Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel
Neutral Milk Hotel
“This is a happy song I wrote. It’s a children’s song. I was living in Seattle at the time and my life was pretty much in the shitter…In my depression I wrote this song, was happy for about five minutes then it went back in the shitter.” – Jeff Mangum, 1997
Band member Scott Spillane explained in N...
[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
Engine was written by Jeff Mangum.
Engine was produced by Robert Schneider.
Neutral Milk Hotel released Engine on Tue Oct 13 1998.