IOWA - Aoife O'Donovan

[00:04.86]I am waiting for this book to get good,
[00:10.17]I do not have your patience,
[00:14.76]So I'm driving up to Chicago,
[00:19.86]I’m getting weird looks at gas stations,
[00:25.17]I did not bring a winter coat,
[00:30.15]I do not have your foresight,
[00:34.65]A holistic practitioner told me once,
[00:39.87]It’s why I will not live a long life,
[00:44.82]I am trying to remember where I gave up,
[00:51.48]If it was not in Iowa,
[00:57.18]Iowa,
[01:00.21]Somewhere in the middle of the middle of the Great Plains I saw,
[01:06.18]A little girl waving her hand out the window of a car,
[01:11.07]Saying goodbye to her ma,
[01:14.729996]Iowa,
[01:17.79]where the tall grass prairie used to ripple like the ocean in the breeze,
[01:23.76]and the hummingbirds still suckled from the flowers in the trees,
[01:28.95]it’d bring you to your knees,
[01:35.009995]I can imagine my whole life,
[01:40.17]Sweet and never-ending,
[01:45.119995]In every house I float by,
[01:49.89]But they’d never let me blend in,
[01:54.990005]I called a taxi in Des Moines,
[02:00.03]I met him at the corner,
[02:04.83]When I asked about his army coat,
[02:09.84]He said he would not tell a foreigner,
[02:15.3]Iowa,
[02:17.7]Somewhere in the middle of the middle of the Great Plains I saw,
[02:23.64]A little girl waving her hand out the window of a car,
[02:28.56]Saying goodbye to her ma,
[02:32.19]Iowa,
[02:35.28]where the tall grass prairie used to ripple like the ocean in the breeze,
[02:41.22]and the hummingbirds still suckled from the flowers in the trees,
[02:46.41]it’d bring you to your knees,
[03:00.39]I am waiting for this book to get good,
[03:12.72]And you won’t meet me halfway,
[03:17.28]So I’m driving up to Chicago,
[03:22.38]I am sorry to keep you waiting.