Communist Daughter

Jeff Mangum

Sweet communist
The communist daughter
Standing on the seaweed water
Semen stains the mountaintops
Semen stains the mountaintops

With cocoa leaves along the border
Sweetness sings from every corner
Cars careening from the clouds
The bridges burst and twist around

And wanting something warm and moving
Bends towards herself the soothing
Proves that she must still exist
She moves herself about her fist

Sweet communist
The communist daughter
Standing on the seaweed water
Semen stains the mountaintops
Semen stains the mountaintops


(Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, 1998)