[Intro] [Verse 1] I drove until the buildings stopped And the sky came all the way down to the ground Pulled over on a county road And sat there with the engine off And the flat land just went on and on There's something about the way the light moves here In the hour before it goes Like the whole middle of the country Is trying to show you something You forgot to notice When you lived inside it [Pre-Chorus] I tell people I left because I had to I don't tell them I still dream about this sky [Chorus] Flat land Open sky The kind of quiet That gets inside I spent so long Running from this I forgot that this Was also mine Flat land I hear you Flat land I'm still yours [Verse 2] A hawk sitting on a fence post Not doing anything, just sitting The way the corn moves all at once Like it's one thing, one breathing thing The smell of rain coming from the west An hour before it gets here I don't know how to love this place Without also loving the version of me That was too small to survive it But I'm learning Standing here in the middle of a county road I'm learning they can both be true [Pre-Chorus] I tell people I left because I had to I don't tell them I miss it every single day [Chorus] Flat land Open sky The kind of quiet That gets inside I spent so long Running from this I forgot that this Was also mine Flat land I hear you Flat land I'm still yours [Bridge] I used to think flat was a failure Like the land gave up before it got started I know now that flat is just Another kind of brave It doesn't hide behind anything It just goes on And on And on [Outro] Flat land... I hear you... I hear you...
