Lay There & Hate Me (Live from the Montreal International Jazz Festival)

Lay there and hate me, lay there and burn

One side to the other you toss and turn

Never trust a woman

Never trust a woman who loves the blues

Mistake number one, I made it three times today

We'd best talk over how there's nothing left to say

I feel like an underpaid concubine

Who has overstayed her welcome

You gave me an eight-page letter, front and back

Written in your favorite colors, blood and black

Choose your words as careful as you'd choose your own gravestone

Lay there and hate me, better than being alone

Had to fight your way in, now you got to fight your way out

Ain't no fool like the fool you love so let me hear you shout

Shake down, break down, just can't sit still

You cut off your hair and sold it for your pretty little pill

I've learned, I've learned some things about myself

I wish I didn't know

Then you gave me an eight-page letter, front and back

Written in your favorite colors, blood and black

Choose your words as careful as you'd choose your own gravestone

Lay there and hate me, better than being alone

You had to fight your way in, now you got to fight your way out

Ain't no fool like the fool you love so let me hear you shout

Lay there and hate me, cold as a stone

I just hope it's better than sitting alone

Never trust a woman who loves the blues

Then you gave me an eight-page letter, front and back

Written in your favorite colors, blood and black

Choose your words as careful as you'd choose your own gravestone

Lay there and hate me, better than being alone

You had to fight your way in, now you got to fight your way out

Ain't no fool like the fool you love so let me hear you, let me hear you shout

Let me hear you shout

With your eight-page letter

And your favorite colors, your favorite colors

Blood and black