WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely Chords | Ver. 2
[Intro]
E
(Strum the lower strings first, and then incorporate the higher strings
to get the same sound as Mangum does)
[Verse 1]
C
Oh comely, I will be with you
E
when you lose your breath
C
Chasing the only meaningful
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memory you thought you had left
With some pretty, bright
C
and bubbly terrible scene
That was doing her thing
E
on your chest
C
But oh comely
It isn't as pretty as
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you'd like to guess
In your memory, you're drunk on your awe to me
C E (He transitions the long "all" into the Ooohh comely next verse)
It doesn't mean anything at allllllllllll
[Verse 2]
C
Oh comely, all of your friends
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are all letting you blow,
C
Bristling and ugly, bursting with
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fruits falling out from the holes
C
Of some pretty, bright, and bubbly friend
You could need to say
E
comforting things in your ear
C
But oh comely, there isn't such one
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friend that you could find here
Standing next to me, he's only my enemy
C
I'll crush him with everything I own
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Say what you want to say
Hang for your hollow ways
C
Moving your mouth to pull out
E
All your miracles aimed
C D G D G D G D
for meeeeeeeeeee
[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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Your father made fetuses with flesh licking ladies
C
While you and your mother were asleep in the trailer park
E
Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums
C
The music and medicine you needed for comforting
E
So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving
C
And pluck all your silly strings, bend all your notes for me
E
Soft silly music is meaningful magical
C
The movements were beautiful, all in your ovaries
E
All of them milking with green fleshy flowers
C
While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines
E
Smelling of semen all under the garden
C
Was all you were needing when you still believed in me
E
Say what your want to say
Hang for your hollow ways
C
Moving your mouth to pull out
E
All your miracles aimed
C D G D G D G D
for meeeeeeeeeee
[Interlude 2]
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Da da da, da da da, da
E
Da da da, da da da, da
C (fade out)
Da da da, da da da, daaaaaa
[Verse 4]
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I know they buried her body with others
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Her sister and mother and five-hundred families
E
And will she remember me fifty years later?
C
I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine
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Know all your enemies
C
We know who our enemies are
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Know all your enemies
C
We know who our enemies are
[Bridge]
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Da da da da dadada
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da da da da daaahhaaa
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Ah da da da daa dadada
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Ahh da da da da daaahhaaa
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Da da da da daaa dadada
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Deeee de de de de de deeeeeee
[Outro]
Am
Goldaline, my dear
We will fold and freeze together
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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
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Place your body here
Let your skin begin
Am E
to blend itself with miiiiiiiiine
Am
De deee dede de de dadada
E
Ah dadada da da daaaaa
Am
Da da da daa da dadada
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Ah dada da daaa daaaa daaaaa
Ahh daaaaaa daaaaaaa daaaaaaa ohhhhhh