"the blues must die" genre: AAA/Adult Alternative
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	live solo acoustic performance from the prism-charlottesville, VA(
	Credits: mememe
	Story Behind the Song what if there were no blues? would the world be a better place?= Lyrics i'll tell you all a story that never made the news it's about a man whose plan it was to kill the blues the songs were so depressing & he didn't like to cry so it was his opinion that the blues must die he'd bust it like a junkie, maybe hang it like a con spank it like a monkey he'd go to mississippi where he'd heard the blues was born down around the delta in the early morn where he'll hear the blues a howlin'…callin' out his name & for a minute, he'll forget about the reason that he came 'cause it hits him like a speedball & he digs it like a grave he kinda likes the one about a man betrayed but then he drops it like a habit…burns it like a stump shoots it like a rat down at the city dump goodbye stormy monday…there'll be brighter days ahead the world wakes up to find out that the blues is dead harmonicas go silent…several guitar licks are banned universal happiness is finally at hand suddenly musicians find they cannot piss & moan they take to playin' poker once the blues is gone now, in washington (the city), the president proclaims a law against self-pity…& personal complainin' soldiers drop their weapons & bombs are all defused every man's a brother once there's no more blues childrens mind their parents & husbands love their wives the families come together for a perfect life unemployment plunges…jubilation reigns blessed is a world that doesn't wallow in its pain now, you'll always have your skeptics, your crackpots & your kooks who'll tell you that the blues can actually be quite therapeutic that they're more than just a bad dream…more than just a curse they may not be up-lifting, but the consequence is worse they'll tell you how it's dangerous to hold it all inside how some folks got a place to run, but no place they can hide you got a right to cry for mercy when you're lost & all alone from timbuktu to jersey, baby, the blues will bring you home he knew that all these changes wouldn't take place overnight & worried what might happen should the skeptical be right he was smart enough to realize his plan was fairly flawed, what with most the people worshipping a vengeful god who would make them kneel before him & then kick 'em while they're down where're they gonna turn if there's no blues around see, we all are god's step-children…we all are his disgrace as long as there's this misery, then we might as well embrace it yeah, we might as well embrace it don't kill the blues don't kill the blues, boy

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