• Track: Kansas City
• Artist: The New Basement Tapes
• Album: Lost on the River
• Year: 2014

The tracks on Lost on the River were written by Bob Dylan in 1967. The artists comprising The New Basement Tapes recorded dozens of Dylan tracks at the direction of T Bone Burnett. On Kansas City, Dawes vocalist Taylor Goldsmith takes the lead, singing plaintively about a withering love left in the dust on the way to Kansas City. If you like folk blues with a clear Dylan bent, then Kansas City is worth a spin.

 Lyrics:

I listen to you time and time again
While you tell me just what’s right
And you tell me a thousand things a day
Then sleep somewhere’s else at night
I’m going back to Kansas City

And I love you dear, but just how long
Can I keep singing the same old song
And I love you dear, but just how long
Can I keep singing the same old song
I’m going back to Kansas City

And you call me to come, then I do
And you say you made some mistake
You invite me into your house
Then you say you gotta pay for what you break
I’m going back to Kansas City

And I love you dear, but just how long
Can I keep singing the same old song
And I love you dear, but just how long
Can I keep singing the same old song
I’m going back to Kansas City

Gypsy woman, you know every place I go
Even a thousand miles away from home
You don’t care if I’m asleep or I’m awake
This fickle heart just turn to stone
I’m going back to Kansas City

And I love you dear, but just how long
Can I keep singing the same old song
And I love you dear, but just how long
Can I keep singing the same old song
I’m going back to Kansas City

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