"Didn't Find Nothing In My Blues Song Blues" lyrics
(feat. Esperanza Spalding)
Okay
Language
Seeing as we're here already
Seeing as we're here tonight
I think I'll forgive the last time
You didn't treat me right
Can I have a bite of your macaroni and cheese?
We're even, I guess I'm easy-to-please
See, 'cause last time we went to dinner
I asked if I could have a bite
And you said, "No, honey. This is the, the first meal that I've, that I've had all day and all night."
So, I sat there on the other side and I ate my beans and rice
Then the lady came to clear the table and a-what did I find?
A chicken wing
You let that woman carry that chicken wing to the back and throw it away
After I asked if I could have one and you said, "No"
This what we call "first-world problems"
But I'm processing
This is my blues
I guess it's the equivalent of when you write a grant application and they say, "Oh, no. We can't, we can't afford that."
And I'll be like, "But I just wanna bring twelve singers into the space with like some taiko drums and some aerials and possibly a crane."
I'm hearing something
And they're like, "No"
Then you hear about this European man who does an opera with two hundred sheep
What?
I don't know where this is going, I'm, it's the blues, so I'm just telling you what's on my mind
That's a real thing?
It's a real thing
I've heard of people doing things with sheep, but it definitely wasn't the opera
Yeah, that's a different kind of blues, yeah
Yeah
Anyway
The phenomenon
When you're just asking for a little and you don't even get nothing
Then you see there was extra anyway
Like somebody saving their last piece of gum
And you're like, "But you need it now
So either give it to me or you use it, 'cause one of us needs to have fresh breath, goddamn"
For sure
Didn't even think to split it in half, that would be cooperative
Some people might call that "communism"
Don't you hate when you offer somebody gum when they need it and they say "no"?
That gives me the blues big time
One-hundred percent
'Cause it takes a lot of courage to just out the blue offer somebody if they didn't ask
Exactly, but you have to take one just so they feel comfortable
Just to not make it awkward
You want a piece?
No, you want a piece
I know, Rob
These are issues we face today. You know?
I guess we're doing really well in the jazz world
These are our concerns
This what comes up when we play the blues
Aye-yi-yi
Aye-yi-yi
I-I-I
I-I-I
Often turn out to be the root of why I have the blues
I
Forgot to write down that I said I was gonna have lunch with you tomorrow
I
I guess it was I
Mm
Whoa
Mm
Okay, Robert
Talk about it
Uh-oh
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh
It was a long day, huh?
Mm
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I guess I got that didn't-find-something blues
See, when you're actually improvising, there's a real risk that you might not find anything
People don't know that that's a possibility
And I thought for sure I'd find all kinds of things to sing about tonight
'Cause my heart is heavy for real and my head is full
But looks like it's not one of those times
So I guess the truth be told, I've got that didn't-find-nothin'-in-my-blues-song blues
Didn't-find-nothin'-in-my-blues-song, oh-ah-ah-ah-ah-oh, blues
Language
Seeing as we're here already
Seeing as we're here tonight
I think I'll forgive the last time
You didn't treat me right
Can I have a bite of your macaroni and cheese?
We're even, I guess I'm easy-to-please
See, 'cause last time we went to dinner
I asked if I could have a bite
And you said, "No, honey. This is the, the first meal that I've, that I've had all day and all night."
So, I sat there on the other side and I ate my beans and rice
Then the lady came to clear the table and a-what did I find?
A chicken wing
You let that woman carry that chicken wing to the back and throw it away
After I asked if I could have one and you said, "No"
This what we call "first-world problems"
But I'm processing
This is my blues
I guess it's the equivalent of when you write a grant application and they say, "Oh, no. We can't, we can't afford that."
And I'll be like, "But I just wanna bring twelve singers into the space with like some taiko drums and some aerials and possibly a crane."
I'm hearing something
And they're like, "No"
Then you hear about this European man who does an opera with two hundred sheep
What?
I don't know where this is going, I'm, it's the blues, so I'm just telling you what's on my mind
That's a real thing?
It's a real thing
I've heard of people doing things with sheep, but it definitely wasn't the opera
Yeah, that's a different kind of blues, yeah
Yeah
Anyway
The phenomenon
When you're just asking for a little and you don't even get nothing
Then you see there was extra anyway
Like somebody saving their last piece of gum
And you're like, "But you need it now
So either give it to me or you use it, 'cause one of us needs to have fresh breath, goddamn"
For sure
Didn't even think to split it in half, that would be cooperative
Some people might call that "communism"
Don't you hate when you offer somebody gum when they need it and they say "no"?
That gives me the blues big time
One-hundred percent
'Cause it takes a lot of courage to just out the blue offer somebody if they didn't ask
Exactly, but you have to take one just so they feel comfortable
Just to not make it awkward
You want a piece?
No, you want a piece
I know, Rob
These are issues we face today. You know?
I guess we're doing really well in the jazz world
These are our concerns
This what comes up when we play the blues
Aye-yi-yi
Aye-yi-yi
I-I-I
I-I-I
Often turn out to be the root of why I have the blues
I
Forgot to write down that I said I was gonna have lunch with you tomorrow
I
I guess it was I
Mm
Whoa
Mm
Okay, Robert
Talk about it
Uh-oh
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh
It was a long day, huh?
Mm
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I guess I got that didn't-find-something blues
See, when you're actually improvising, there's a real risk that you might not find anything
People don't know that that's a possibility
And I thought for sure I'd find all kinds of things to sing about tonight
'Cause my heart is heavy for real and my head is full
But looks like it's not one of those times
So I guess the truth be told, I've got that didn't-find-nothin'-in-my-blues-song blues
Didn't-find-nothin'-in-my-blues-song, oh-ah-ah-ah-ah-oh, blues
