Our Days In Kansas - Tullycraft

Did you mean what you said when you told me you missed us

Without reservation, without plans for Christmas

First part was right, the rest wasn’t true

The same goes for me and the same goes for you

Packed my things for the month but it’s not necessary

I told you I’d stay but it’s just temporary

Like swastika girls who fell back on their looks

We relied on the tricks and the recycled hooks

Did you want a response or just someone to edit?

It’s not what you said, it’s the way that you said it

The longshoreman’s daughter, when they spelled her name

Found three chords of brilliance and rode them to fame, all alone

Pep up the formula tonight

You’re not obliged to do us favors

Disenchanted hearts unite

When you and I were candy ravers

Krushchev’s Ekranoplan had failed

Those weeks in August never seem fair

Our love is left to sink or sail

You cut the summer blonde from your hair

A little time is all I need

A disco bloodbath for the ages

The patience left to let it bleed

And a quill to fill the pages

Side streets set ablaze

And all roads lead to maybe

Sometimes I think about those days

Sometimes I wish we’d kept the baby

I don’t know how things could have changed

At the latest

Our days in Kansas wouldn’t last

I never learned the KU fight song

Exchanging poisons from the past

I hadn’t heard from you in so long

And if the moonlight kills the flame

With all the moments we were meant to

You know I’ll tell the world your name

I couldn’t let the world forget you

Things were so much easier back in 1993

I loved you for the first time on that day