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Kansas City Lyrics
The river is deep and the river is wide, and the girl that I love is on the other side. She wants to move to Kansas City: “Move, pretty baby, where the sky is so blue.” She’s walking down Ellum, turning down Main, trying to find someone to sell her cocaine. She wants to move to Kansas City: “Move, pretty baby, where the sky is so blue.” With a dayful of promises dead on her lips, Mark 15:34 tucked next to her hip, she wants to move to Kansas City: “Move, pretty baby, where the sky is so blue.” I jumped in the water and started to drown. I thought of her walking and turned back around. I want to move to Kansas City, where the sky is so blue. With her pair of old wings that opened just once, she can walk on two feet now, she can go where she wants. She can move to Kansas City, where the sky is so blue. And I’ll tell you one thing that you should never do - never let a woman tell you she loves you. She’ll call you “baby,” she’ll look in your eye, then she’ll get on that airplane and wave “bye bye bye bye bye bye, baby.” And if I could believe what I want to believe, I’d hold you all close and take you with me, all of you to Kansas City, where the sky is so blue.

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tothebeat
04-15-2003

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This song is beautiful all around. The lyrics remind me of someone I know who lives very far away. For me, I interrept the river analogy as the distance separating the two who are in love. I get chills everytime hearing him sing "bye bye bye bye bye bye."

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Kabukistar
12-02-2004

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Mark 15:34-

And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"--which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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Milkman82
12-16-2004

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I’ll tell you one thing that you should never do - never let a woman tell you she loves you. She’ll call you “baby,” she’ll look in your eye, then she’ll get on that airplane and wave “bye bye bye bye bye bye, baby.” No shit. I'll never make that mistake again.

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ghostco
01-30-2005

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I saw them perform this song live, it was incredible.

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IAmACliche
12-10-2005

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haha..i love it...love scorned dudes...this song is so nuts...who'd move to Kansas City, anyway?

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sternj
04-07-2006

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"Walking down Ellum/turning down main/trying to find someone to sell her cocaine" is an old Rev. Gary Dayis lyrics from "Cocaine". Kansas City is considered the birthplace of much of the electric blues movement -- these two are not coincidences. I think the girl wants to immerse herself in history/heritage that isn't her -- a romanticized past.

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THEJENNYDARE
12-18-2007

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whats the point in dissing on KC? the song is beautiful, lets leave it to that.

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battaryacid
01-17-2008

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would it be so hard, would it be so terrible, for him to just once, JUST ONCE, say "move to kansas city where the skies are so pretty"

just once. he'd only have to say it once

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shockdelica
04-23-2009

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As an aussie, I have no opinion or knowledge about KC, but I think this is a fantastic song...

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