Ghost Mice - Holland
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On our forth stop in this continent-spanning trip, we go to Holland, where Chris Clavin and Hannah Jones
took a trip to without thinking that they might want to bring along some money for weed. Spoiler: Things
turned out alright in the end.
The second-to-last verse is sung without playing the accompanied chords, and has been left without them.
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GHOST MICE: EUROPE
"Holland"
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We were the cDliché American Ebackpackers
GStanding on the side of the road in the rDain
With our Ecardboard sign Gwritten in black sharpie
That read DAm-Aster-dGam
We were going to DAm-Aster-Gdam
So we Dweren't surprised by the lEooks in the eyes
Of the Gpeople in their cars when they passed us by
And they Dgave us the middle Efinger
Or the Gthumbs up or thumbs down
But Dwe stayed tough, we Estood our ground
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And by the end of the afternoon
We got Ddropped off in the Emiddle of this Gtown
Now Aeveryone will tell you 'bout the Gcoffee shops
And Aeveryone will tell you 'bout the Gred-light district
But someAhow up to now it seems they Gall forgot to mention
The Dmillions of bikes locked to the Amillions of bridges
That Garch up like rainbows to cross the city's millions of Dcanals
That run down every Astreet with the houseboats nice and Gneat
And the Gbuildings lean so much you think that they might fall Ddown
Like the rainA that day that drove us to a stoop
Ya Ggotta feel sorry for all the hippies
That came here in the 'D60s
Now they don't know who they Aare
We watched one of them playin' Gflute
He was tryin' to earn some change
We had spent all of our Bmmoney for that Gday
We grew Bmhungry and the rain just Gcame and came
And Bmoh how I wished I had Gsome of those fries
That the Bmpeople were eating when they Gpassed us by
And I Aclosed my eyes for a Gminute or two
I Aopened them up when I Ggot a nudge from you
AThere was the hippie, the Gone with the flute,
AAnd holding in his hands was my Gwish come true
And he Dhanded me the whole Gthing
And this Awhole interaction felt was more like a Gdream
He was Dreadin' my mind it Gseemed
Like a Agenie granting wishes for people on the Gstreet
And we Dnever could have thanked him Genough
I Adon't know if he knew how much it Gmeant to us
And Dthat night in a tent we Acounted all our money
And we Gfigured out how long we could Dstay
The Dway it looked to me we could Alive here forever
GSleep in the campground, eat falDafel every day
But that's Bmnot what we came here to Ado
We had Dso much more left to Gsee
And Dthough this place felt so Anice
We Gmade our plans to Dleave
And we went to this park where they had free bikes at the gate
Spent the day riding through the trees and it felt great
We were offered a place to stay on the floor of someone's office
But we chose to sleep beside the interstate
And the Dsounds of the cars passing Gby
DPut us right to Gsleep
DNothin' beats layin' right under the Gstars
And I Dalways feel safe when you're Asleepin' beside Dme