Allez Les Blues

(album: Whole Damn Body - 2021)

I pushed your head down
Flat onto the page
I held the weapon
Flat against your face
I remembered the promise
That I had made
And turned the pen back
Back onto myself

So you can stick your words of comfort
And you can take your well wishes too
Singing allez les blues
'Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do
Allez les blues

I know your shape and
I know your size
You are the weight of the concrete boots
That pull me under the tide
And now you're marching on to a different drum
Leaving my body here without a beat
A body drained of all feeling
Could be nothing but a piece of meat

So you can stick your words of comfort
And you can take your well wishes too
We're singing allez les blues
'Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do
Allez les blues
'Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do
Allez les blues

This lump in my throat
Is the knot that you tied
With a flick of your tongue
And a wink of your eye
This lump in my throat
Is the knot that you tied
With a flick of your tongue
And a wink of your eye
This lump in my throat
(I've been sitting sidesaddle on the devil's chair)
Is the knot that you tied
(I've been muddying upholstery, you didn't care)
With a flick of your tongue
(We've been clinking glasses right into the dead of night)
And a wink of your eye
(Yeah, but the fire keeps me warm and keeps my heart alive)
This lump in my throat
(I've been sitting sidesaddle on the devil's chair)
Is the knot that you tied
(I've been muddying upholstery, you didn't care)
With a flick of your tongue
(We've been clinking glasses right into the dead of night)
He burns a fire, keeps me warm
And keeps my heart alive

You pushed my head down
Flat onto the page
You held the weapon
Flat to my face
You remembered the promise
That you would break
But now the bloodline
Runs through my veins

'Cause they hold me closer than you would ever do
Allez les blues
They hold me closer than you would ever do
Allez les blues