"Nellie's Not There" lyrics
Nellie stands up from a wooden chair
Her brain goes fuzzy and her face goes fair
She sets into motion
Pretending she knows
The way out of here
The voice is coming from inside the house
But no one told her it would get so loud
In motion emotions
She's holding out hope
She can tamp it down
She's cooler than a [?]
She likes good music and the right TV
Who needs enemies with thoughts like these?
No, Nellie's not there at all, at all
She is walking on a tooth and string
Above a canyon full of sharp-edged things
But how she's dancing makes you think she's walking on air
It's the trick of the fall, the fall, the fall
Nellie's sitting on a south-bound train
She adds her totals from the day away
Just math in a notebook
She hides in a cabin and
By the sink
She's [?] been wishing she could find that gleam
That made her glorious at seventeen
What would she like, then?
Who would she try and appease?
She's cooler than a [?]
She likes good music and the right TV
Who needs enemies with thoughts like these?
No, Nellie's not there at all, at all
She is walking on a tooth and string
Above a canyon full of sharp-edged things
But how she's dancing makes you think she's walking on air
It's the trick of the fall, the fall, the fall
She's falling, she's falling
She's walking on air
She's falling, she's falling
She's not even there
Her brain goes fuzzy and her face goes fair
She sets into motion
Pretending she knows
The way out of here
The voice is coming from inside the house
But no one told her it would get so loud
In motion emotions
She's holding out hope
She can tamp it down
She's cooler than a [?]
She likes good music and the right TV
Who needs enemies with thoughts like these?
No, Nellie's not there at all, at all
She is walking on a tooth and string
Above a canyon full of sharp-edged things
But how she's dancing makes you think she's walking on air
It's the trick of the fall, the fall, the fall
Nellie's sitting on a south-bound train
She adds her totals from the day away
Just math in a notebook
She hides in a cabin and
By the sink
She's [?] been wishing she could find that gleam
That made her glorious at seventeen
What would she like, then?
Who would she try and appease?
She's cooler than a [?]
She likes good music and the right TV
Who needs enemies with thoughts like these?
No, Nellie's not there at all, at all
She is walking on a tooth and string
Above a canyon full of sharp-edged things
But how she's dancing makes you think she's walking on air
It's the trick of the fall, the fall, the fall
She's falling, she's falling
She's walking on air
She's falling, she's falling
She's not even there
