Okkervil River Lyrics
Kansas City

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
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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