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