A Baby for Pree by Neutral Milk Hotel
A Baby for Pree by Neutral Milk Hotel

A Baby for Pree

Neutral Milk Hotel * Track #4 On On Avery Island

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A Baby for Pree by Neutral Milk Hotel

Release Date
Tue Mar 26 1996
Performed by
Neutral Milk Hotel
Produced by
Robert Schneider
Writed by
Jeff Mangum
About

“A Baby For Pree”, sometimes mistitled as “A Baby For Free”, is the 4th track from Neutral Milk Hotel’s debut album, On Avery Island.

This song was written for Jeff Mangum’s friend, called Pree, when she gave birth to her first child, and as such centers around a theme of pregnancy throughout.

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A Baby for Pree Lyrics

[Verse]
Blistering Pree, all smiling and swollen
Makes babies to breathe
With their hearts hanging open all over the sheets
As soft as beets in some brown dresser drawer
And with bees in her breath and the rest of her ringing
They'll sting through her chest with a force hard and beating
Till wonderfully wet she will get
Until she's soaked inside her clothes
And there is no sorry to be sorry for
For a roll around the floor some afternoon so sound and soft
It made her swallow all her sweat
With every bit of breath she coughs
And when the day it came to pour all her babies
All across the bathroom floor
She will be swimming in them all forever more

A Baby for Pree Q&A

Who wrote A Baby for Pree's ?

A Baby for Pree was written by Jeff Mangum.

Who produced A Baby for Pree's ?

A Baby for Pree was produced by Robert Schneider.

When did Neutral Milk Hotel release A Baby for Pree?

Neutral Milk Hotel released A Baby for Pree on Tue Mar 26 1996.

What did Neutral Milk Hotel say about "A Baby for Pree"?

From an interview in Ptolemaic Terrascope, September 1996:

There are for example songs that sound identical but which somehow remain distinct and independent, like an artist working on the same portrait first in pastels and then in oils.

“A Baby For Pree” and “Where You’ll Find Me Now” are twins a...

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