C  C/B  Am  C7/G

F   Bb/F F

G      G7

C   (walk down bass)

[Verse 1]
        C               C/B
You can always see the ceiling
          Am          C7/G             F    Bb/F F
With the city looking in your bedroom window
     G
And looked upon as such
   G7                         C   F/C C
I memorized the plaster until 3:00

        C          C/B
‘Cause memorizing mud
       Am        C7/G            F        Bb/F F
Beats memorizing someone else’s heartache
              G
So if you’ve been out to the grassland
       G7                             C   F/C C
You’ll know just what my city eyes have seen

[Chorus]
             F
My head is splitting
             D7
My heart is gasping
               C       F/C C
And now you’re asking:
                F
“I know you’re leaving
                 D7
Can’t stop you dreaming
         G         G7
But why Nebraska?”


[Verse 2]
            C                C/B
Well you’d think that I was dying
    Am                  C7/G            F   Bb/F F
But new wounds seem to bleed the truest ink
    G                                       G7
And I’ll tell you, after thirteen years of trying:
                              C     F/C C
It won’t come out the way you think

   C                 C/B        Am
Atlantic drenched in irony and sunlight
          C7/G            F    Bb/F F
’m transported to those plains
           G
Where the trains stretch on forever
        G7                                   C   F/C C
And no matter how far you run, it looks the same

[Chorus]
   C7        F
My head is spinning
             D7
My heart is gasping
               C       F/C C
And now you’re asking:
    C7           F
“I know you’re leaving
                 D7
Can’t stop you dreaming
         G         G7
of wild Nebraska”


[Bridge]
     Dm                              E7
I’m working now all over Hell’s half acre
     Am                              D
And window seats may have the better view
     Dm                      E7
My midnight hour musings notwithstanding
            F                                   Gsus4  G7
I wish that I could just stay here and look at you


[Chorus]
            F
My head is spinning
             D7
My heart is gasping
               C       F/C C
And now you’re asking:
    C7        F
“I know I'm leaving
                 D7
so why do I keep dreaming
         G        G7
of damn Nebraska”


[Outro]
        C               C/B
You can always see the ceiling
          Am          C7/G             F    Bb/F F
With the city looking in your bedroom window
      G
That luminescent gaze
           G7
I hope it never looks away
          F                G             C
So I can see you one more time before I go