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

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Neutral Milk Hotel
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Ghost

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Neutral Milk Hotel

Ghost

Release date: 20th February 1998

From In the Aeroplane Over the SeaTrack 9

4:09

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"Ghost" is a track by Neutral Milk Hotel, from the album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, released 20th February 1998. The track is 4:09 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Neutral Milk Hotel.

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Neutral Milk Hotel

Neutral Milk Hotel

Lyrics

Ghost

Ghost, ghost, I know you live within me, feel as you fly
In thunderclouds above the city, into one that I
Love with all that was left within me until we tore in two
Now wings and rings and there's so many waiting here for you

And she was born in a bottle-rocket in 1929
With wings that ringed around a socket right between her spine
All drenched in milk and holy water pouring from the sky
I know that she will live forever, she won't ever die
And she goes, and now she knows she'll never be afraid 
To watch the morning paper blow into a hole where no one can escape
Dee, dee dee dee dee dee
Dee, dee dee dee dee dee
Dee, dee dee dee dee dee
Dee, dee dee dee

And one day in New York City, baby, a girl fell from the sky
From the top of a burning apartment building, 14 stories high
And when her spirit left her body, how it split the sun
I know that she will live forever, all goes on and on and on
And she goes, and now she knows she'll never be afraid
To watch the morning paper blow into a hole where no one can escape
Dee, dee dee dee dee dee
Dee, dee dee dee dee dee
Dee, dee dee dee dee dee
Dee, dee dee dee

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Track details

From In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

4:091998

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Album

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Neutral Milk Hotel

20th February 1998

Track number

9

Release year

1998

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3:06
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Writer: Jeff Mangum
Producer: Robert Schneider
Bass: Robert Schneider
Drums: Jeremy Barnes
Guitar: Jeff Mangum
Vocals: Jeff Mangum
Bagpipes: Michelle Anderson
Horns: Scott Spillane
Horns Arranger: Robert Schneider, Scott Spillane
Musical Saw: Julian Koster
Saxophone: Laura Carter, Marisa Bissinger
Trombone: Rick Benjamin