"My Dreamgirl (Don't Exist)" lyrics - NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL

[Beauty Version]

My dream
My dream girl don't exist
At the age of 5 she slit her wrists
She didn't know that I'd be hanging around
So her parents buried her in the ground
My dream girl don't exist
She's working at a McDonald's in Madison Wisconsin
She could have been cool but she let the system get to her
She forgot all about art and just made hamburgers
My dream girl don't exist
They're sitting around watching TV
They're out stuffing- shit

[Newer Live Version]

My dream girl don't exist
And at the age of five she slit her wrists
She didn't know that I'd be hanging around
So her parents buried her in the ground
This day I can still hear the sound
Of a life in outer space

My dream girl don't exist
It just you and I and this TV
And this illness seems to feel so strange
Like a henchman that's about to hang
The moon, up like a ball and chain

And the weight is waiting off
Feel the world so real and strung

My dream girl don't exist
Just a photograph in a history book
And I believe she had a voice and name
Three children on the coast of Maine
Her life was in a hurricane
Of love and real embrace

My dream girl don't exist
And at the age of five she slit her wrists
She didn't know that I'd be hanging around
So one day she took a stroll to town
And walked in front of a Greyhound
Bound for New York central state

And the weight is waiting off
And the weight is waiting off
Fell the world so real and strung
She know, and knows she knows
She'll never be afraid