To the Stars

Prompt

Wide-open prairie country with steel guitar, acoustic strum, harmonica and a hopeful, horizon-wide chorus. An anthem for the US state of Kansas, proud, warm, radio quality, clear English diction. [Vocals: male lead vocal] [Lyrics] [Verse 1] Sunflowers turn their faces to a sky that never ends The Flint Hills roll in waves of grass the prairie wind still bends A meadowlark is singing from a fencepost in the light Kansas, you're the open heart that makes the world feel right [Chorus] Ad astra per aspera, to the stars through every storm Kansas, you're the flat wide ground that keeps a body warm From Dodge City to Topeka, Wichita to the line Kansas, under all that sky, you're mine [Verse 2] Wheat as gold as any coin from Goodland to the east The cattle drives of Abilene, the storms that never ceased A tornado on the horizon and a cellar door below Kansas, you're the strength that only prairie people know [Chorus] Ad astra per aspera, to the stars through every storm Kansas, you're the flat wide ground that keeps a body warm From Dodge City to Topeka, Wichita to the line Kansas, under all that sky, you're mine [Bridge] Dorothy had it right, there's no place like home Kansas, under all that sky, I'm never alone [Chorus] Ad astra per aspera, to the stars through every storm Kansas, you're the flat wide ground that keeps a body warm From Dodge City to Topeka, Wichita to the line Kansas, under all that sky, you're mine