Don't Be Blue

from Songs from the Spare Room, Vol. 1 by Justin Parson

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Don't be blue, baby. I've heard news that maybe the sunshine will break through the rain. Don't be blue, baby. This might sound crazy, but pleasure don't come without pain.

So I'm painting blood on the doorpost to frighten away all the bad ghosts. They're the difference in all shades of gray. They're the nighttime that follows the day.

(Chorus)

Darkly the looking glass shines the brightest and darkest of time. If you take all the darkness away, you're left with a lifetime of day.

(Chorus)

In the thirty years you will write her that the black night made the morning sun brighter and weep for the joy and the pain and wash off that blood-colored stain

(Chorus)

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from Songs from the Spare Room, Vol. 1, released August 20, 2010
Justin Parson - all instruments and vocals

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