Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Not In Kansas , by - The National. Release date: 16.05.2019
Song language: English
Not In Kansas |
| I am not in Kansas |
| I can’t slow down and I can’t stand it |
| Broadcast News into Hallelujah |
| Hanne Darboven had a great idea |
| Make a list, write it down |
| Shave your head, draw a crown |
| Move back home with mom and dad |
| The pool is drained and they’re not there |
| My bedroom is a stranger’s gun room |
| Ohio’s in a downward spiral |
| I can’t go back there anymore |
| Since alt-right opium went viral |
| I am not in Kansas |
| Where I am, I don’t know where |
| Take me for a walk and blame this on the water dripping off the spear |
| You even get to wear a dress |
| And feed his flesh to wayward daughters |
| Everyone is so impressed |
| Teachers, neighbors, and mothers, fathers |
| First Testament was really great |
| The sequel was incredible |
| Like the Godfathers or the first two Strokes |
| Every document’s indelible |
| Infidels and Heartbreak Beats |
| Smidges of bad ecstasy |
| I must have left it in my pocket |
| With my Christianity in my rocket |
| I’m binging hard on Annette Bening |
| I’m listening to R.E.M. |
| again |
| Begin The Begin, over and over |
| Begin The Begin, over and over |
| I am not in Kansas |
| Where I am, I don’t know where |
| Take me for a walk and blame this on the water dripping off the spear |
| If the sadness of life makes you tired |
| And the failures of man make you sigh |
| You can look to the time soon arriving |
| When this noble experiment |
| Winds down and calls it a day |
| My shadow’s getting shorter |
| I’m a child at the border |
| Oh Godmother, you can’t ignore us |
| There isn’t anybody else left to love us |
| I wanted you when I was a child |
| I raked the leaves and I started fires |
| Now I’m reading whatever you give me |
| It’s half your fault so half forgive me |
| I’m way behind in reflex math |
| Biphasic sleepless emotional crashes |
| Two days into one, shove 'em together |
| I always wake up way before the weather |
| My mother needs an army |
| But I’m leaving home and I’m scared that I won’t |
| Have the balls to punch a Nazi |
| Father, what is wrong with me? |
| I am not in Kansas |
| Where I am, I don’t know where |
| Take me for a walk and blame this on the water dripping off the spear |
| Oil droppers, rubber gloves |
| I raked the leaves, I lit 'em up |
| I read whatever it is you give me |
| It’s half your fault so half forgive me |
| At the real Neil Armstrong taught me |
| To play cutthroat at my Aunt Angela’s house |
| While my real dad’s skate got caught in the ice |
| And he drove us home with a spiral fracture |
| It was then I was enlightened |
| Roberta Flack the whole way home |
| I was entirely unfrightened |
| Dozing off and eternally un-alone |
| The flowers cover over everything |
| They cover over everything |
| The flowers cover over everything |
| I am not in Kansas |
| Where I am, I don’t know where |
| Take me for a walk and blame this on the water dripping off the spear |
| Time has come now to stop being human |
| Time to find a new creature to be |
| Be a fish or a weed or a sparrow |
| For the Earth has grown tired and all of your time has expired |
| All the gardens are sprouting with flowers |
| All the treetops are bursting with birds |
| And the people all know that it’s over |
| They lay down their airs and they hang up their tiresome words |