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Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely Chords

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Oh Comely Chords

(ver. 2)
Neutral Milk Hotel
[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
                            E
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
              G
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
                     E
are all letting you blow,
                   C
Bristling and ugly, bursting with
                             E
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
                            G
friend that you could find here

Standing next to me, he's only my enemy
     C
I'll crush him with everything I own
E
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]
E


[Verse 3]
     E
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]
E                     C
  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]
E
I know they buried her body with others
    C
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
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]
Am
   Da da da da dadada
      E
da da da da daaahhaaa
   Am
Ah da da da daa dadada
          E
Ahh da da da da daaahhaaa
   Am
Da da da da daaa dadada
            E
Deeee de de de de de deeeeeee


[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

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
        E            
Ah dada da daaa daaaa daaaaa

Ahh daaaaaa daaaaaaa daaaaaaa ohhhhhh             
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