• Song:

    Holland 1945

  • Artist:

    Neutral Milk Hotel

  • Album:

    1998-04-12: Bottom of t...

C5                        G5
The only girl I've ever loved
C5                        G5
Was born with roses in her eyes
C5                        G5            
But then they buried her alive 
                  D5
One evening 1945
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With just her sister at her side 
D5                              C5                  
And only weeks before the guns 
D5                              G5      
All came and rained on everyone 
D5                              C5
Now she's a little boy in Spain 
D5                              G5
Playing pianos filled with flames
D5                              C5
On empty rings around the sun
D5                              C5
All sing to say my dream has come
C5                              G5
But now we must pick up every piece
C5                        G5            
Of the life we used to love 
C5                  G5            
Just to keep ourselves
C5                        D5
At least enough to carry on
C5                              G5
And now we ride the circus wheel
C5                                    G5
With your dark brother wrapped in white
C5                        G5
Says it was good to be alive
            D5
But now he rides a comet's flame 


C5            D5                  G5
And won't be coming back again
G5                  D5            C5
The Earth looks better from a star
D5                        G5                              
That's right above from where you are 
D5                  C5            
He didn't mean to make you cry 
                  D5                  G5
With sparks that ring and bullets fly 
            D5                  C5
On empty rings around your heart
                  D5                  C5
The world just screams and falls apart 
                  C5                  G5
But now we must pick up every piece
      C5                  G5      
Of the life we used to love
C5                        
Just to keep ourselves
G5            D5
At least enough to carry on


      G5                  C5            G5
And here's where your mother sleeps
      G5                  C5            G5            D5      
And here is the room where your brothers were born
G5            C5      G5      
Indentions in the sheets 
            G5            C5                  G5            D5
Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
C5      G5      C5      G5      
And it's so sad to see the world agree 
            G5                  C5            D5
That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies
G5                  C5            D5                  G5
All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes
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