[00:18.90]Couple guys in first class on a flight from New York to Los Angeles
[00:24.96]Kinda making small talk, killin' time, flirtin' with the flight attendants
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[00:30.77]Thirty thousand feet above what would be Oklahoma
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[00:36.64]Just a bunch of square corn fields and wheat farms, man it all looks the same
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[00:42.51]Miles and miles of back roads and highways connecting little towns and fun & games
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[00:48.50]Who'd wanna live down there, in the middle of nowhere
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[00:54.69]They've never drove through Indiana
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[01:00.13]Been the man who plowed that Earth
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[01:03.19]Planted that seed, busted his ass for you and me
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[01:06.88]Or caught a harvest moon in Kansas
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[01:11.88]Or they'd understand why God made those fly over states
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[01:19.76]I bet that mile haul in Santa Fe freight train engineer's seen it all
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[01:25.51]Just like that flat bed cowboy stacking US steel on a three day haul
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[01:31.13]Roads and rails under their feet, yeah that sounds like a first class seat
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[01:36.82]On the plains of Oklahoma
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[01:41.51]With a windshield sunset in your eyes
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[01:45.19]Like a water-color painted sky
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[01:49.13]You'll think heaven's doors have opened
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[01:53.06]You'll understand why God made those fly over states
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[02:11.55]Take a ride across the Badlands
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[02:17.73]Feel that freedom on your face
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[02:20.92]Breathe in all that open space
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[02:23.42]And meet a girl from Amarillo
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[02:28.55]You'll understand why God made...
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[02:31.64]You might even wanna plant your stakes
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[02:34.33]In those fly over states Yeah
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[02:52.46]Have you ever been through Indiana
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[03:04.59]On the plains of Oklahoma
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[03:16.09]Take a ride