Song Against Sex Lyrics - On Avery Island - Neutral Milk Hotel

And the first one tore a picture 

Of a dead and hanging man 

Who was kissing foreign fishes 

That flew right out from this hands 

And when I put my arms around him 

I felt the blushing blood run through my cheeks 

And an eeriness surrounded when his tongue began to speak 

And he said...Oh boy you are so pretty 

Enough to wrap tight in rice-paper string. 

And when I finally kissed him the whole world began to ring 

Lost like a bell that's tipping over 

With two cracks along both sides 

And I knew the world was over so I took a look outside 

And watched the fires that were reaching 

Up to the weather vane and the tops of trees 

And the waiting scene and the Sunday dream 

They're all waiting here for me 

Deli markets with their flower stands 

And pretty girls and the burning men 

Hanging out on the hooks next to the window displays 

And I took out my tongue twice removed from my face 

Across a bridge and across the mountains 

Threw a nickel in a fountain 

To save my soul from all these troubled times 

And all the drugs that I don't have the guts to take 

To soothe my mind so I'm always sober 

Always aching, always heading towards 

Mass suicide, occult figurines 

And wasted gas-station attendants 

Attending to their jobs 

And a nice drive in the country 

Finds a nice cliff to drop off 

Oh when this life just gets so grating 

All the grittiness of life 

But don't take those pills your boyfriend gave you 

You're too wonderful to die 

And the last one tore a picture 

From the pornographic page 

When all the pleasure points attacking 

All the looks of love were staged 

And it's a lie that you've been given 

That just hurts you every day 

So why should i lay here naked 

When it's just too far away 

From anything we could call loving 

Any love worth living for 

So I'll sleep out in the gutter 

You can sleep here on the floor 

And when I wake up in the morning 

I won't forget to lock the door 

Because with a match that's mean and some gasoline 

You won't see me anymore