This is the chord progression of Not In Kansas by The National on Piano, Ukulele, Guitar and Keyboard.
[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
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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
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[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
