This is Kevin Devine's cover of Neutral Milk Hotel's Holland 1945, as played on his live 
"Live At Austin City Limits Music Festival 2007"

Intro: 

Muted strumming during "One... Two..."

            
The only girl 

    
I've ever love

d
          
Was born with 

roses in her e

yes
   
But then they 

buried her ali

ve
	            
One evening 19


45
	          
With just her 


sister at her 

side
           
And only weeks

 
 before the gu

ns
             
All came and r

	  	    
ained on every

one
            
Now she's a li

	   
ttle boy in Sp

ain
           
Playing pianos

    
 filled with f

lames
             
On empty rings

 		  
 around the su

n
            
All sing to sa

	     
y my dream has

 come


              
But now we mus

      
t pick up ever

y piece
             
Of the life we

        
 used to love
          
Just to keep o

urselves
            
At least enoug

	    
h to carry on

Same as Verse 1:
And now we ride the circus wheel
With your dark brother wrapped in white
Says it was good to be alive
But now he rides a comet's flame
And won't be coming back again
The Earth looks better from a star
That's right above from where you are
He didn't mean to make you cry
With sparks that ring and bullets fly
On empty rings around your heart
The world just screams and falls apart

              
But now we mus

      
t pick up ever

y piece
             
Of the life we

        
 used to love
          
Just to keep o

urselves
            
At least enoug

	    
h to carry on

		         
And here's whe

re your mother

 sleeps
		
And here is th

e room where y

our brothers w

ere born
        
Indentions in 

the sheets
			
Where their bo

dies once move

d but don't mo

ve anymore
            
And it's so sa

          
d to see the w


orld agree
 			       
That they'd ra

  
ther see their

 faces fill wi

th flies
	          
All when I'd w

          
ant to keep wh

ite roses in t

heir eyes

Play C, G repeating until the end