The First Thing
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๐ Lyrics
The first thing for somebody... to realize,
That wants to know what the blues is,
Is-- the first thing they gotta realize is that everybody have 'em.
Cute lil' baby, soon as he comes out, out of mama, man, has the blues.
Y'know, it's not a matter of not havin' the blues,
Or not knowin', it's a matter of not recognizing, y'know, what it is.
It's just like we think that, y'know,
Just because somebody's got ten million dollars, they're happy.
I can't prove this, but this is how I figure.
If prison ain't the blues, man, I don't know what is.
Know, there've been times when I've just been... y'know,
Just down, like they say, so far, can't see where up is at.
You don't know what to do with it, you can't...
Hold on to it inside forever or you'll figure it'll bust you apart,
You can't... let go of it to anybody, because... uh,
It-- that won't necessarily do any-- y'know, fix the problem.
Sometimes a man's got to cry. But they been brung up to think,
"Man ain't s'posed to cry,
He ain't a man or something",
So he takes his guitar, an' he just kinda...
While he's got this, this thing makin' noise, it give him company,
Y'know. it can say things that
Sometimes, it's a little hard to get out in words.
When he's real lonely, he take that guitar...
An' he can't make it say words,
But he can make it say a whole lot of different things.
An' guitar can't... it can only talk to you if you make it talk.
It can be like that sometimes.
Even if no other human being is listenin' to you, you can.
Open up that pressure valve, y'know,
And get all that garbage out, sometimes it make a man feel better.
Y'know, it's just about the music...
I believe that.
But I mean, this is what the blues is.
Sometimes, it's... a very good thing to... have the blues.
Y' have to, uh... take the sour with the sweet.
Okay friend,
Come on in an' I'll play you some music an' we'll talk about it.
The awesomeness. y'know, the-- the, uh, the awe-struck-ness.
There're people that hafta look in the dictionary to find out what
Blues means that has... more blues than I want.
Jesus Christ had the blues. Big time.
Beyond all the land an' sea an' sky, there's blues.
That's truth. Y'know, that's in the book, man, that's where it is.
That wants to know what the blues is,
Is-- the first thing they gotta realize is that everybody have 'em.
Cute lil' baby, soon as he comes out, out of mama, man, has the blues.
Y'know, it's not a matter of not havin' the blues,
Or not knowin', it's a matter of not recognizing, y'know, what it is.
It's just like we think that, y'know,
Just because somebody's got ten million dollars, they're happy.
I can't prove this, but this is how I figure.
If prison ain't the blues, man, I don't know what is.
Know, there've been times when I've just been... y'know,
Just down, like they say, so far, can't see where up is at.
You don't know what to do with it, you can't...
Hold on to it inside forever or you'll figure it'll bust you apart,
You can't... let go of it to anybody, because... uh,
It-- that won't necessarily do any-- y'know, fix the problem.
Sometimes a man's got to cry. But they been brung up to think,
"Man ain't s'posed to cry,
He ain't a man or something",
So he takes his guitar, an' he just kinda...
While he's got this, this thing makin' noise, it give him company,
Y'know. it can say things that
Sometimes, it's a little hard to get out in words.
When he's real lonely, he take that guitar...
An' he can't make it say words,
But he can make it say a whole lot of different things.
An' guitar can't... it can only talk to you if you make it talk.
It can be like that sometimes.
Even if no other human being is listenin' to you, you can.
Open up that pressure valve, y'know,
And get all that garbage out, sometimes it make a man feel better.
Y'know, it's just about the music...
I believe that.
But I mean, this is what the blues is.
Sometimes, it's... a very good thing to... have the blues.
Y' have to, uh... take the sour with the sweet.
Okay friend,
Come on in an' I'll play you some music an' we'll talk about it.
The awesomeness. y'know, the-- the, uh, the awe-struck-ness.
There're people that hafta look in the dictionary to find out what
Blues means that has... more blues than I want.
Jesus Christ had the blues. Big time.
Beyond all the land an' sea an' sky, there's blues.
That's truth. Y'know, that's in the book, man, that's where it is.