Neutral Milk Hotel - Holland 1945

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1"One... Two... ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR!"
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4Verse:
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5The only girl I've ever loved
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6Was born with roses in her eyes
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7But then they buried her alive
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8One evening Nine-teen-forty-five
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9With just her sister at her side
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10And only weeks before the guns
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11All came and rained on everyone
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12Now she's a little boy in Spain
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13Playing pianos filled with flames
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14On empty rings around the sun
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15All sing to say my dream has come
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17Chorus:
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18But now we must pick up every piece
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19Of this life we used to love
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20Just to keep ourselves at least
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21Enough to carry on!
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23Verse:
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24And now we ride the circus wheel
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25With your dark brother wrapped in white
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26Says it was good to be alive
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27But now he rides a comet's flame
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28And won't be coming back again
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29The Earth looks better from a star
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30That's right above from where you are
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31He didn't mean to make you cry
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32With sparks that ring and bullets fly
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33On empty rings around your heart
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34The world just screams and falls apart
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36Chorus:
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37But now we must pick up every piece
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38Of the life we used to love
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39Just to keep ourselves at least
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40Enough to carry on!
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42Verse:
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43And here's where your mother sleeps
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44And here is the room where your brothers were born
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45In-den-tions in the sheets
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46Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore
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47And it's so sad to see the world agree
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48That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies
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49All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes
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Outro: F94 C95 F96 C97
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