Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Neutral Milk Hotel
Canonical path: /neutral-milk-hotel/engine
Related lyric paths: 6
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Engine
Read Engine lyrics by Neutral Milk Hotel on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Engine
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For I am an engine
And I'm rolling on
The world is all bending and breaking from me
For sweetness alone who flew out through the window
And landed back home in a garden of green
You're a riding alone in the back of 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
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 the sweet babies crawl
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Neutral Milk Hotel performs "Engine", and this lyric page sits inside the Neutral Milk Hotel catalog on LyroVerse.
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