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