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.

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]