Parquet Courts
N Dakota
[Verse 1]
Train death paintings, anti-meth murals
Color the ghettos of North Dakota
Bismarck tractor association
Coffee and toothpaste, this was vacation
I saw, while squinting, the hidden layer
In those lost-era grain elevators
Feudal beginnings, amber wave looseness
Post-Nordic grinning, tired and toothless

[Verse 2]
Cigarette advertisement country
Wild and perfect, but lacking something
In Manitoba, they called it boring
At night, we hum to Canada's snoring
Westbound taken, exiled Texan
From a former Dutch trade encampment
Former slave quarters tucked by the alley
Serf population too high to tally