Neutral Milk Hotel – Holland 1945 (Ukulele)

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The only girl I've ever loved

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Was born with roses in her eyes

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But then they buried her alive

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One evening Nine-teen-forty-five

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With just her sister at her side

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And only weeks before the guns

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All came and rained on everyone

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Now she's a little boy in Spain

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Playing pianos filled with flames

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On empty rings around the sun

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All sing to say my dream has come

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But now we must pick up every piece

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Of this life we used to love

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Just to keep ourselves at least

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Enough to carry on!

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And now we ride the circus wheel

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With your dark brother wrapped in white

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Says it was good to be alive

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But now he rides a comet's flame

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And won't be coming back again

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The Earth looks better from a star

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That's right above from where you are

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He didn't mean to make you cry

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With sparks that ring and bullets fly

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On empty rings around your heart

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The world just screams and falls apart

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But now we must pick up every piece

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Of the life we used to love

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Just to keep ourselves at least

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Enough to carry on!

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And here's where your mother sleeps

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And here is the room where your brothers were born

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In-den-tions in the sheets

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Where their bodies once moved but don't move anymore

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And it's so sad to see the world agree

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That they'd rather see their faces fill with flies

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All when I'd want to keep white roses in their eyes