"Light Blues" lyrics

"Light Blues"

What's the matter with you?
What's the matter with you?
What's the matter with you?
What's the matter with you?
A-what's the matter with you?
What's the matter with you?
(What's the matter with you?)
What's the matter with you?
What's the matter with you?
What's the matter with you?
I want you to come out to play
You should feel great
Look at all the stuff you got going for you
What's the matter with you?
What's the matter with you?
What's the matter with you?
What's the matter with you?
What's the matter with you?
What's the matter with you?

Well, it's not really heavy
Hard to understand
It isn't that I really wouldn't like to
It's just that I got to work it out myself
Leave me alone with my light blues
My light blues

Well, it's not that I don't give a damn, 'cause I do
I wonder what I have got a right to
I just need a little time to myself
To help me get over my light blues

Well, I went for a drive in my beat up '55
Then I took up on the ways to park her
All of a sudden I had to get out
'Cause the blues started, started gettin' darker

Well, I'd really like seeing you some other time
Any other time but tonight
You would know what I mean if you'd seen what I've seen
Under a case of the light blues

Oh, don't you feel the same way that I'm feeling now?
Don't you have a day to ponder with your blues?
It's something that I got to figure out myself, honey
Leave me alone with my light blues

I had me a woman to work my body dry
Then I found I could no longer keep her
Then all of a sudden I had to get out
'Cause the blues start to, start to get deeper

Call me another time, drop me another line
I'm gon' be up, see what I might do
Not tonight though, it wouldn't feel right
I'm dealing with another shade of the light blues
The light blues
I'm bathing under the shade of the light blues
The light blues
Light blues
Light blues
Light blues
Light blues


Writer(s): John Magnin Goodwin
album: "Slow Magic, 1977-1978" (2025)
Jeff Bridges - Slow Magic, 1977-1978 album cover
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(Instrumental)
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