Guitar chords Two Headed Boy

Two-Headed Boy is a track from the album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by the band Neutral Milk Hotel. Considered a concept album, it was partially inspired by reading Anne Franks diary and explores themes of love, loss, and reflection through cryptic lyrics and eclectic instrumentation.

Key:  G 
G
 
G
          
B
 
Two headed boy
    
G
           
B
 
All floating in glass
    
G
          
B
 
The sun it has passed
         
C
            
G
 
Now it's blacker than black
      
C
                      
D
 
I can hear as you tap on your jar
     
C
                           
G
 
I am listening to hear where you are
     
C
                           
G
 
I am listening to hear where you are
G
          
B
 
Two headed boy
G
              
B
 
Put on sunday shoes
    
G
               
B
        
C
        
G
 
And dance round the room to accordion keys
         
C
                         
D
 
With the needle that sings in your heart
         
C
                         
G
 
Catching signals that sound in the dark
         
C
                         
G
 
Catching signals that sound in the dark
        
D
            
C
 
We will take off our clothes
                       
G
                   
D
               
C
 
And they'll be placing fingers through the notches in your spine
                          
G
                
D
               
C
 
And when all is breaking, everything that you could keep inside
                           
Am
                               
D
 
Now your eyes ain't moving now, they just lay there in their climb
G
          
B
 
Two headed boy
     
G
           
B
 
With pulleys and weights
   
G
      
B
        
C
              
G
 
Creating a radio played just for two
       
C
                             
D
 
In the parlor with a moon across her face
    
C
                            
G
 
And through the music he sweetly displays
       
C
                        
G
 
Silver speakers that sparkle all day
             
C
                        
Am
                                
D
    
C
 
Made for his lover who's floating and choking with her hands across her face
           
G
            
D
             
C
 
And in the dark we will take off our clothes
                        
G
                  
D
               
C
 
And they'll be placing fingers through the notches in your spine
                          
G
                
D
               
C
 
And when all is breaking, everything that you could keep inside
                           
Am
                                
D
 
Now your eyes ain't moving now, they just lay there in their cli-i-i-i-imb
G
          
B
 
Two headed boy
           
G
         
B
 
There's no reason to grieve
    
G
              
B
                  
C
           
G
 
The world that you need is wrapped in gold silver sleeves
     
C
                              
D
 
Left beneath Christmas trees in the snow
           
C
                      
G
 
And I will take you and leave you alone
         
C
                       
G
 
Watching spirals of white softly flow
          
C
 
Over your eyelids and all you did
                                       
D
 
Will wait until the point when you let go
C
                           
G
 
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C
                            
G
 
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C
                                           
G
 
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