This is the one song I play for friends when they've never heard of neutral milk and I want to get them as hooked as i am. If they don't get it, that's when i know that we should probably stop being friends.
"ok this one's called Sailing Through and it's uhmm...not really about sex...I know it sounds like it's about sex... it's just...about getting inside of people but not through...that way really." [guitar] "because I usually just, fuck stuff up anyway." "you do that." "it does for me." "Sailing through your disease and you Your disease and you Your body like a basket Shivering in static From displays of angry tears All those years you were alive inside the closet But nobody in it there but me Now you are coming Your life is off running You’re tearing yourself apart at the seams And you are a liar, You are a liar You are a liar, And you are a lie You are a liar, You are a liaaaaaaaar And you are a lie Now I’m off sailing Sickness inhaling Every drop of blood you could bleed The world is all coming They’re coming in millions Millions of people too sick to believe And I really wanted To be in your body To be in your body To be inside you I really wanted To be in your body Awaiting your sickness A shield around you And you are a liar, You are a liar You are a liar, And you are a lie You are a liar, You are a liar You are a liar, And you are a lie Wrapped up in masters They cover you in plasters They spit in your mouth and then say “I love you” Is this supposed to save us Is this supposed to break us Oh into the [living (?)] into the toilet [in are you (?)] And I really wanted I wanted to be in your body But I can only be in your body but I can only be up inside of you And I really wanted, To be in your body Into the toilet with our faces removed And you are a liar, You are a liar You are a liar, and you are a lie You are a liar, You are a liar You are a liar, you are a lie You are a liar, you are a liar You are a liar and you are a LIEEEEEEEE EE EE EEE EE E" [chuckle] "so yeah I told you" [chuckle again]
colorful winds dripping and bleeding and bleeding and bleeding into her mouth until she touched me my delicate hand that turned into flower pedals into fire into dust into wind into me through you and i fill with all that we cant see all that we need be all that you could sell and that i felt reached and slipped and through the rotten board that day i sank and merged into..
Sailing through, your disease, and you, your disease and you, your body like a basket, shivering in static, for all displays of angry tears, all those years, you were alive inside the closet with nobody in it, there but me, but now your all coming your life is off running, your tearing yourself apart at the seems you are a liar you are a liar you are a lire and you are a lie now im off sailing, sickness inhaling, every drop of blood you could bleed, the world is all coming, their coming in millions, millions of people to sick to believe, And i really wanted to be in your body to be in your body, to be inside you , I really wanted to be in your body awaiting your sickness, a shield around you, but you are a liar you are a liar you ar a liar and you are a lie Wrapped up in masters, they cover you in plasters they spit in your mouth and then say i love you , is this suppose to save us is this suppose to break us a way to believe into the toilet in our youth, and i really wanted to be in your body if i could only be in your body if i could only be up inside you and i really wanted to be in your body into the toilet with our faces removed, you are a liar, you are a lie
He wouldnt play it at thw one i went to lol. I yelled out for him to play sailing through but nope. Its top 5 for me because its the first song i ever listened to. Ha
I've been obsessed with this song since I first heard it at 13 years old. It's been something I've shown countless others who haven't appreciated it and have struggled to explain or understand my own connection to. It's only now, nearly a decade later that I've realized- I like this song because I'm trans. The lyrics perfectly capture what it's like to live as a gender you're not. And I feel so stupid for not have realizing it earlier.
Hi, also enjoyed this song for many years and I came to the realisation I was trans about a year ago. This song holds such a special place for me. It took reading your comment to make me realise it is THE trans angst song for me. It's the best expression of self-doubt and gender envy I've ever heard. This is like piping my own pre-realisation subconscious through a loudspeaker. "It's not really about sex, even though it sounds like it's about sex" The pain in the ending is so relatable and cathartic, and hearing it makes me so happy I've moved on from that uncertainty and started transitioning!
Huh, I never said it didn't have much merit. It's quite simple; *I* *think* the screaming at the end is unpleasant to listen to. I don't like the sound of what to my ears sounds like nipple torture. If you want to get philosophical with someone, I'm really not your guy.
This is the worst piece of shit my ears have ever been subject to. I literally could not close my mouth for the last minute and a half of this. I thought I might accidentally swallow my tongue.
