[Intro]
      

    

      

C   (walk down bass)

[Verse 1]
             
You can always

          
 see the ceili

ng
            
With the city 

          
looking in you

             
r bedroom wind

   
ow
     
And looked upo

n as such
            
I memorized th

              
e plaster unti

      
l 3:00

             
‘Cause memoriz

     
ing mud
            
Beats memorizi

          
ng someone els

              
e’s heartache
              
So if you’ve b


een out to the

 grassland
            
You’ll know ju

              
st what my cit

             
y eyes have se

 
en

[Chorus]
             
My head is spl

itting
             
My heart is ga


sping
              
And now you’re

         
 asking:
              
“I know you’re

  
 leaving
              
Can’t stop you

   
 dreaming
             
But why Nebras

     
ka?”


[Verse 2]
             
Well you’d thi

              
nk that I was 

 
dying
            
But new wounds

          
 seem to bleed

             
 the truest in

   
k
             
And I’ll tell 

              
you, after thi

              
rteen years of

  
 trying:
              
It won’t come 

              
out the way yo

        
u think

             
Atlantic drenc

           
hed in irony a

    
nd sunlight
          
’m transported

             
 to those plai

    
ns
           
Where the trai

ns stretch on 

forever
            
And no matter 

              
how far you ru

              
n, it looks th

       
e same

[Chorus]
           
My head is spi

nning
             
My heart is ga


sping
              
And now you’re

         
 asking:
            
“I know you’re

   
 leaving
              
Can’t stop you

   
 dreaming
             
of wild Nebras

     
ka”


[Bridge]
            
I’m working no

              
w all over Hel

         
l’s half acre
            
And window sea

              
ts may have th

         
e better view
            
My midnight ho

              
ur musings not

 
withstanding
             
I wish that I 

              
could just sta

              
y here and loo

        
k at you


[Chorus]
            
My head is spi

nning
             
My heart is ga


sping
              
And now you’re

         
 asking:
            
“I know I'm le


aving
              
so why do I ke

   
ep dreaming
             
of damn Nebras

    
ka”


[Outro]
             
You can always

          
 see the ceili

ng
            
With the city 

          
looking in you

             
r bedroom wind

   
ow
      
That luminesce

nt gaze
           
I hope it neve

r looks away
             
So I can see y

             
ou one more ti

             
me before I go