Dems Blues

Throw dem blues off
in a can
Run in the other direction
fast as wind
Don't let them catch up
Dem blues
Dem blues
Dem blues


All down in my shoes
Got everything to loose
Ain’t got nuthin but my life
that I really wanna give up soon…
On anotha day
If I could convince my lobe
to meet my breast half way
I would sing cause I can’t find
my sassy track to do it
Too low down
It's those back slidin
Go tell it on the mountain blues

Grasp of my last pay check
They didn’t even let me work
through the day
Told me to move
Carry them brown boxes with you
Ain’t got no place for pictures no more
Held up with pin cushion
Workin spores
Catching dust and trays on fours
Think I got something else
I could works towards
I’m still walkin on two
Ain’t low enough yet
Still favoring lil bit
Hinging on chartreuse

I’m smart with an almost degree
Don’t know what I was thinkin
There is more to latch onto
If I raise my chin then I can peek
Won’t be in my own way
If I can’t climb it won’t be on me
I’m gone get up on a tall hill
Tuck every dream ever been had
under one arm for the ride firmly
Ball them nasty thangs up in
my other fist and shoot
Presently violetta...
Gone like Leroy James be
Over that college roof
Tha---rowin dem low down
back sliding
quick rising
Go tell it on the mountain
ba----lues


but they gone lose




Mandika's Line 2009