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