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Holland, 1945 is about Anne Frank, who was a young girl living in the German-occupied Netherlands during World War II. While hiding from the Nazis, she kept a diary that has since become a classic piece of literature.
Distorted guitars, crashing drums, and a crescendo of horns, Holland, 1945 describes an unfair world full of pain and missery. Probably the albums loudest track, it was the last to be written for “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea”

In Neutral Milk Hotel’s only single off “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” Mangum describes the plight of Anne Frank, claiming she was the only girl he ever loved, and her reincarnated figure has made his dreams come true. However Mangum realises he was never part of these events. He is now riding the circus wheel of life, a dead brother claims it was good to be alive but is now happy up in the cosmos. This image of the dead brother of one of Mangums close friends describes the misfortunes of life, mirroring the suffering of the Franks. Mangum can picture the secret anex of Anne Frank, but he can’t stop her from being buried alive a week before Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated. In the last verse he calls for a preservation of the decesed, he is sad to see that some people would have agreed with Anne’s plight, but calls for a world without anti-semitsm, a pureness. Just like a white rose.
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  • Nakkinak

    This is hilariously perfect

    Tuesday evening

  • musiksaya

    The only girl I've ever loved was born with roses in her eyes...

    last month

  • Gurdaur

    >implying this isn't the best party song.

    last month

  • dontsagemebro

    the best thing ever.

    March 2012

  • Schlockischlo

    oonnee twwoo one two three four

    March 2012

  • TheDingoTheory

    LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS TO DEFEAT THE HUNS

    March 2012

  • therhapsody

    um well I guess we're at the end of the song so.............. SWWWWWEEEET COMMUNIST THE COMMUNIST DAUGHTER

    March 2012

  • Nakkinak

    I guess even through the heaviest alzheimers, these lyrics, I will never forget them

    March 2012

  • pravdt

    I'LL SEE YOU ON THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOOOOOONN

    February 2012

  • Foul_soul

    ALL WHEN I'D WANT TO KEEP WHITE ROSES IN THERE EYYYYYES

    February 2012

  • matt_white

    THAT THEY'D RATHER SEE THEIR FACES FILLED WITH FLIES

    February 2012

  • karlo87

    AND IT'S SO SAD TO SEE THE WORLD AGREE

    February 2012

  • ChudleyCannons

    WHERE THEIR BODIES ONCE MOVED BUT DON'T MOVE ANYMORE

    February 2012

  • tehchizzle

    INDENTIONS IN THE SHEETS

    February 2012

  • jms190194

    AND HERE IS THE ROOM WHERE YOUR BROTHERS WERE BORN

    February 2012

  • BTBAMowns111

    AND HERE'S WHERE YOUR MOTHER SLEEEEEEEEEEPPPSSSS* (almost there)

    February 2012

  • crackityjones92

    this is getting ridiculous :/

    February 2012

  • owl21

    You fucked it up, idiots.

    January 2012

  • una-reznor

    WITH YOUR DARK BROTHER WRAPPED IN WHIIIIIITE

    January 2012

  • MattAurand

    AND NOW WE RIDE THE CIRCUS WHEEEELLL

    January 2012
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