• Song:

    In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

  • Artist:

    Neutral Milk Hotel

  • Album:

    1998-12-31: New Years E...

This is the whole album, taking mainly from the other tabs on this site..  
please rate and comment any possible corrections-- thanks
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King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1  (with thanks to cosmicsoul07)

F, Bb, F, C, Bb x2


F
  When you were young
             C              Bb       F
You were the king of carrot flowers
                          C                    Bb     C
And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees
                          Bb                   F
In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet

 F Bb F C Bb

F                                       C            Bb        F
  And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder
                                     C              Bb      C
And dad would throw the garbage all across the floor
                               Bb                       F
As we would lay and learn what each other's bodies were for

F, Bb, F, C, Bb

F
  And this is the room
         C                   Bb        F
One afternoon I knew I could love you
                         C              Bb    C
And from above you how I sank into your soul
                             Bb              F
Into that secret place where no one dares to go

F, Bb, F, C, Bb

F                                      C          Bb        F
  And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking
                               C                 Bb   C
And dad would dream of all the different ways to die
                            Bb               F
Each one a little more than he could dare to try

F, Bb, F, C, Bbx4
 end on F
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King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 2 & 3
 
 F
I love you Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ I love you
       C
Yes I do

 F
I love you Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ I love you
       C
Yes I do
 
C
And on the lazy days
The dogs dissolve and drain away
The world it goes
And all awaits          F
The day we are awaiting

  F Bb F C x4

 F
Up and over we go through the wave and undertow
                                  C
I will float until I learn how to swim inside my mother
             F                       C               F Bb F C x2
in a garbage bin until I find myself again again

 F
up and over we go mouths open wide and spitting still
                                     C  
and I will spit until I learn how to speak up thru the
                          F
doorway as the sideboards creek with them ever
            C                F Bb F C x2
proclaiming me me ohhhhhhhhhhhh

 F
up and over we go the weight it sits on down and I don't know
                                      C
I will shout until they know what I mean I mean the
                       F
marriage of a dead dog sing and a synthetic flying
 C                        F
machine machine ohhhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhh
    F Bb F C x 4 (somewhere in the oh parts, im not really sure)
ohhhhhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhhhhhhh
(okay)
 end on F

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In the Aeroplane Over the Sea      (thanks to Ben Hargrave)
  
  G Em C D

G                 Em
What a beautiful face
                       C
i have found in this place
                  D
that is circling all around the sun.
G                  Em
What a beautiful dream
                          C
that could flash on the screen
                  D                    G
in a blink of an eye and be gone from me
      Em
soft and sweet
         C                 D                G Em C D
let me hold it close and keep it here with me


 G                   Em
and one day we will die
                    C                      D
and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea
 G                   Em
but for now we are young
                  C
let us lay in the sun
                D                        G
and count every beautiful thing we can see
      Em    
Love to be
        C               D              G   Em C D
in the arms of all i'm keepin here with me

 G              Em                       C       
what a curious life we have found here tonight
                     D        
there is music that sounds from the street
 G                       Em
there are lights in the cloud
                 C
Anne's ghost all around
                        D                          G
hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me
     Em
soft and sweet
        C                  D                G   Em C D
How the notes all bend and reach above the trees

Em                   C
now how i remember you
                                  G
how i would push my fingers through
                                    D
your mouth to make those muscles move
                                       Em
that make your voice so smooth and sweet
                                  C
And now we keep where we don't know
                                  G
All secrets sleep in winter clothes
                             D
with one you loved so long ago
                               Em C G D
now he don't even know his name

 G                 Em
What a beautiful face
                      C
i have found in this place
                  D                   
that is circling all round the sun
 G                     Em
and when we meet on a cloud
                      C
I'll be laughing out loud
                       D          G
I'll be laughing with everyone i see
     Em
Can't believe
     C                 D            G  Em C D  G <-end on
how strange it is to be anything at all

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Two Headed Boy  

G

G          B
Two headed boy
    G           B
All floating in glass
    G          B
The sun it has passed
         C            G
Now it's blacker than black
      C                      D
I can hear as you tap on your jar
     C                           G
I am listening to hear where you are
     C                           G
I am listening to hear where you are

G          B
Two headed boy
G              B
Put on sunday shoes
    G               B        C        G
And dance round the room to accordion keys
         C                         D
With the needle that sings in your heart
         C                         G
Catching signals that sound in the dark
         C                         G
Catching signals that sound in the dark
        D            C           
We will take off our clothes
                       G                   D               C
And they'll be placing fingers through the notches in your spine
                           G                  D             C
And when all is breaking , everything that you could keep inside
                            Am                                  D
now you're eyes aint moving now, they just lay there in their cloud

G          B
Two headed boy
     G           B
With pulleys and weights
   G      B        C              G
Creating a radio played just for two
       C                            D
In the parlor with a moon across her face
    C                            G
And through the music he sweetly displays
       C                        G
Silver speakers that sparkle all day
C            C                        Am                                D   C
Made for his lover who's floating and choking with her hands across her face
           G            D             C
And in the dark we will take off our clothes
                        G                  D               C
And they'll be placing fingers through the notches in your spine
                          G               D               C
And when all is breaking, everything that you could keep inside
                            Am                                  D
now you're eyes ain't moving now, they just lay there in their clouououououd


G          B
Two headed boy
          G         B
There's no reason to grieve
    G              B                  C           G
The world that you need is wrapped in gold silver sleeves
     C                              D
Left beneath Christmas trees in the snow
           C                      G
And I will take you and leave you alone
         C                       G
Watching spirals of white softly flow
          C
Over your eyelids and all you did
                                       D
Will wait until the point when you let go
C                G
Dee dee dee dee de -> multiple times

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The Fool--  im not so sure on this one but if playin through the whole album you 
can interlude with these chords-- i think theyre right

i think its something like:
 altering between--  Am   Em  Am  Em x2   then   G  followed by a quick  F   
before going back to   Am  Em  Am  Em (multiple times)
  then when it gets higher, im not sure, but i think it then just alternates 
between   C  E  C  E  (also multiple times)
  then it goes right back into     Am  Em  Am  Em
 
yeah so i use these chords when im playing along with the song on the album and it 
works out pretty good but if you have any suggestions please share

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Holland, 1945             (thanks to americanpig11)

       C G x2

C                    G
The only girl I've ever loved
C                      G
Was born with roses in her eyes
C                        G
But then they buried her alive
            D              C
One evening nineteen-forty-five
              D             G
With just her sister at her side
         D                C
And only weeks before the guns
             D             G
All came and rained on everyone
            D             C
Now she's a little boy in Spain
        D                  G
Playing pianos filled with flames
         D                C
On empty rings around the sun
            D                G
All sing to say my dream has come


                C             G
But now we must pick up every piece    
       C               G
Of the life we used to love
        C  
Just to keep ourselves
    G                D   
At least enough to carry on

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

               
                 C             G
But now we must pick up every piece    
       C               G
Of the life we used to love
        C  
Just to keep ourselves
    G                D   
At least enough to carry on


    G      A     C    C      G
And here's where your mother sleeps
    G    A  C   C               G             D
And here is the room where your brothers were born
G A  C     C      G
Indentions in the sheets
            G A    C    C               G      D
Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
            C      G       C     G
And it's so sad to see the world agree
            C                G                 D
That they'd rather see their faces filled with flies
G   A    C   C       G          D               G
All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes
   
      (ps- instead of tabbing it out to accommodate the horn part that fills the 
end, i suggest just moving in to communist daughter, which starts on G)

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Communist Daughter       (thanks to patjack)

  G D C C  x2
     G
Sweet communist
              
The communist daughter
D                    
Standing on the sea-weed water
C
Semen stains the mountain tops
C                          
semen stains the mountain tops
     G
With cocoa leaves along the border
D
Sweetness sings from every corner
C
Cars careening from the clouds
C
The bridges burst and twist around
    G
And wanting something warm and moving
D
Bends towards herself the soothing
C
Proves that she must still exist
C
She moves herself about her fist
      G
Sweet communist

The communist daughter
D
Standing on the sea-weed water
C
Semen stains the mountain tops
C                             G D C C x2   G <- end on
semen stains the mountain tops

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Oh Comely         (thanks to americanpig11 again)

E         C
Oh comely
                                      E
I will be with you when you lose your breath
                C                                      E
Chasing the only meaningful memory you thought you had left
                                   C
With some pretty bright and bubbly terrible scene
                                 E
That was doing her thing on your chest
                C
But oh comely
                                    G
It isn't as pretty as you'd like to guess
In your memory you're drunk on your awe to me
   C                          E
It doesn't mean anything at all

           C
Oh comely
                                    E
All of your friends are letting you blow
                   C
Bristling and ugly
                                          E
Bursting with fruits falling out from the holes
                                 C
Of some pretty bright and bubbly friend
                                                E
You could need to say comforting things in your ear
                 C
But oh comely
                                                G
There isn't such one friend that you could find here
Standing next to me
He's only my enemy
     C                            
I'll crush him with everything I own
E
say what you want to say
                        
Hang for your hollow ways.
C 
Moving your mouth to pull out
                  E      C     D  G  D  G  D  G D E
All your miracles aimed for meeeeee.


E  
Your father made fetuses
With flesh licking ladies
      C
While you and your mother
Were asleep in the trailer park
E   
Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums
    C
The music and medicine you needed for comforting
   E
So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving
    C
And pluck all your silly strings
And bend all your notes for me
E
Soft silly music is meaningful magical
    C
The movements were beautiful
All in your ovaries
E
All of them milking with green fleshy flowers
      C
While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines
E
Smelling of semen all under the garden
    C                                      
Was all you were needing when you still believed in me

E
say what you want to say
                        
Hang for your hollow ways.
C 
Moving your mouth to pull out
                  E      C     D  G  D  G  D  G D E
All your miracles aimed for meeeeee.


E   C
(Da da da part)


E   
I know they buried her body with others
    C
Her sister and mother and 500 families
    E
And will she remember me 50 years later
  C        
I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine
E
Know all your enemies
   C
We know who are enemies are
E
Know all your enemies
   C
We know who are enemies are


Am  E  (x3)

Am
Goldaline my dear                       
We will fold and freeze together
E
Far away from here                   
There is sun and spring and green forever
    Am
But now we move to feel
For ourselves inside some stranger's stomach
E
Place your body here
                                         Am  E                  
Let your skin begin to blend itself with mine

Am             E
de de de de de la da da da (x2) end on Am

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Ghost    (thanks to indiglopulse)

E             
Ghost, ghost I know you live within me

Feel as you fly

In thunderclouds above the city

Into one that I

A
Loved with all that was left within me

Until we tore in two

E
Now wings and rings and there's so many

                 B A E
Waiting here for you

E
And she was born in a bottle rocket, 1929

With wings that ring around a socket
                     A
Right between her spine

A
All drenched in milk and holy water

                   E
Pouring from the sky

E
I know that she will live for ever

                 B
She won't ever die

B                                             E
She goes and now she knows she'll never be afraid

B
To watch the morning paper blow
      
                                 E
Into a hole where no one can escape

         A  E
Dee, de de de de...

Bridge:
A E A E B A E

E
And one day in New York City baby

A girl fell from the sky

From the top of a burning apartment building

                    A
Fourteen stories high

A
And when her spirit left her body

                   E
How it split the sun

E
I know that she will live for ever

All goes on and on and on and

B                                              E
She goes and now she knows she'll never be afraid

B
To watch the morning paper blow

                                E
Into a hole where no one can escape
         A E
Dee, de de de de...

End:
E A E B E

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Untitled-- this one is pretty pointless when just playing on guitar, but if 
playing along with the album i think these are the exact chords to use-- also play 
them as the guitar sounding part in the background not as the whiny horn like part 
playing the main part-- if done right it sounds very good!

        E  A (alternate between these for a while) 
   then alternating  E  B (this comes in when the horn part sounds different, i 
believe after the second pause)
   then back to E and A before the extended E strumming right at the end

i think thats it-- sounds good to me!




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Two Headed Boy Pt. 2   (thanks to Stormx)

G         G                F           Em
    Daddy please hear this song that I sing
G           G               F               Em
    In your heart there's a spark that just screams
      C        C       G             D
For a lover to bring a child to your chest
           C          C              G            D
That could lay as you sleep and love all you have left
          C           C        Am             Am
Like your boy used to be, long ago wrapped in sheets
         D    D
Warm and wet



G           G                 F             Em
    Blister please with those wings in your spine
G           G         F          Em
    Love to be with a brother of mine
         C       C         G             D
How he'd love to find your tongue in his teeth
     C           C           G              D
In a struggle to find secret songs that you keep
           C        C              Am      Am
Wrapped in boxes so tight sounding only at night
       D    D
As you sleep



G         Am            D                C  G
    In my dreams you're alive and you're crying
        Am             D             C G
As your mouth moves in mine soft and sweet
         Am                  D             C    G
Rings of flowers around your eyes and I'll love you
        Am           D
For the rest of your life...
C    C    
Am   Am
D    D



G           G          F          Em
    Brother see we are one in the same
G           G              F                Em
    And you left with your head filled with flames
        C               C           G                D
And you watched as your brains fell out through your teeth
         C         C                G              D
Push the pieces in place, make your smile sweet to see
          C          C              Am         Am
Don't you take this away, I'm still wanting my face
        D    D
On your cheek



C               G           C            G
    And when we break we'll wait for our miracle
C        G           D         D
God is a place where some holy spectacle
C             G           C            G
lies. When we break we'll wait for our miracle
C        G              D            D           
God is a place you will wait for the rest of your
C    C    C    C
life.



G          B
Two headed boy
       G             B
She is all you could need
         G           B
She will feed you tomatoes
    C     G
And radio wires
    C
And retire to sheets
         D
Safe and clean
          C
But don't hate her
                    G
When she gets up to leave



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