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Minnesota (i/mɪnɨˈsoʊtə/) is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state on May 11, 1858. Known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", the state's name comes from a Dakota word for "sky-tinted water". Those waters, together with forests, parks, and wilderness areas, offer residents and tourists a variety of outdoor recreational opportunities.
Minnesota is the 12th most extensive and the 21st most populous of the U.S. states. Nearly 60% of its residents live in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area (known as the "Twin Cities"), the center of transportation, business, industry and education and home to an internationally known arts community. The remainder of the state consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture; deciduous forests in the southeast, now cleared, farmed and settled; and the less populated North Woods, used for mining, forestry, and recreation.
Well tragedy's appealing
Disaster an addiction
Waiting for the good in everything
While the world keeps feeling
There's safety in this distance
This painting, entertainment
Waiting for the good in everything
While the world keeps feeling
Cause distance
With these problems
I'm not a failure now
Anxiety's misleading
It's kosher, yet revealing
Waiting for the good in everything
While the world keeps feeling
And shine a light down on this
And shine a light down on everyone and everything we see
While the world keeps feeling
This distance
With these problems
I'm not a failure now
You wonder why
And realize what we're made of
Afraid of
Failing
Failing now
In spite of this
I'm not a failure now
In light of this
I'm not a failure