Oh Sister chords by Neutral Milk Hotel

Chords with lyrics

The other tab on here is for an earlier version, this is the version on the Ferris Wheel on Fire EP.

G+G
Oh sister, don't be afraid of me
I won't be nailing you down in the nursery
C majorC
Just like the rest of them did
With those watery, wandering fingers that slipped
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That were supposed to be glorious and fine

G+G
Oh sister, won't you believe in me
I only wanted to be hard on your family
C majorC
Here with you now in this silly infirmary
Your mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany
G+G      C majorC G+G
All of the time

G+G
Oh sister, sweet brown and beulahry
And milk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry
C majorC
there in the parlor all naked in front of me

Watching the lights from the cracks
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Making archery animal designs

E minorEm              C majorC
Rose Wallace Goldeline just moves her mouth over anything
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Fleshy free and flowering with oranges out in the open
E minorEm
But don't you waste your sins again
C majorC
She don't need you
or won't fuck your friends
G+G                D MajorD
And you, you're American, so important boiling over
E minorEm
To prove that she must still exist
C majorC
she moves herself about her fist
G+G
and never ever give a shit
D MajorD
about all those words you're wasting again
E minorEm    C majorC          G+G
Some pretty bright and bubbly wondrous dream
       D MajorD
You'd like to kill and cling
And claim her as your own
E minorEm
But don't you worry
C majorC            G+G
All those dainty and dirty emotions
   D MajorD
just go away and fade out on their own
G+G
Sister, now that you're leaving
Our fingers will falter
Our lungs will be leaking
C majorC
All over each other and without even speaking
We'll know that it's over and smiling or greeting
G+G        C majorC G+G
Whatever comes next

G+G
And oh sister
You're getting married with some angry twister
                 C majorC
That you'll have to carry home drunk every evening from the cemetery
And if he makes it back half alive you can bury him
G+G       C majorC G+G
Under your sheets

G+G
And oh sister
now that you're greaving
I can not imagine there is any meaning
C majorC
forgetting you ever could once had the feeling that made you keep on
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and pretend you were breathing of all of this world
In an age of empty rings
D MajorD            C majorC
I don't want to feel a thing
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I don't even want to know

            D MajorD
and Rose Wallace Goldeline
           C majorC
don't you ever die on me
              G+G
Don't you own the way you go