Damien Jurado Kansas City song lyrics

Kansas City, I hold back my tears

I know that I should have been thrilled

I can't smile, knowing all the while

Everything you did, you did for you

Kansas City, you ask me how I've been

I lie and then say that I've been fine

Words that trailed off, as is far as we got

I know that I should have been thrilled

Kansas City, I am not her son

I belong to my mother who's now gone

Always left to leave that's why he has returned

I know I should have been thrilled

Kansas City, thanks for your concern

I will learn to get back on my own

Orphaned by my stake, call him by his name

I know someday I will return

I know someday I will return

I know someday I will return

I know someday I will return

I know someday I will return

I know someday I will return