Oh Comely (track)
by Neutral Milk Hotel
Year: 1998
From the album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (track #8)
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Oh Comely appears on the following album(s) by Neutral Milk Hotel:
- In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (track #8) (this album) (1998)
- Neutral Milk Hotel Box Set (track #8) (compilation) (2011)
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I don't know where to start with this song...it evokes tons of emotions.
"But oh comely, It isn't as pretty as you'd like to guess In your memory, you're drunk on your awe to me"
I think this line he is showing the amount of guilt he has built up, he's so overly fixated on this guilt that he fails to recognize the good times as if the good times were one giant lie, even if they weren't.
"There isn't such one friend that you could find here.
Standing next to me,
He's only my enemy
I'll crush him with everything I own."
This once again shows the amount of self hate he has from the guilt he feels, he's basically his own worst enemy in his eyes, he hates the person he sees in the mirror.
"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"
I also love this section, it brings mixed emotions. It's pretty sinister imagining Conjoined twins being eaten, somehow it still makes you feel at peace because they both care about each other so much and the way it sounds and basically they feel at peace going out together so they don't have to go out of this world alone, instead they go out with someone they love, and before they know it the suffering will end and they will be at peace again.
One of my top 10 favorite songs ever. Just a brilliant piece of music, one take, amazing lyrics and a true and raw feel to it. Amazing :)
The masterpiece of the record, i never want it to end
slurpdurp 01/25/2017 02:59 | #184222
Incredible poetic lyrics, and recorded in one take. Jeff Magnum is a mastermind.
GandalfORiley345 05/11/2014 15:23 | #111521
The People that critic this song just for be too long, don´t know about what they´re listening to,
