Come Back To Topeka

Come Back To Topeka
Lyrics by David Williams Russell
Music and Arrangement by Bayard Russell
c2009

B-bot: "This is a song was co-written by me and my father called Come Back To Topeka. Or rather, my dad wrote all the words and we set it to music."

J-bot: "This is literally a minute after Bayard played it for us for the first time. The camera was resting on Luca's amp and those particularly loud notes have not lent themselves easily to being toned down in post-production processing..."

Lyrics:
Come Back to Topeka
(A ballad)

If you came out to Topeka
You could come up to my room,
Pull our heads down near my speakers.
Let our memories take us home.
If you came back here to see me
And you stayed more than a day,
We could build ourselves a tepee
We could tent ourselves away.
There are many miles between us.
We have grown so far apart.
Together we could dream us
We could make another start.
All our friends are strange and scattered.
By the winds of time and snows,
But it seems we must have mattered
O so many years ago.
Though you left me still a seeker
All my thoughts of us remain.
Come to see me in Topeka
Maybe you wont leave again.

- David Williams Russell

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Rehearsal
• Ballad
• Topeka