Name: Kansas City by COF Performing Arts
Duration: 52 s
Description: A snippet of the COF Jazz Band performing Kansas City by Jerry Leiber at our Fall Concert.

A snippet of the COF Jazz Band performing Kansas City by Jerry Leiber at our Fall Concert.

Kansas City

I told my momma I'd be safe
meeting strangers in familiar places 
i've got problems just for fun 
but I've never met someone who rubs them all over everyone 

baby I'm just playing it cruel 
can't put my heart into a fool 
you like my sympathy 
and eating up all the raw parts of me

but I'm fine with 
being there for someone who's a little bit fucked up 
we've all got something in us that we cannot give up 
but you, you got a lot to do
but baby I can't help you if you want to go back to 
the kind of life you had before I met you 

if my momma knew what you said 
she'd tell me to put it all to bed 
and I keep gravitating to you I guess I like it better when I'm shit out of luck and screwed 

baby i've laid it out flat
made it seem like i've gone to the moon and back 
don't look at me with misery 
when there are still a million shades of me you haven't seen 

but I'm fine with 
being there for someone who's a little bit fucked up 
we've all got something in us that we cannot give up 
but you, you got a lot to do
but baby i can't help you if you want to go back to 
the kind of life you had before i met you

before i met you

I'm having trouble walking in straight lines
my feet turn inwards, I can't keep in time. 
But babe it's impossible to stay so kind
when I'm scraping at the insides of my mind.

You only see what you want to see. 
I only hear what I want to hear. 
We only know what cannot grow. 
You look so sincere, but you don't know... do you? 

If this was simple it wouldn't be fun. 
If this was easy you'd be anyone. 
And I pick you apart to find what I don't get. 
But maybe the truth is we're just not there yet. 

You only see what you want to see. 
I only hear what I want to hear. 
We only know what cannot grow. 
You look so sincere, but you don't know... do you? 

Now I'm left in an empty bed we've made. 
I'm a fool, I've misused, every word I've said.
You're so blurry as you say "I'm sorry" 
but if you leave, promise me, there's another door
because I still want more. 
You leave me wanting more.

You only see what you want to see. 
I only hear what I want to hear. 
We only know what cannot grow. 
You look so sincere, but you don't know... do you?

Kansas City

COF Performing Arts

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