o--------------------------------------o | "Oh Sister" | | unreleased | | by JEFF MANGUM | o--------------------------------------o G 320003 Em 022000 C 332010 D xx0232 C* 030003 to 032003 ---------------------------------------- G ---------------------------------------- G Oh sister, don't be afraid of me I won't be nailing you down in the nursery C Just like the rest of them did with those watery Wandering fingers that slipped that were supposed to be G C* G Glorious and fine Oh sister, won't you believe in me I only wanted to be hard on the family C Here with you now in this silly infirmary Your mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany G C* G All of the time Oh sister, sweet brown and beulahry Milk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry C There in the parlor all naked in front of me Watching the lights from the cracks making archery G C* G Animal designs ---------------------------------------- Em Rose Wallace Goldeline just C Moves her mouth over anything that's G D Fleshy free and flowering like oranges out in the open Em But don't you waste your sins again C You don't need you or won't fuck your friends G D And you, you're American, self important boiling over Em To prove that she must still exist C She moves herself about her fist G D And won't ever never give a shit about all those words you're wasting Em Again some pretty C Bright and bubbly G D Wondrous dream you'd like to kill and cling and claim her as your Em Own, but don't you worry C All those dainty and dirty G D G Emotions just go away and fade out on their own ---------------------------------------- G Sister, now that you're leaving Our fingers will falter, our lungs will be leaking C All over each other and without even speaking We'll know that it's over and smiling or greeting G C* G Whatever comes next And oh sister, you're getting married With some angry twister that you'll have to carry home C Drunk every evening from the cemetery And if he makes it back half alive you can bury him G C* G Under your sheets And oh sister, now that you're grieving I can not imagine there is any meaning C Forgetting you ever could once had the feeling that made you keep on And pretend you were breathing G C* G Of all of this world D And in an age of empty rings C I don't want to feel a thing G C* G I don't even want to know D Rose Wallace Goldeline C Don't you ever die on me G G Don't you own the way you go