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Neutral Milk Hotel – Engine (1998) | Track profile | Dork

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Neutral Milk Hotel
Ferris Wheel on Fire
Engine

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Neutral Milk Hotel

Engine

Release date: 13th October 1998

From Ferris Wheel on Fire

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"Engine" is a track by Neutral Milk Hotel, from the album Ferris Wheel on Fire, released 13th October 1998. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Neutral Milk Hotel.

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Lyrics

Engine

[Verse 1]

For I am an engine

And I'm rolling on

Through endless revisions to state what I mean

For sweetness alone who flew out through the window

And landed back home in a garden of green

[Verse 2]

You're riding alone in the back of a steamer

And steaming yourself in the warm shower spray

And water rolls on off the round captain's belly

Who's talking to tigers from his cafeteria tray

[Verse 3]

And sweet babies cry for the cool taste of milking

That milky delight that invited us all

And if there's a taste in this life more inviting

Then wake up your windows and watch as those sweet babies crawl

Away

Mmmm, mmmm

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Track details

From Ferris Wheel on Fire

1998

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Album

Ferris Wheel on Fire

Neutral Milk Hotel

12th December 2011

Release year

1998

1Oh Sister (1995)
3:37
2Ferris Wheel on Fire (1993)
3:47
3Home (1992)
2:04
4April 8th (1992)

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Writer: Jeff Mangum
Producer: Robert Schneider