Oh Comely Chords & Tabs
by Neutral Milk Hotel
[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Pattern 1:
BPM: 119
Denominator: 8
Triplet: Yes
Measures: [3, 202, 202, 1, 202, 101, 1, 202, 101]
[Intro]
E E E E x2
[Verse 1]
E C
Oh comely
D E
I will be with you when you lose your breath
C D E
Chasing the only meaningful memory you thought you had left
C
With some pretty bright and bubbly terrible scene
D E
That was doing her thing on your chest
C
But oh comely
G
It isn't as pretty as you'd like to guess
In your memory you're drunk on your awe to me
C E
It doesn't mean anything at all
[Verse 2]
E C
Oh comely
D E
All of your friends are letting you blow
C
Bristling and ugly
D E
Bursting with fruits falling out from the holes
C
Of some pretty bright and bubbly friend
D E
You could need to say comforting things in your ear
C
But oh comely
G
There isn't such one friend that you could find here
Standing next to me
Only my enemy
C
I'll crush him with everything I own
E
say what you want to say
G
and hang for your hollow ways moving your mouth
E C DGDGDGDE
to pull out all your miracles aimed for me
[Verse 3]
E
Your father made fetuses
With flesh licking ladies
C
While you and your mother
D
Were asleep in the trailer park
E
Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums
C
The music and medicine you needed for comforting
D E
So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving
C
And pluck all your silly strings
D
And bend all your notes for me
E
Soft silly music is meaningful magical
C
The movements were beautiful
D
All in your ovaries
E
All of them milking with green fleshy flowers
C D
While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines
E
Smelling of semen all under the garden
C D
Was all you were needing when you still believed in me
E
Say what you wanna say and hang for your hollow ways
G E C DGDGDGDE
Moving your mouth to pull out all your miracles aimed for me
[Bridge]
E C
Da da da da da da da
C E
Da da da da da da da
E C
Da da da da da da da
[Verse 4]
E
I know they buried her body with others
C D
Her sister and mother and 500 families
E
And will she remember me 50 years later
C D
I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine
E
Know all your enemies
C
We know who our enemies are
E
Know all your enemies
C
We know who our enemies are
[Bridge]
Am
La la la la la la la la la la la
E
La la la la la la
Am
La la la la la la la la la la la
E
La la la la la la
Am
La la la la la la la la dee dee dee
E
Dee dee dee dee dee dee
[Outro]
Am
Goldaline my dear
We will fold and freeze together
E
Far away from here
There is sun and spring and green forever
Am
But now we move to feel
For ourselves inside some stranger's stomach
E
Place your body here
Am E
Let your skin begin to blend itself with mine
[Coda]
Am
dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee dee la da da
E
da da da da da da
Am
da da da da da da da da da la da da
E Am
da da da da da da da da da
