Chords for Neutral Milk Hotel / Jeff Mangum - Holland, 1945

_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[C] The only girl I've ever [G] _ _ _
[C] met was born to throw a sex _ [G] _ _ _
_ [C] baton in a merry go round.
[G] It was [D]
[C] 1945 with [E] her sister [G] Alice.
She [E] was deep [C] in the guns, [E] all the brains on her.
[G] Now she's [E] got a little boy, [C] he's way way [D] bigger than a silver [G] blaze on his.
Screams of the violence, [Em]
all things to make my preacher [C] laugh.
_ _ _ [G] _
Now we've [C] got back up [Em] [G] the valley _ of [C] life we used [G] to run.
It's us [C] who give [Em] ourselves [G] a season of [D] carry _ _ _ on.
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Em] _ [G] _
_ _ _ [C] Back on the mountain.
[G] _
_ _ _ [C] _ Sentence was [Em] to be [G]
alive but [E] not to die.
So come [C] on, let's move [E] on.
_ [G]
We are [D] so much better than [C] what's gone.
Let's rise above [E] from where [G] you are.
_ [D] The [C] beating drums of life [D] and death.
[G] The silence [D] that rings around [C] your heart.
The [E] world's always been set a [C] ball to the heart.
[G] _ _ Now [C] we've got back up [G] every piece [Em] of [C] things life we [G] used to love.
It's us [C] who give [G] ourselves a season of [D]
carry _ _ on.
[G] And here's [C] where your [G] mother's sweet.
_ [Em] And here is the room where your [D] brothers were born.
[Em] And [C] it's just as harsh.
_ _ _ [Em] [C] But he's one thing for so [D] many.
And [C] it's so [Em] sad to see the world dream.
[C] That they'd rather see their faces [E] spilled with blood.
[Em] I'm not one to keep [D] fighting around the seven sins.
[G]
There I am.
_ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [G] _
_ _ We've got to get to trouble.
_ [C] _
This house is really good.
But it's not here.
It's in California.
[Em] _ [D] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ I have a [C] cousin who's here.
_ _ _ [N] _