• Song:

    Holland 1945

  • Artist:

    Kevin Devine

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This is Kevin Devine's cover of Neutral Milk Hotel's Holland 1945, as played on his live
"Live At Austin City Limits Music Festival 2007"

Intro: C

Muted strumming during "One... Two..."

C (x32010@1)               GThe (320003@1)only girl I've ever loved
C (x32010@1)          GWas (320003@1)born with roses in her eyes
C (x32010@1)	   GBut (320003@1)then they buried her alive
	    D (xx0232@1)      COne (x32010@1)evening 1945
	      D (xx0232@1)    GWith (320003@1)just her sister at her side
         D (xx0232@1)   CAnd (x32010@1)only weeks before the guns
             D (xx0232@1) 	    GAll (320003@1)came and rained on everyone
            D (xx0232@1)   CNow (x32010@1)she's a little boy in Spain
           D (xx0232@1)    GPlaying (320003@1)pianos filled with flames
         D (xx0232@1)   		  COn (x32010@1)empty rings around the sun
            D (xx0232@1)     GAll (320003@1)sing to say my dream has come


                C (x32010@1)   GBut (320003@1)now we must pick up every piece
       C (x32010@1)            GOf (320003@1)the life we used to love
        C (x32010@1) GJust (320003@1)to keep ourselves
            C (x32010@1)    DAt (xx0232@1)least enough to carry on

Same as Verse 1:
And now we ride the circus wheel
With your dark brother wrapped in white
Says it was good to be alive
But now he rides a comet's flame
And won't be coming back again
The Earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are
He didn't mean to make you cry
With sparks that ring and bullets fly
On empty rings around your heart
The world just screams and falls apart

                C (x32010@1)   GBut (320003@1)now we must pick up every piece
       C (x32010@1)            GOf (320003@1)the life we used to love
        C (x32010@1) GJust (320003@1)to keep ourselves
            C (x32010@1)    DAt (xx0232@1)least enough to carry on

		    C (x32010@1)    GAnd (320003@1)here's where your mother sleeps
		C (x32010@1)G (320003@1)DAnd (xx0232@1)here is the room where your brothers were born
       C (x32010@1)GIndentions (320003@1)in the sheets
			C (x32010@1)G (320003@1)name="chord_xx0232@1">D
Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
            C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)  C (x32010@1)   GAnd (320003@1)it's so sad to see the world agree
 			     C (x32010@1)    DThat (xx0232@1)they'd rather see their faces fill with flies
	     C (x32010@1)        D (xx0232@1)      GAll (320003@1)when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes

Play C, G repeating until the end

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