Not In Kansas chords by The National

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
G C G D

Verse 1:
G
I am not in Kansas
       C
I can't slow down and I can't stand it
     G
Broadcast News into Hallelujah
      D
Hanne Darboven had a great idea
G
Make a list, write it down
C

Shave your head, draw a crown
G
Move back home with mom and dad
  D
The pool is drained and they're not there
  G
My bedroom is a stranger's gun room
C
Ohio's in a downward spiral
G
I can't go back there anymore
D
Since alt-right opium went viral


Chorus:
C  Am
I am not in Kansas
    G         D
Where I am, I don't know where
C       Am     G            D
Take me for a walk and blame this on the water dripping off the spear


Verse 2:
G
You even get to wear a dress
C
And feed his flesh to wayward daughters
G
Everyone is so impressed
D
Teachers, neighbors, and mothers, fathers
G
First Testament was really great
  C
The sequel was incredible
     G
Like the Godfathers or the first two Strokes
    D
Every document's indelible
G
Infidels and Heartbreak Beats
C
Smidges of bad ecstasy
 G
I must have left it in my pocket
D
With my Christianity in my rocket
  G
I'm binging hard on Annette Bening
  C
I'm listening to R.E.M. again
  G
Begin The Begin, over and over
  D
Begin The Begin, over and over


Chorus:
C    Am
I am not in Kansas
    G          D
Where I am, I don't know where
C      Am              G            D
Take me for a walk and blame this on the water dripping off the spear


Interlude:
    G             C
If the sadness of life makes you tired
    D            G
And the failures of man make you sigh
               C
You can look to the time soon arriving
     D
When this noble experiment
Am             G
Winds down and calls it a day


Verse 3:
G
My shadow's getting shorter
   C
I'm a child at the border
  G
Oh Godmother, you can't ignore us
      D
There isn't anybody else left to love us
 G
I wanted you when I was a child
 C
I raked the leaves and I started fires
G
Now I'm reading whatever you give me
   D
It's half your fault so half forgive me
G
I'm way behind in reflex math
C
Biphasic sleepless emotional crashes
G
Two days into one, shove 'em together
 D
I always wake up way before the weather
  G
My mother needs an army
    C
But I'm leaving home and I'm scared that I won't
G
Have the balls to punch a Nazi
D
Father, what is wrong with me?


Chorus:
C    Am
I am not in Kansas
    G          D
Where I am, I don't know where
C       Am              G             D
Take me for a walk and blame this on the water dripping off the spear


Verse 4:
G
Oil droppers, rubber gloves
C
I raked the leaves, I lit 'em up
G
I read whatever it is you give me
D
It's half your fault so half forgive me
G
At the real Neil Armstrong taught me
  C
To play cutthroat at my Aunt Angela's house
G
While my real dad's skate got caught in the ice
  D
And he drove us home with a spiral fracture
G
It was then I was enlightened
    C
Roberta Flack the whole way home
G
I was entirely unfrightened
D
Dozing off and eternally un-alone
C      Am
The flowers cover over everything
G       D
They cover over everything
C  Am      G       D
The flowers cover over everything


Chorus:
C    Am
I am not in Kansas
G            D
Where I am, I don't know where
C      Am             G            D
Take me for a walk and blame this on the water dripping off the spear


Outro:
     G           C
Time has come now to stop being human
    D            G
Time to find a new creature to be
   G          C
Be a fish or a weed or a sparrow
    D                   C      G
For the Earth has grown tired and all of your time has expired
    G             C
All the gardens are sprouting with flowers
    D              G
All the treetops are bursting with birds
    G             C
And the people all know that it's over
   D              Am           G
They lay down their ears and they hang up their tiresome words