Neutral Milk Hotel (possible triggers)

[Sick Puppy]

I had to take a break from my non-posting to let you guys know about this band. I have got their album "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" and I have honestly never heard something so amazing. The music is great and the lyrics flow perfectly. I'd post every single song here but it would take up too much space! I'll just link to the lyrics page, and post the relevant ones here.

https://neutralmilkhotel.net/lyrics.html

There are some songs on this album that deal with incest. It's a very gentle take on it, the music is fairly upbeat and the message isn't neccesarily negative on the surface, but it has sort of a melancholy, painful feel to it, somehow.

The King of Carrot Flowers, Part 1

When you were young
You were the king of carrot flowers
And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees
In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet

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

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

And your mom would sink until she was no longer speaking
And dad would dream of all the different ways to die
Each one a little more than he could dare to try

Two-Headed Boy, Part Two

Daddy please hear this song that I sing
In your heart there's a spark that just screams
For a lover to bring a child to your chest that could lay as you sleep
And love all you have left like your boy used to be
Long ago wrapped in sheets warm and wet

Blister please with those wings in your spine
Love to be with a brother of mine
How he'd love to find your tongue in his teeth
In a struggle to find secret songs that you keep wrapped in boxes so tight
Sounding only at night as you sleep

In my dreams you're alive and you're crying
As your mouth moves in mine soft and sweet
Rings of flowers round your eyes and I love you
For the rest of your life in your ears, dear

Brother see we are one in the same
And you left with your head filled with flames
And you watched as your brains fell out through your teeth
Push the pieces in place
Make your smile sweet to see
Don't you take this away
I'm still wanting my face on your cheek

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 she is all you could need
She will feed you tomatoes and radio wires
And retire to sheets safe and clean
But don't hate her when she gets up to leave

 

[outis]

Josh,

Glad to see you post. Hope to see more.

There'a a lot in those lyrics. Thanks for the link to the band's site. The page that talks about a new release hasn't been updated since December, so I hope that release is not just a rumor.

Thanks,

Joe

 

[ecb]

Hey Josh,

Good to see you are still around and (apparently) doing alright.

Thanks for the musical heads up. I checked out Boysetsfire largely at your reccomendation and it sounds pretty good. I anticipate a timely purchase of it once I get some cash.

Good to hear from you, take it easy.

Eric

 

[six string samurai]

Hey!!

This is a old post but I love NMH

"Little Birds" is such a good song but its too bad it never got reecorded in a studio

Here is the lyrics...

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Little birds born without a mother or a father
I can watch their bodies forming in the running water
Now there is another in the middle of my mouth
A hundred altogether within me now
Little bird, little bird come into my body

Mother, they're within me every moment I'm awaking
Bodies multiplying until they finally overtake me
Open up my mouth but all you'll ever hear is singing
Put you hand within me and you'll know what I'm feeling
I just want to swallow up and promise to protect them

Daddy come to touch me but he seen his hands are shaking
Look into my eyes and he could see their bodies breaking
Push me to the floor and in his hands I started beating
"I don't want to hear it anymore", he kept repeating
Do you really want the burning hell that we believe in?

Did you know the burning hell it took your baby brother?
Did you see how far he fell and how he made us suffer?
Another boy in town at night he took him for his lover
And deep in sin they held each other
So I took a hammer and nearly beat his little brains in
Knowing God in heaven could have, never could forgive him
So I took a hammer and I nearly beat his brains in

Little boy born without a father or a mother
Taken to the river and then pushed into the water
And the priests are singing that the hell is getting hotter
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him
From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, the only one to save him
From the thing he loves the most but we know will betray him

And here beneath the water I can see
How the lights distort so strange
And I think this is how I would like to leave my body
And start again