Neutral Milk Hotel – Song Against Sex (Guitar)

Capo 6

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Versions (5)

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[Intro] E5 [Verse]

        E5
And the first one tore a picture of a dead and hanging man

Who was kissing foreign fishes that flew right out from his hands

           B5
And when I put my arms around him

I felt the blushing blood run through my cheeks

       E5
And an eeriness surrounded when his tongue began to speak

                 B5
And he said...Oh boy you are so pretty

Enough to wrap tight in rice-paper string.

    E5
And when I finally kissed him the whole world began to ring

            B5
Lost like a bell that's tipping over

with two cracks along both sides

      E5
And I knew the world was over so I took a look outside

                B5
And watched the fires that were reaching up

to the weather vane and the tops of trees

        E5
And the waiting scene and the Sunday dream

                                  B5
they're all waiting here for me-e-e-e-e

[Instrumental] E5 [Verse]

     E5
Deli markets with their flower stands

And pretty girls and the burning men

        B5
Hanging out on the hooks next to the window displays

And I took out my tongue twice removed from my face

           E5
Across the bridge and across the mountains

Threw a nickel in a fountain

           B5
To save my soul from all these troubled times

And all the drugs that I don't have the guts to take To soothe my mind

             E5
so I'm always sober, always aching, always heading towards

     B5
Mass suicide, occult figurines

And wasted gas-station attendants attending to their jobs

      E5
And a nice drive in the country

Finds a nice cliff to drop off

            B5
Oh and this life just gets so grating

All the grittiness of life

          E5
But don't take those pills your boyfriend gave you

                               B5
You're too wonderful to die-ie-ie-ie-ie

[Instrumental] E5 B5 E5 [Verse]

        E5
And the last one tore a picture from the pornographic page

And all the pleasure points attacking, all the looks of love were staged

           B5
And it's a lie that you've been given

That just hurts you every day

       E5
So why should I lay here naked when it's just too far away

        B5
From anything we could call loving, any love worth living for

        E5
So I'll sleep out in the gutter

You can sleep here on the floor

           B5
And when I wake up in the morning

I won't forget to lock the door

              E5
'Cause with a match that's mean and some gasoline

                         B5
You won't see me anymo-o-o-o-ore

[Outro] E5