Neutral Milk Hotel - Ferris wheel on fire
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This is the whole album, taken from other tabs on this site,
I corrected some of the lyrics, and chords as well.
I'm sure there are mistakes though, so please correct me.
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OH SISTER
GOh sister, don't be afraid of me
I won't be nailing you down in the nursery
CJust like the rest of them did
With those watery, wandering fingers of spit
That were supposed to be Gglorious and fiCneG
GOh sister, won't you believe in me
I only wanted to be hard on the family
CHere with you now in this zillionth infirmary
A mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany
GAll of the tCimGe
GOh sister, sweet brown and beulahry
milk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry
Cthere in the parlor all naked in front of me
Watching the lights from the cracks making archery Ganimal desCignGs
EmRose Wallace Goldeline just moCves her mouth over anything
GThats fleshy free and flowering liDke oranges out in the open
EmBut don't you waste your sins again
CShe don't need you
or won't fuck your friends
GAnd you, you're American, self iDmportant boiling over
EmTo prove that she must still exist
Cshe moves herself about her fist
Gand wont ever never give a shit
Dabout all those words you're wasting again
EmSome pretCty bright and bubbly Gwondrous dream
You'd like to Dkill and clean
And claim her as your own
EmBut don't you worry
CAll those dainty and dirGty emotions just gDo away and fade out on their own
GSister, now that you're leaving
Our fingers will falter
Our lungs will be leaking
CAll over each other and without even speaking
We'll know that it's over and smiling or greeting
GWhatever comes nCexGt
GAnd oh sister
You're getting married with some angry twister
That you'll have to carry home drCunk every evening from the cemetery
And if he makes it back half alive you can bury him
GUnder your sCheeGts
GAnd oh sister
now that you're greaving
I can not imagine there is any meaning
Cforgetting you ever could once had the feeling that made you keep on
and pretend you were breathing of Gall of this wCorlGd
and in an age of empty rings
DI don't want to feel the thCing
I don't even want to kGnow C G
Rose Wallace Goldeline D
don't you ever die on Cme
don't you own the way you Ggo
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FERRIS WHEEL ON FIRE (Thanks to MoonFace)
Both barre chords. Barre F on the first
fret and G on the third. The F-G pattern continues through all verses.
Well now fiFrst of all
We became what we always had feGared
Every eFngine holds
All their oils on fire aGppeared
They finally broke thrFough
And on your shouldGer
This weight has been placed upon yFou
And everything we ever lGearned
But nFow I'm keeping still
In someone's bright carnivaGl ride
All tFhe crowd just cheers
As the bolts break and metal coGllides
SpiralingF through
And flying up over the hiGlls
And now everything's broken iFn two
And everything we ever Gwould
But now Fmost of all
I am holding you under my Gskin
Watch these Fbuildings fall
Watch as each weak resistance caves Gin
All over Fyou, all oGver
And now finally fading from Fview
Is everything we Gever knew
Repeat F and G throughout the last part.
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HOME (Thanks to Thewheeman)
E C G x2
EHold
Well you can Chold your hands Gtogether all you Eplease
Won't Cerase those tender Gtidings you Eendured
You were just Canother family Gmember on their Eknees
Just a Csocial work Gstatistic out the Ddoor
They beat Cagainst the tender Gsidings of your Dsoul
With all those Cpretty little Ghammers of Dcontrol
And where they Care tonight well Gyou will never Dknow
But I Cswear that I will Gfind thEem now
C G E C G
EMore
Its more than jCust a simple qGuestion of dEecay
More than Call those fists that Gbeat into your Edoor
It's more than Call the shrinks that Gtold you you're Eokay
It's more than Canything that GI have waited Dfor
They beat Cagainst the tender Gsidings of your Dsoul
With all those Cpretty little Ghammers of Dcontrol
And if they Ceven can Gremember I don't Dknow
But I Cswear that they'll GremembeEr now
C G E C G
E C G x4
EHome
It's just Canother word you'll Galways push Eaway
Just a Cmemory you Gwear outside Eyour clothes
And it will Cburn down into Gcinders and some Eday
They will Cburrow down to Gtheir parental Dholes
They beat Cagainst the tender Gsidings of your Dsoul
With all those Cpretty little Ghammers of Dcontrol
And if they've Cever paid a Gprice well I don't Dknow
But I Cswear that they will Gpay one Enow
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APRIL 8th (Thanks to liamf)
e|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|
G|-----0-------0-------0-------0---|
D|---6---0---4---0---2---2---4---4-|
A|-7-------5-------3-------5-------|
E|---------------------------------|
Just strum E at the end
Lyrics:
Crawl across toward your window
I'm calling softly from the street
Always a lonely widow
Half awake and sleeping on my feet
I'm of age but have no children
No quarter phone booth calls to home
Just late night television
Inside my bedroom all alone
There is no use in waiting
Offer up your steps so I can climb
Show me all your figure paintings
Etched in the middle of the night
Let me stretch upon your carpet
Let me hear the rain tap on your street
Knowing I am safe on the inside
(Strum E Here)
Blankets wrapped and drifting off to sleep
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I WILL BURY YOU IN TIME (Thanks to UtBDan)
I'll get around to putting the chords over the lyrics soon,
i'm just trying to get all of them in one place right now.
Chords used:
e|--C0-Gmaj13---0----Em0---G3---
B|--1----1----0---0---
G|--0----0----0---0---
D|--2----0----2---0---
A|--3----3----2---2---
E|--x----2----0---3---
CI will Gmaj13bury you in Ctime when the Gmaj13sea begins to
Cslide inGmaj13to this hole where EmI am smiling Gon your shoulder
CYou have Gmaj13buried my beCliefs where aGmaj13ll your sisters
Csleep, but thGmaj13eir scent of purEmity will breath when the Gyouth is over
Emfrozen in some lGost OctCoberGmaj13
And I am breathing into you
It makes your features move
And they shimmer like balloons that fly above the ocean
All the world is waiting here
You can hear the children cheer
But they'll need you when you're near
The brink of complete implosion
Crown your king when your life is broken
Everything you are I'm tearing through
Everything you want I'm wanting too
I gave you more than I thought I could ever do
But I will never break you down
And if I was the king of all the kids
You'd you hear me singing in my spit
But all you would hear is the shit inside my burnt emotions
I will bury you in time
When the sea begins to slide
Into this hole where you and I will sing our songs unbroken
As the water starts its choking
Dee dee dee dee dee
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ENGINE (Thanks to buh2001j)
G A C x 2
GFor I am Aan engine Cand I'm rollGing on
through endless rAevision to sCtate what I mGean
for sweetness aAlone who flew Cout through the Gwindow
and landed back Ahome in a gaCrden of Ggreen
A C G
you're riding aAlone in the Cback of a Gsteamer
and steaming youArself in the Cwarm shower Gspray
and water rolls Aon off the Cround captains Gbelly
who's talking to Atigers from Chis cafeteria Gtray
A C G
and sweet babies cAry for the cCool taste of mGilking
that milky deAlight that inCvited us Gall
and if there's a Ataste in this Clife more inGviting
than wake up your Awindows and Cwatch as those sweet babies Gcrawl
A aCwaaaGy yeah mmm mmm AmmmC
A C G x2
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A Baby For Pree/Grow Into You (Thanks to HipsterDoucheba)
C Em F Em C
C Em F Em C
C
CBlistering Pree, all smiling and swollenEm
Makes Fbabies to breathe with their hearts hanging openEm
All Cover the sheets as soft as beets in some brown Emdresser Fdrawer
EmAnd with Fbees in her breath and the rest of her ringing Em
They'll Fsting through her chest with a force hard and beatingEm
Until Cwonderfully wet she will get
Until she's soaked insideEm her Fclothes
And there is no sorry to be sorry Efor
For a roll around the Ffloor some afternoon so sound and softE
It made her swallow all her Fsweat with every bit of breath she Ecoughs
And when the day it came to Fpour all her babies all across the bathroom Gfloor
She will be swimming in them all forevCerCmoEmre F Em
CGlow right Eminto Fyou, I Emwill Cglow
Right Eminto Fyou I Emwill Cglow
Right Eminto Fyou
And I let you Edown
Swollen and Fsmall is where you find me Enow
With that silver stripping Foff and my tongue you're tearing Eout
And you'll never hear me Ftalk
CGlow right Eminto Fyou, I Emwill Cglow
Right Eminto Fyou I Emwill Cglow
Right Eminto Fyou
And I will be Estrong, strong enough
To Fshout above your voice that's blaring hardE
And your face that's falling Fout into the dust of what you arEe
F G C C Em
EmAnd I will never hear you talk
CGlow right Eminto Fyou, I Emwill Cglow
Right Eminto Fyou I Emwill Cglow
Right Eminto FyouE
And with my little Ffinger E
I could make it allF crumbleE
I could make it allF over E
Before yFou would eGven know
CGlow
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My Dream Girl Don't Exist (Thanks to Sister_Ray)
Intro - E B C#m A (x3)
E B C#m A My dream girl Edon't exBist C#m
AAt the age of five she Eslit her wrBists C#m
AShe didn't know that I'd be Ehanging arBound C#m
ASo her parents buried her Ein the grBound C#m
AAnd this day I can still Ehear the sBound
Of her C#mlife in AouterEspaBce C#m
A My dream girl Edon't exBist C#m
AIt's just you and I and Ethis TBV C#m
AAnd this illness seems to Efeel so strBange C#m
ALike a henchman that's aEbout to hBang C#m
AThe moon up like a Eball and chBain
inC#mstead it Astands aEblBaze C#m A
E And the wait is waiting Bah
E Build a world so real and AstrBong
E B C#m
E B C#m A My dream girl Edon't exBist C#m
AJust a photograph and a Ehistory bBook C#m
AAnd I believe she had a Evoice and nBame C#m
AThree children on the Ecoast of MBaine C#m
AHer life was in a EhurricBane
Of C#mlove and Areal emEbrace B C#m
A My dream girl Edon't exBist C#m
AAt the age of five she Eslit her wrBists C#m
AShe didn't know that I'd be Ehanging arBound C#m
ASo one day she took a Estroll to tBown C#m
AAnd walked in front of a EGreyhound Bbound
C#m For New YorkA Central sEtaBaaC#maaaaAaate
E And the wait is waiting Bah
E And the wait is waiting Bah
E Build a world so real andA strooBnnng
BShe goes and now she knows she'll never be aEfraid