Neutral Milk Hotel

Neutral Milk Hotel is an American indie-rock group from Athens, Georgia. Band leader Jeff Mangum was the sole writer of the group's lyrics. The group is notable for In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, retrospectively considered one of the best albums of the 1990s.

And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea
But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see

I will shout until they know what I mean.

How strange it is to be anything at all

And she was born in a bottle rocket, 1929
With wings that ringed around a socket
Right between her spine
All drenched in milk and holy water
Pouring from the sky
I know that she will live forever
She won’t ever die

When you were young, you were the king of carrot flowers

The Earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are

And when we break we'll wait for our miracle
God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life

Quotes

On Avery Island (1996)

• Someone is waiting
  To swallow all the halos out of you
  As your face blows through my windows
  Sending pieces flying all around the room
  • Someone Is Waiting

• All I could want is silver and spinning out from your arms
  And into the pretty pit of your heart
  So simply and softly we'd flow, but I let you down
  And swollen and small is where you'll find me now
  With that silver stripping off from my tongue you're tearing out
  And you'll never hear me talk
  • Where You'll Find Me Now

• And I don't wish to taste of your insides
  Or to call out your name through my phone
  For the glory boys at your bedside
  Will love you as long as you're something to own
  • Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone

• Follow me through a city of frost covered angels
  I swear I have nothing to prove
  I just want to dance in your tangles
  To give me some reason to move
  • Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone

• I'm watching Naomi, full bloom
  I'm hoping she will soon explode
  Into one billion tastes and tunes
  One billion angels come and hold her down
  They hold her down until she shines
  • Naomi

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)

• When you were young, you were the king of carrot flowers
  • The King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt. I [first line of the album]

• And this is the room, one afternoon, I knew I could love you
  And from above you how I sank into your soul
  Into that secret place where no one dares to go
  • The King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt. I

• And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy’s shoulder
  And dad would throw the garbage all across the floor
  As we would lay and learn what each other’s bodies were for.
  • The King Of Carrot Flowers, Pt. I

• I love you, Jesus Christ
  Jesus Christ, I love you, yes I do
  • The King Of Carrot Flowers, Pts. II & III

• I will shout until they know what I mean.
  • The King Of Carrot Flowers, Pts. II & III

• And one day we will die
  And our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea
  But for now we are young
  Let us lay in the sun
  And count every beautiful thing we can see
  Love to be
  In the arms of all I'm keeping here with me
  • In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

• Oh, how I remember you
  How I would push my fingers through your mouth to make those muscles move
  That made your voice so smooth and sweet.
  • In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

• How strange it is to be anything at all
  • In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

• Catching signals that sound in the dark
  we will take off our clothes
  And they'll be placing fingers through the notches in your spine
  And when all is breaking, everything that you could keep beside
  Now your eyes ain't movin'
  Now they just lay there in their climb
  • Two-Headed Boy, Pt. I

• Now she’s a little boy in Spain
  Playing pianos filled with flames
  On empty rings around the sun.
  • Holland, 1945

The Earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are

• • Holland, 1945

• Semen stains the mountaintops
  • Communist Daughter

• 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 stranger's stomach
  Place your body here, let your skin begin to blend itself with mine
  • Oh, Comely

• 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
  • Oh, Comely

• And she was born in a bottle rocket, 1929
  With wings that ringed around a socket
  Right between her spine
  All drenched in milk and holy water
  Pouring from the sky
  I know that she will live forever
  She won’t ever die
• Ghost

• And in my dreams you're alive and you're crying
  As your mouth moves in mine, soft and sweet
  Ring of flowers 'round your eyes and I'll love you
  For the rest of your life
  (When you're ready)
  • Two-Headed Boy Pt. II

• And when we break we'll wait for our miracle
  God is a place where some holy spectacle lies
  And when we break we'll wait for our miracle
  God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life
  • Two-Headed Boy Pt. II

• Two-headed boy
  She is all you could need
  She will feed you tomatoes and radio wire
  And retire to sheets safe and clean
  But don't hate her when she gets up to leave
  • Two-Headed Boy Pt. II [last lines of the album]

External links

• The official Elephant 6 Records website
• The official Orange Twin Records website