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
Neutral Milk Hotel
This song is about Jeff’s experience with a ghost supposedly living in his home, that, like many songs on this album, ended up becoming a reference to Anne Frank.
As with several other songs on In the Aeroplane over the Sea, “Ghost” blends seamlessly into the following track, “[untitled]”. The song...
[Verse 1]
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 til 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
[Chorus]
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
Deee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee
Deee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee
Deee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee
Deee-dee-dee-deee
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
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
Deee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee
Deee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee
Deee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee
Deee-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee
Ghost was written by Jeff Mangum.
Ghost was produced by Robert Schneider.
Neutral Milk Hotel released Ghost on Tue Feb 10 1998.