families

    E
And will she remember me 50 years later

  C                                                   D
I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine

E
Know all your enemies

   C
We know who our enemies are

E
Know all your enemies

   C
We know who our enemies are
[Bridge]
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La la la la la la la la dee dee dee

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Dee dee dee dee dee dee
[Outro]
Am
Goldaline my dear
We will fold and freeze together
E
Far away from here
There is sun and spring and green forever
    Am
But now we move to feel
For ourselves inside some stranger's stomach
E
Place your body here

                                         Am  E
Let your skin begin to blend itself with mine
[Coda]
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