Intro: C A# F (x4)
Verse:
C A#
Train death paintings, anti-meth mural
F
Color the ghettos of North Dakota
C A# F
Bismark tractor association, coffee and toothpaste, This was vacation
C A#
I saw, while squinting, the hidden layer
F
In those lost-era grain elevators
C A#
Feudal beginnings, amber wave looseness
F
Post-Nordic grinning, tired and toothless
Bridge: C A# F (x2)
Verse:
C A#
Cigarette advertisement country
F
Wild and perfect, but lacking something
C A#
In Manitoba they called it boring
F
At night we hum to Canada's snoring
C A#
Westbound taken, exiled Texan
F
From a former Dutch trade encampment
C A#
Former slave quarters tucked by the alley
F
Serf population too high to tally
Outro: C A# F