comfort blues
cowritten with elsemore
Comfort Blues
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When there's mist all up in the mountain
you can't even see the top,
when someone's lying bleeding
you can't nowhere find a cop,
but when your poor heart's broke & hurtin'
you know someday it's bound to stop -
Just got to move all free and easy
over cold & slippery time.
When your hands are weak and shaking
and your head is poundin' hard
and your key don't fit your lock
and your clothes'r all 'round the yard,
don't damn the man 'cross the table
'cause he had the luck to draw your card -
Let the days rain down like lonely words,
for the years to arrange as rhyme.
You never been down to Yellowstone
here the world one day will end
your dreams are like a dark-haired woman
who says she just wants to be your friend,
but somethin'll come along sometime
upon which you can depend -
ain't nothing, you're just on fire,
you got to learn to drop & roll.
You think you'd never get up at all
if you just could go to bed
& that wheel keeps stoppin' on black,
& your chips are all sittin' on red,
don't worry much on it mister
you're only sad in your head -
Dont listen to me, I'm a liar,
but you're happy down in your soul.
Just got to move all free and easy
over cold & slippery time.
Let the days rain down like lonely words,
for the years to arrange as rhyme.
Ain't nothing, you're just on fire,
you got to learn to drop & roll.
Don't listen to me, I'm a liar,
but you're happy down in your soul.
I never was any good at foolin
my friends, let alone my heart
I've been waiting for the next chapter,
waiting for the part
where the bad guy finishes last
and the good guy gets to start
But that only works in Hollywood
where you finally get an end
I'm going to get a little place in the county
old house with a sleeping porch
where i can dream on the long summer days
when all the sun can do is scorch
i'll dig myself a little pond
just deep enough to douse this torch
Carrying water, chopping wood
If I'm not happy, I'll pretend
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