Not In Kansas – The National
Nghệ sĩ: The National
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Bảng hợp âm và lời bài hát Not In Kansas – The National
Intro
Verse 1→ Phiên khúc
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I am not in Kansas
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I can't slow down and I can't stand it
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Broadcast News into Hallelujah
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Hanne Darboven had a great idea
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Make a list, write it down
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Shave your head, draw a crown
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Move back home with mom and dad
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The pool is drained and they're not there
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My bedroom is a stranger's gun room
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Ohio's in a downward spiral
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I can't go back there anymore
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Since alt-right opium went viral
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I am not in Kansas
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Where I am, I don't know where
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Take me for a walk and blame this on the water dripping off the spear
Verse 2→ Phiên khúc
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You even get to wear a dress
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And feed his flesh to wayward daughters
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Everyone is so impressed
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Teachers, neighbors, and mothers, fathers
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First Testament was really great
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The sequel was incredible
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Like the Godfathers or the first two Strokes
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Every document's indelible
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Infidels and Heartbreak Beats
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Smidges of bad ecstasy
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I must have left it in my pocket
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With my Christianity in my rocket
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I'm binging hard on Annette Bening
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I'm listening to R.E.M. again
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Begin The Begin, over and over
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Begin The Begin, over and over
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I am not in Kansas
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Where I am, I don't know where
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Take me for a walk and blame this on the water dripping off the spear
Interlude
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If the sadness of life makes you tired
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And the failures of man make you sigh
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You can look to the time soon arriving
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When this noble experiment
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Winds down and calls it a day
Verse 3→ Phiên khúc
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My shadow's getting shorter
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I'm a child at the border
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Oh Godmother, you can't ignore us
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There isn't anybody else left to love us
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I wanted you when I was a child
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I raked the leaves and I started fires
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Now I'm reading whatever you give me
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It's half your fault so half forgive me
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I'm way behind in reflex math
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Biphasic sleepless emotional crashes
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Two days into one, shove 'em together
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I always wake up way before the weather
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My mother needs an army
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But I'm leaving home and I'm scared that I won't
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Have the balls to punch a Nazi
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Father, what is wrong with me?
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I am not in Kansas
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Where I am, I don't know where
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Take me for a walk and blame this on the water dripping off the spear
Verse 4→ Phiên khúc
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Oil droppers, rubber gloves
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I raked the leaves, I lit 'em up
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I read whatever it is you give me
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It's half your fault so half forgive me
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At the real Neil Armstrong taught me
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To play cutthroat at my Aunt Angela's house
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While my real dad's skate got caught in the ice
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And he drove us home with a spiral fracture
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It was then I was enlightened
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Roberta Flack the whole way home
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I was entirely unfrightened
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Dozing off and eternally un-alone
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The flowers cover over everything
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They cover over everything
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The flowers cover over everything
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I am not in Kansas
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Where I am, I don't know where
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Take me for a walk and blame this on the water dripping off the spear
Outro
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Time has come now to stop being human
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Time to find a new creature to be
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Be a fish or a weed or a sparrow
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For the Earth has grown tired and all of your time has expired
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All the gardens are sprouting with flowers
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All the treetops are bursting with birds
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And the people all know that it's over
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They lay down their ears and they hang up their tiresome words