Neutral Milk Hotel Lyrics

    ------ About the song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

Mr. Bob Lang,
Seeing the words "Love, Dad" written towards someone other than
me for the first time and in the context of your letter hit me pretty hard. I know you'll probably never read this as your letter was 2 years ago, but I just want to say I cried for you and your son. I feel for you.
Beautiful song.

    ------ About the song Oh Comely performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

This song first made me cry. It is so beautiful. I know this might sound way out there for some people, but I heard a radio interview a couple years ago with Neutral Milk Hotel, in which they discussed the meaning of Oh Comely as being inspired by the life and death of Anne Frank.

    ------ About the song Holland, 1945 performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

I discovered this song (and this album) just a few days ago. And listening to it is all I've done in these days, one time after another, hundreds of times. It's not just that I like this music. It's that it owns me.

    ------ About the song The King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1 performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

i think this song is just saying no matter how bad you think your life is, theres always that one person who you knew would always be there. Jeff Mangum is just so deep. like the lyrics are about someone who's life is nothing special and the whole time their parents fight and think of death, they are in the other room falling more in love with someone. Jeff Mangum is brilliant and deep...GREAT SONG

    ------ About the song Oh Comely performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

This song is magnificent. I don't think you have to understand the lyrics; simply appreciate them for what they are. Analysing most songs is pointless, especially this track. It is much easier to simply love it for what it is - a great track with high emotion from a very underrated, underappreciated band.

    ------ About the song Two-Headed Boy performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

is not referring necessarily to some sort of 'freak' as certain posters here have written, although that connotation of being outcast may have been intentional on the part of jeff writing the lyrics, but i think it's more in reference to the other lines like "i am listening to hear where you are" and "catching signals that sound in the dark" where he implies some sort of vicarious experience from the first person to her subject of interest, the two-headed boy, whose second head is actually her head. magnum has said that some of his work has been "inspired" by anne frank, so that's definitely not to say that it's concretely based off of and written about her stories, but that he simply got ideas from it and more likely that it influenced or was influenced by the dreams he said he had been having about a jewish family in europe during the holocaust. from this song, it sounds like something he got from his dreams was that the boy ends up dying in the snow somewhere, and the girl gets gassed "choking with her hands across her face", or else has some sort of respiratory disease. frank avoided being gassed by luck of just having turned 15 a bit before arriving at the camp, as well as everyone else she had been hiding with in holland being exempt, but she did die of typhus, one of the symptoms of typhus being severe coughing. wikipedia yo.

    ------ About the song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

Dude I totally agree with you but its not because they drifted apart, its because she died. Sex was more than just sex, they made love. They shared beauty in their most vulnerable state. They gave themselves body and soul to eachother. She was his heart, he sadly lost her. I'm in love with this song and what it represents. Either way whatever it represnts, it still means love. The more I listen to it, I'm falling more in love with my GooBer<3 I'm so fuckin burnt, in the craziest state of mind but I'm so much higher when I'm with her. No matter what's wrong with me she loves me. I'm just a dirt bag and she's a princess. Her parents hate me and she doesn't care. I swear myself to her forever and always.

    ------ About the song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

To the person below:

You do realize that half the songs on this album are about sex, right? You can't really spout critique at "the artists on the radio today" while listening to NMH. Semen stains the mountaintops?

    ------ About the song Oh Comely performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

It seems to me that this is in a way the christian god talking to a man who indulges in strippers and prostitutes and completely negates the beauty of physical contact, and he is being addressed as "oh comely" because he is coming to the gates of heaven and the lord sent him back telling him to fix his mistakes....just another weird interpretation :D love this song either way

    ------ About the song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea performed by Neutral Milk Hotel

This song whispers about love for someone, and since the album "ITAOTS" is a concept album using Anne Frank's diary, it is about love of a lost girl. It's not about sex, for once. Not every song needs to be about sex, unlike what the artists on the radio today believe.

Just listen and close your eyes and let the song take you above the trees.