Wannabe Blues

Now that I’m warming up

I’ll give you all my tears

Give me an inch and I’ll take

Nine miles off your life

Hours seem to take so long

When somebody sings this way

I’ve never sung the blues

But I’m not scared to try

I’ve never felt anything like this before

Gonna let it roll over me

Mother never taught me how to sing

It’s like she saw it coming even then

All those years and not a single song

Mother how’d you know it would go wrong

Damnit I got heavy