The King of Carrot Flowers - Neutral Milk Hotel cover

Live at The El Mocambo, February 15, 2008:

The band "Look! Centaurs..." covers "The King of Carrot Flowers" by Neutral Milk Hotel.

Look! Centaurs is:

Drums - Jordan
Bass - Tim
Guitar - Tsunoyukami

The King of Carrot Flowers lyrics:

When you were young
You were the king of carrot flowers
And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees
In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet

And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder
And dad would throw the garbage all across the floor
As we would lay and learn what each other's bodies were for

And this is the room
One afternoon I knew I could love you
And from above you how I sank into your soul
Into that secret place where no one dares to go

And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking
And dad would dream of all the different ways to die
Each one a little more than he could dare to try

I love you Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ I love you
Yes I do

I love you Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ I love you
Yes I do

And on the lazy days
The dogs dissolve and drain away
The world it goes
And all awaits
The day we are awaiting

Up and over we go through the wave and undertow
I will float until I learn how to swim inside my mother
in a garbage bin until I find myself again again up
and over we go mouths open wide and spitting still
and I will spit until I learn how to speak up thru the
doorway as the sideboards creek with them ever
proclaiming me me ohhhhhhhhhhhh up and over we
go the weight it sits on down and I don't know I will
shout until they know what I mean I mean the
marriage of a dead dog sing and a synthetic flying
machine machine ohhhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhh
ohhhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhh
(okay)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• King
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• Neutral
• Milk
• Hotel
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• Indie

[alivewithlove666]

Nice cover! Your vocals really were flawed, and it really helped distinguish your cover from countless others on youtube, as well as make the whole song sound different without destroying it. Jeff would be proud.

[jordanthecat]

Thanks for the kind words- I'll pass them along to the band. Rod Stewart once observed that to be a successful rock vocalist it was better to have a "distinctive" voice than a "great" voice, or words to that effect.

[Smokeater68]

Man I thought The El Macambo closed? Awesome to see it still standing!! Excellent Bro!

[jordanthecat]

It's survived a few bankruptcies and is still standing, as grungy inside as ever.

[Velourium]

you turned Neutral Milk Hotel into Butt Rock

[RossNW]

terrible vocals

[redhotero]

I dont like it , but good try

[NaziJesus]

>implying jeff is better

[Kodama28]

your vocals aren't distinct, they're just shitty.

[Kodama28]

get a haircut fag

[Neutralmilkinstereo]

Have an open mind, sport.

[Velourium]

Mangum has a raw, unpolished sincerity to his voice, but he has the lungs of a god.

It's not the talent of this singer that bugs me, it's the style in which he attempts it.

[Neutralmilkinstereo]

Hey, velourium, screw you.

I like this cover.

And @RossNW,

Mangum didn't have the best vocals either, but is brilliant.