Jeff Mangum - Oh Sister lyrics

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Oh sister, don't be afraid of me <br />

I won't be nailing you down in the nursery <br />

Just like the rest of them did <br />

With those watery, wandering fingers that slipped <br />

<br />

That were supposed to be glorious and fine <br />

Oh sister, won't you believe in me <br />

I only wanted to be hard on your family <br />

Here with you now in the zillionth infirmary <br />

A mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany <br />

All of the time <br />

And oh sister <br />

Sweet brown and comely <br />

I will be be milking with you making fun of me <br />

Now that my moods are not what the used to be <br />

there is but no one alive laying next to me <br />

for such a long time <br />

Oh sister, sweet brown and beulahry <br />

milk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry <br />

there in the parlor all naked in front of me <br />

<br />

Watching the lights from the cracks making archery animal designs <br />

Rose Wallace Goldeline just moves her mouth over anything <br />

Fleshy free and flowering with oranges out in the open <br />

But don't you waste your sins again <br />

She don't need you <br />

or won't fuck your friends <br />

And you, you're American, so important boiling over <br />

To prove that she must still exist <br />

she moves herself about her fist <br />

and never ever ever give a shit <br />

about all those words you're wasting again <br />

Some pretty bright and bubbly wondrous dream <br />

You'd like to kill and claim <br />

And claim her as your own <br />

But don't you worry <br />

<br />

All those dainty and dirty emotions just go away and fade out on their own <br />

Sister, now that we're grieving <br />

Our fingers will falter <br />

Our lungs will be leaking <br />

All over each other and without even speaking <br />

We'll know that it's over and smiling or greeting <br />

Whatever comes next <br />

And oh sister <br />

You're getting married with some angry twister <br />

<br />

That you'll have to carry home drunk every evening from the cemetery <br />

And if he makes it back half alive you can bury him <br />

Under your sheets <br />

And oh sister <br />

now that we're leaving <br />

I can not imagine there is any meaning <br />

forgetting you ever could once had the feeling that made you keep on <br />

<br />

And pretend you were breathing of all of this world <br />

In an age of empty rings <br />

I don't want to feel the thing <br />

I don't even want to know <br />

and Rose Wallace Goldeline <br />

don't you ever die on me <br />

all the way it goes and flows