The Citizens Of Wichita Cifras

Capo III
 
Like a lot of early Emperor X, the guitar on the album is tuned flat from concert tuning, roughly a 432hz A
 
[Verse 1]
 
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And all five hundred thousand citizens of Wichita
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Tried to get a piece of your beautiful face
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Drooling on themselves in the Methodist parking lots
           C            C/B          Am              G      F
Throw your shoes in the Arkansas and watch them get erased
 
[Chorus 1]
 
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Make calls at the business school
          Am           F                            D
"Is there no community college in your county?"
 
[Verse 2]
 
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They branded themselves with an ikon and an effigy
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And marked a fertile swath, a green ellipse
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An occidental notebook, an accidental mallergy
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You're sleeping now, sleeping now in the grain or the basement of the ECC
 
[Chorus 2]
 
Am                     F                 D
Spilling drugs on your pre-med clothes
          Am               F                         D
"Is there no grain alcohol available in cabinets?"
       Am                         F                   D
I'd go in, but I'm scared and the museum got closed
     Am                        F                             D
So instead I took a bus to the mountains and the labyrinths, home
 
[Outro]
 
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A quarter million children in the downtown of Wichita
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Playing in their suits on the fountains and the grates
         C            C/B           Am            G         F
Spraying water at the girl with the flute and the mandolin
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Red skin, golden tone, sunflower state
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