Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex
And the first one tore a picture
Of a dead and hanging man
Who was kissing foreign fishes
That flew right out from his hands
And when I put my arms around him
I felt the blushing blood run
through my cheeks
And an eeriness surrounded
when his tongue began to speak
And he said
Oh boy you are so pretty
Enough to wrap tight in
rice-paper string
And when I finally kissed him
the whole world began to ring
Lost like a bell
that's tipping over
With two cracks along both sides
And I knew the world was over so
I took a look outside
And watched the fires
that were reaching
Up to the weather vane and
the tops of trees
And the waiting scene and
the Sunday dream
They're all waiting here for me
Deli markets with their
flower stands
And pretty girls and the
burning men
Hanging out on the hooks next to
the window displays
And I took out my tongue twice
removed from my face
Across a bridge and across
the mountains
Threw a nickel in a fountain
To save my soul from all these
troubled times
And all the drugs that
I don't have the guts to
take to soothe my mind
So I'm always sober
Always aching
always heading towards
Mass suicide occult figurines
And wasted gas-station attendants
Attending to their jobs
And a nice drive in the country
Finds a nice cliff to drop off
Oh when this life just
gets so grating
All the grittiness of life
But don't take those pills
your boyfriend gave you
You're too wonderful to die
And the last one tore a picture
From the pornographic page
And all the pleasure
points attacking
All the looks of love were staged
And it's a lie that
you've been given
That just hurts you every day
So why should I lie here naked
When it's just too far away
From anything we could call loving
Any love worth living for
So I'll sleep out in the gutter
You can sleep here on the floor
And when I wake up in the morning
I forgot to lock the door
Because with a match that's mean
and some gasoline
You won't see me anymore
Of a dead and hanging man
Who was kissing foreign fishes
That flew right out from his hands
And when I put my arms around him
I felt the blushing blood run
through my cheeks
And an eeriness surrounded
when his tongue began to speak
And he said
Oh boy you are so pretty
Enough to wrap tight in
rice-paper string
And when I finally kissed him
the whole world began to ring
Lost like a bell
that's tipping over
With two cracks along both sides
And I knew the world was over so
I took a look outside
And watched the fires
that were reaching
Up to the weather vane and
the tops of trees
And the waiting scene and
the Sunday dream
They're all waiting here for me
Deli markets with their
flower stands
And pretty girls and the
burning men
Hanging out on the hooks next to
the window displays
And I took out my tongue twice
removed from my face
Across a bridge and across
the mountains
Threw a nickel in a fountain
To save my soul from all these
troubled times
And all the drugs that
I don't have the guts to
take to soothe my mind
So I'm always sober
Always aching
always heading towards
Mass suicide occult figurines
And wasted gas-station attendants
Attending to their jobs
And a nice drive in the country
Finds a nice cliff to drop off
Oh when this life just
gets so grating
All the grittiness of life
But don't take those pills
your boyfriend gave you
You're too wonderful to die
And the last one tore a picture
From the pornographic page
And all the pleasure
points attacking
All the looks of love were staged
And it's a lie that
you've been given
That just hurts you every day
So why should I lie here naked
When it's just too far away
From anything we could call loving
Any love worth living for
So I'll sleep out in the gutter
You can sleep here on the floor
And when I wake up in the morning
I forgot to lock the door
Because with a match that's mean
and some gasoline
You won't see me anymore
And the first one tore a picture
Of a dead and hanging man
Who was kissing foreign fishes
That flew right out from his hands
And when I put my arms around him
I felt the blushing blood run
through my cheeks
And an eeriness surrounded
when his tongue began to speak
And he said
Oh boy you are so pretty
Enough to wrap tight in
rice-paper string
And when I finally kissed him
the whole world began to ring
Lost like a bell
that's tipping over
With two cracks along both sides
And I knew the world was over so
I took a look outside
And watched the fires
that were reaching
Up to the weather vane and
the tops of trees
And the waiting scene and
the Sunday dream
They're all waiting here for me
Deli markets with their
flower stands
And pretty girls and the
burning men
Hanging out on the hooks next to
the window displays
And I took out my tongue twice
removed from my face
Across a bridge and across
the mountains
Threw a nickel in a fountain
To save my soul from all these
troubled times
And all the drugs that
I don't have the guts to
take to soothe my mind
So I'm always sober
Always aching
always heading towards
Mass suicide occult figurines
And wasted gas-station attendants
Attending to their jobs
And a nice drive in the country
Finds a nice cliff to drop off
Oh when this life just
gets so grating
All the grittiness of life
But don't take those pills
your boyfriend gave you
You're too wonderful to die
And the last one tore a picture
From the pornographic page
And all the pleasure
points attacking
All the looks of love were staged
And it's a lie that
you've been given
That just hurts you every day
So why should I lie here naked
When it's just too far away
From anything we could call loving
Any love worth living for
So I'll sleep out in the gutter
You can sleep here on the floor
And when I wake up in the morning
I forgot to lock the door
Because with a match that's mean
and some gasoline
You won't see me anymore
Of a dead and hanging man
Who was kissing foreign fishes
That flew right out from his hands
And when I put my arms around him
I felt the blushing blood run
through my cheeks
And an eeriness surrounded
when his tongue began to speak
And he said
Oh boy you are so pretty
Enough to wrap tight in
rice-paper string
And when I finally kissed him
the whole world began to ring
Lost like a bell
that's tipping over
With two cracks along both sides
And I knew the world was over so
I took a look outside
And watched the fires
that were reaching
Up to the weather vane and
the tops of trees
And the waiting scene and
the Sunday dream
They're all waiting here for me
Deli markets with their
flower stands
And pretty girls and the
burning men
Hanging out on the hooks next to
the window displays
And I took out my tongue twice
removed from my face
Across a bridge and across
the mountains
Threw a nickel in a fountain
To save my soul from all these
troubled times
And all the drugs that
I don't have the guts to
take to soothe my mind
So I'm always sober
Always aching
always heading towards
Mass suicide occult figurines
And wasted gas-station attendants
Attending to their jobs
And a nice drive in the country
Finds a nice cliff to drop off
Oh when this life just
gets so grating
All the grittiness of life
But don't take those pills
your boyfriend gave you
You're too wonderful to die
And the last one tore a picture
From the pornographic page
And all the pleasure
points attacking
All the looks of love were staged
And it's a lie that
you've been given
That just hurts you every day
So why should I lie here naked
When it's just too far away
From anything we could call loving
Any love worth living for
So I'll sleep out in the gutter
You can sleep here on the floor
And when I wake up in the morning
I forgot to lock the door
Because with a match that's mean
and some gasoline
You won't see me anymore
