Lyrics for Love You More Than Life as interpreted by mrtrout

Love You More Than Life Lyrics
Let the world collapse and die
It's sinking deeper in your eyes
And I will sing a sweet surprise for no one

Let the world collapse and swallow
All the love she'll hold tomorrow
And I will shield and I will follow no one

And I'm all screwed up
But I feel all right
Sinking deeper all the time
Inside a hole deep in my mind
But I love you, I love you
More than life

Let the world collapse and fold
It gave me no, nothing at all
And I will shield and I will fall for no one

Let it sink and let it shudder
All the words that I will mutter
In hopes your love will soon discover no one

And I'm all screwed up
But I feel all right
Sinking deeper all the time
Inside a hole deep in my mind
But I love you, I love you
Oh, I love you, yes, I love you
Oh, I love you
More than life

More than life
More than life
More than life

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motnaibaf
04-29-2003

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I like to hump little Greek boys

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NMHMAN
05-01-2003

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motnaibaf, geez buddy calm your emotions

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trajikclown
06-10-2003

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this is a beautiful song... haha i can relate to this song. its like... you used to be so inlove but they stoped loving you and went out WITH YOUR BEST FRIEND.... haha and you just want everyone he touches to die...

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RainSong
12-14-2004

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It's I will sing a "sweet" surprise

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float on OK?
01-03-2005

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this is one of the only neutral milk hotel song that has lyrics you can understand lol

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float on OK?
01-03-2005

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And I'm all screwed up
But I feel all right
Sinking deeper all the time
Inside a hole deep in my mind
But I love you, I love you…
More than life.

those lines are so beautiful, it reminds me of well..me and all the stuff going on in my life right now.

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cruel to be kind
03-16-2005

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i love this song it is beautiful i can't believe i just typed that haha i'm a lOser!

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slowdownidiot
04-15-2005

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the great thing about neutral milk hotel is that even in such a straightforward song Jeff still manages such an original and poignant line as "Love you more than life." It seems so obvious when you hear it, but when have you ever heard anybody else say that? It's original yet universal, and that's why it's amazing.

and that's what I think....

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words&tricks
12-08-2006

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I used to take this as the cliche sort of line, the title I mean, just another expression of the seemingly boundless capacity of one's love. However, I think the true meaning of this song is actually more complex than that for which most people give it credit.
Think of the implications of loving a person more than loving life. To not love life creates a vacuum like existence, with no cares or thoughts or wants or needs. It is like a numb existence that is hardly an existence at all. This kind of life is depicted throughout all of the narrator's lyrics about indifference as to the state of the world and mental "sinking". Because he lives this life, he will never be with whomever he loves, and will never be able to do anything but profess the fact that he loves her more than life. It's like a coma, sort of, where one is indifferent to the coma itself but cannot voice such indifference, although it is truth.

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vintagerocket
04-16-2007

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maybe it's just my audio file, but does anyone else hear that extremely high-pitched "mosquito" noise throughout the song? It's most prominent at the beginning and makes it literally hurt to listen to. Which is a goshdurn shame.

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kyleeburns
08-19-2007

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yeah i get that too. i think it's just because it's recorded on a tape or something.

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ggaby
09-23-2007

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Well, i haven't been able to stop listening to this for the past two days ^-^ haha, its lovely. i sort of take it as, the person hes singing to he couldnt take if they fell in love with someone else, cos he says "In hopes your love will soon discover no one" ... as in he hopes they wont ever love anyone else- "All the love she'll hold tomorrow"..... great love song.
anyway i really think this is one of the sweetest (in an unconventional way) songs ive ever heard. brilliant.

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music1994
03-05-2008

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i've always seen this as the man almost singing a love song to heroin. Too me it sums up the life of a junky, essentially everything else in your life becomes soo worthless and the only meaning and importance in your life anymore is the heroin itself.

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5108h4n
06-10-2008

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it's like you'll never be with the one you love because the darkness of life is sucking you into its black hole and you can't get out of it.

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ringoichiban
08-18-2009

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This is a very crippling love in my mind. One of those loves that just takes over everything. Its really sad, kinda brings a tear to my eye

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