Kansas
Vienna Teng
(Inland Territory - 2009)


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Sun sets in an ocean of brown farmland haze
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The power lines draped across roads you could drive on for days


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Well it's all too perfect, time to look


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Back at us now
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Endless and empty like Kansas
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Our cities of clouds
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Flat on the table like Kansas


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I lay down in sheets, suddenly worn threadbare
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Every wall I lean on transforms to sliding doors and thin air


       Em               A        Em              A
Well I hope yours is kinder, let go of this when you find her


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Bury this hard
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Down underneath your white canvas
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Our houses of cards
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Flat on the table like Kansas


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It's not regret, just an unexpected accounting of debts
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Only now called
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No it's not regret, just remembrance is all
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Of how close we had come, the war almost won
      A
But I sent up our flag and moved on


        Bm
You and I
G                       D
Lost to the winter like Kansas
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And all my goodbyes
G                      D
Flat on the table like Kansas


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     discounting of debts, only now called