You ain't never been blue; no, no, no, You ain't never been blue, Till you've had that mood indigo. That feelin' goes stealin' down to my shoes While I just sit here and sigh, "Go 'long blues". I always get that mood indigo, Since my baby said goodbye.

But I had no idea what a good time would cost Till last night when I sat and talked with you Time was once just a clock to me And life was just a book a biography Success was something you just had to be And I would spend myself unknowingly And you know

I don't want to hear any more You don't need to tell me it's over I've been here before I won't ask you to stay I won't stand in your way It's not the first time That I've had the sense that something's wrong But I'm old enough to know That things don't

Stand your ground Don’t let the bastards grind you down Be bold, be strange Don’t let their fears make you afraid Yesterday I told my sons, "Sometimes the bad guys win" And that it made me scared about the world that we live in But I had to reassure them

Hey what ever happened to waiting your turn Doing it all by hand, 'cause when everything is handed to you It's only worth as much as the time put in It all just seems so good the way we had it Back before everything became automatic Quarter in a payphone

That the worst is yet to come Well, I got a bad, bad feelin' Woke up this mornin', wrong side of the bed Had a heavenly night, you know, I'm feelin' it in my head Lord have mercy, and the day ain't even begun Didn't get no breakfast, didn't get no lunch

My daddy had a Pontiac on the beiger side of yellow He was a young man then and I was a little fella I'd play in that bench back seat and listen to the songs get sung He couldn't carry a tune in a bucket but he'd sing at the top of his lungs Carry On My

There's nothing I can say There's nothing we can do now And every time you try Goodnight, travel well The unknown distance to the great beyond Stares back at my grieving frame To cast my shadow by the holy sun My spirit moans with a sacred pain

You're gonna miss me when I'm gone Miss Atomic Bomb Racing shadows under moonlight And for a second there we'd won You were standing with your girlfriends in the street Falling back on forever, I wonder what you came to be I was new in town, the boy with

What's wrong with being, what's wrong with being What's wrong with being confident? So you say I'm complicated That I must be outta my mind But you had me underrated Rated, rated (Are you ready? Ha) It's time for me to take it I'm the boss right now