Manhattan Kansas ain't no place to have a baby When you got no man to give it his last name And her folks back in Manhattan didn't treat her like a lady
wall And call me anytime at all I'm so happy now boy You're not in Kansas anymore I'm so happy now boy You're not in Kansas anymore
to go Kansas, she said that I reminded her of home She called me Kansas And I know I've never been there, oh, no Kansas, she called me Kansas Kansas
Daddy, daddy, do you miss me? The way I crawled upon your knee Those childish games of hide and seek Seem a million miles away Am I lost in some illusion
All these years to many ahead to think clear Some say where's my crystal ball Some men play the lottery Makin' bets against the governments economy They
I've exhausted every possible solution I've tried every game there is to play In this search for Christ-like perfection I'm convinced, I've only left
I come into this place Burning to receive Your peace I come with my own chains From wars I've fought for my own selfish gain You're my God and my Father
Just when I think I've got it, it's gone When I think I know the answer And I dare to raise my hand, it's wrong Stop, stop, stop this foolish pride of
I think about the waves of time And how they roll across my shoulders Thinkin' no clock is gonna get the best of me Minutes threaten through the years
From glass alabaster she poured out The depths of her soul Oh, foot of Christ would You wait If her harlotry's known? Falls a tear to darken the dirt
You in the mirror starin' back at me Oh, conscience let me be To the pure, all things are pure To those who're defiled Unbelieving, nothing is pure Their
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: a??Move, pretty baby, where
sure come to life when you come home So take care of you for me in Kansas City and honey call me every now and then Take care of you for me in Kansas
too far And when i look up to the stars I wanna be, i wanna be like they are Ooh [chorus] Sometimes you gotta get of kansas (gotta get out) And sometimes
for days Well, it's all too perfect, time to look back at us now Endless and empty like Kansas Our cities of clouds flat on the table like Kansas I
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sure will come to life when you come home So take care of you for me in Kansas City And honey, call me every now and then Take care of you for me in Kansas
Some of you may know me and many of you won't I am just a player in the band Some of you will listen and some of you will hear Some of you may laugh at