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Neutral Milk Hotel – Sailing Through (1992) | Track profile | Dork

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Neutral Milk Hotel

Sailing Through

Release date: 1992

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About This Track

"Sailing Through" is a track by Neutral Milk Hotel, from the album Beauty, released 1992. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Neutral Milk Hotel.

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Lyrics

Sailing Through

[Verse 1]

Sailing through

Your disease and you

Your disease and you

Your body like a basket

Shivering in static

For a display of angry tears

All those years you were alive inside the closet

Nobody in it there but me

But now you are coming

Your life is off running

You're tearing yourself apart at the seams

[Chorus]

But you are a liar

You are a liar

You are a liar and you are a lie

You are a liar

You are a liar

You are a liar and you are a lie

[Verse 2]

Now I'm off sailing

Sickness inhaling

Every drop of blood you could bleed

The world is all coming

They're coming in millions

Billions of people too sick to believe

And I really wanted to be in your body

To be in your body

To be inside you

I really wanted to be in your body

Awaiting your sickness

A shield around you

[Chorus]

But you are a liar

You are a liar

You are a liar and you are a lie

You are a liar

You are a liar

You are a liar and you are a lie

[Verse 3]

Wrapped up in masters

They cover you in plasters

They spit in your mouth and then say "I love you"

Is this supposed to save us?

Is this supposed to break us?

All we believe into the toilet in our youth

And I really wanted

I wanted to be in your body

If I could only be in your body

If I could only be up inside of you

I really wanted to be in your body

Into the toilet with our faces removed

[Chorus]

And you are a liar

You are a liar

You are a liar and you are a lie

You are a liar

You are a liar

You are a liar and you are a lie

[Coda]

You are a liar

You are a liar

You are a liar and you are a lie

You are a liar

You are a liar

You are a liar and you are a lie

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Track details

From Beauty

1992

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Album

Neutral Milk Hotel

Release year

1992

—Aunt Eggma Blowtorch
—Bucket
—Conversation With Robert Schneider (Will Cullen Hart)
—Noisy Racket
—Sailing Through
—Wishful Eyes
—Circle of Friends

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Neutral Milk Hotel have announced a ‘The Collected Works’ box set

Neutral Milk Hotel have announced a ‘The Collected Works’ box set

The limited edition box set was initially self-released by Jeff Mangum under Neutral Milk Hotel Records in 2011, and this will be its first digital release.

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Writer: Jeff Mangum
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