Verse
C C/B Am G F
And all five hundred thousand citizens of Wichita
C C/B Am G F
Tried to get a piece of your beautiful face
C C/B Am G F
Drooling on themselves in the Methodist parking lots
C C/B Am G F
Throw your shoes in the Arkansas and watch them get erased
[Chorus 1]
Am F D
Make calls at the business school
Am F D
"Is there no community college in your county?"
[Verse 2]
C C/B Am G F
They branded themselves with an ikon and an effigy
C C/B Am G F
And marked a fertile swath, a green ellipse
C C/B Am G F
An occidental notebook, an accidental mallergy
C C/B Am G F
You're sleeping now, sleeping now in the grain or the basement of the ECC
[Chorus 2]
Am F D
Spilling drugs on your pre-med clothes
Am F D
"Is there no grain alcohol available in cabinets?"
Am F D
I'd go in, but I'm scared and the museum got closed
Am F D
So instead I took a bus to the mountains and the labyrinths, home
[Outro]
C C/B Am G F
A quarter million children in the downtown of Wichita
C C/B Am G F
Playing in their suits on the fountains and the grates
C C/B Am G F
Spraying water at the girl with the flute and the mandolin
C C/B Am G F
Red skin, golden tone, sunflower state