Engine - Neutral Milk Hotel

A music video I made for the Neutral Milk Hotel song "Engine".
This recording is from a broadcast by XFM in May 1998 in which Jeff Mangum was interviewed and sang four songs solo including this one.
You can download this set here: www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/...
The movie is a 1924 silent film part of the Tribune-American Dream Picture serial. It is part of the Prelinger Archives so it is licensed under the Creative Commons No Rights Reserved. The short film was originally over seven minutes long, but I cut it down to have the same length and fit with specific parts of the song.
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Lyrics
For I am an engine and I'm rolling on
Through endless revisions to state what I mean
For sweetness alone who flew out through the window
And landed back home in a garden of green
You're riding alone in the back of a steamer
And steaming yourself in the warm shower spray
And water rolls on off the round captain's belly
Who's talking to tigers from his cafeteria tray
And sweet babies cry for the cool taste of milking
That milky delight that invited us all
And if there's a taste in this life more inviting
Then wake up your windows and watch as those sweet babies crawl away

[@TheBbqbanana]

I saw them yesterday and they closed with this then thanked the crowd for the amazing journey reminding us that they won't preform again... I almost cried

[@dickbehringer7064]

there's something so soul crushingly sad and hopeless about this

[@AndyTabelz]

i couldn't imagine a NMH video that didn't have footage from like at least 60 years ago. there's something timeless about it!

[@Xerazal]

Friend of mine performed this song at a local place the night before he committed suicide...

[@GoldLibrary]

There is no other band in the world that can create a sound as rich and pure and honest as the music they create. This, in it's most unadulterated form, clean and fresh, is what gives music its true name.

[@seansuperman]

@LetMyInspirationFlow If you need moral support from youtube "likes" then you need to seriously sort out your priorities in life.

[@blakeyswagswag]

I AM A N I N J A

[@Benjamin_Bratten]

Jeff Mangum makes depression worse.

[@brickman409]

This is probably my favorite song by them

[@SpidersUnderSkin]

I don't get them.. at all.

[@shhmellshlikeasshhhh]

Listening to NMH is like being reborn.
Amazing,
Like you figure things out about yourself from one song, that most people can't in a life time,
I think listening NMH is Love.

[@jabbalofsky]

this song makes it all worthwhile

[@officerfriday]

This might be the best pearl jam cover i have ever heard!

[@nugget0022]

Great video :)

[@zololion1066]

such a beautiful song and video

[@irascib1e]

this video is so adorable. i smiled so hard at the end.

[@ZoeSquared21]

Good sir, you have just paired two of my favorite things: Neutral Milk Hotel and silent films. I salute you! (By the way, the clip fits perfectly with the song! Good job!)

[@imgaston]

Thank you so much for uploading this. Thank you.

[@Brudda2daman]

That was adorable.

[@thnafu]

Thank you!!! This is my favourite version