Lyrics:

this song (off Light Up Gold) is about the various sights of the state of North Dakota. it has kind of a dreary tone, which reflects the state it describes
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

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