(A) the blues you get when love dies

 - OR -

(B) the blues that are all too often associated with love and/or the death of love are finally dead and you can now love and live again

This here 'Death of Love's Blues' number 10 is definitely concerned with the (B) option. Ohhhhhh yes, it fucking izzzzzzzzz...

          ❤youarebeautifulbaby❤

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Beautiful girl

            breathing

          like a bird

        about to fly

             from

          the wire

       seeps electricity

              into

        wings + eyes

                       pounding

         drums + blood

    Do your arms remember 

             seeing the blade

                 fly 

      across the rhythm

          I feel

        around for a lover

          who won't die

                when

           I slip inside

                      myself

           to prove something

                      to

               this world

          like

                   you want ?

                      to be ?

                                         love

                     not

            a  black  heart  dying

                        for

                      a  kiss

              there is more to all

                                   this

                             than

                         just this

                             if I come across

                                    to leave

                                         or

                                  go around

                                          to stay

                           I hope

                      you will smile

                           in

                the Sun's stabbing ray

         I just don't want to

                   let you

              down

         but I dream

            of the deserts I'll lie in

                   that hate

               I will kill

           crawling over oceans

               that trap

           your skin

       more than I long to

                        touch

            when

        it's lonesome     cold

                    fire

               will travel

                           through

                                    your soul

              So float

                       sing

                         +

                      dream

                   Let go...

                       Let go...

                           Let go...

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~ Crazy Head Girl/Boy Blues ~

Bed bugs bite my body for every kiss I steal

Scratching at skin for every good time I can feel

Yeah, I'm feeling it

Though sometimes it's a stretch

Just staring down a life inside a heart that beats with death

And I see her innocence and pills

All bottled up in dreams

To tear away the pain of hammers pounding on the beams

That hold her face together 

And make her smile brave

A soul out on a lonely road

Is all I gotta save

Crazy head girl blues

She don't mean no harm

Crazy head boy blues

I don't mean no harm

Just a slave in shining armor

Driving her around

Rainbows in the sky

Sunflowers in the ground

Sucking on my finger

As I'm jerking at those chains

That keep it all together

In hopes and prayers and stains

Yeah, she's knocking on that wood

As I'm feeling up that moan

Can't get no closer

Can't

Go

Home

And over the mountains

I know what I'll find

Long ago I caught the train

that wails inside her mind...

Where love and fear do battle

Where booze stumbles through the gates

Thinking, "I'm gonna get her"

The Devil sets the bait

On tears to dry

and grace to fall

And a real man to fill her belly

No wayward beautiful stinker

Making her all smelly

In a bed or in a car

In a long embrace

In back porch beers to end the night

And ride out the chase

That starts and stops and tries to go

And cares nothing about lost miles

The only thing that matters

Is when she looks at me

and smiles

Crazy head girl blues

She don't mean no harm

Crazy head boy blues

I don't mean no harm

Too sick to be her lover

Well oughta be her friend

My tongue to hell 

Her lips to freeze

The stars still spell the end

But the cosmos are dyslexic

Yeah, the Sun going strong 

As beauty grinds its' teeth and grins

At all that has gone wrong

Like lavender at bedtime 

A locked and loaded jaw

A look-see through a nightgown 

And a licking for that saw

Crazy head girl blues

She don't mean no harm

Crazy head boy blues

I don't mean no harm

So I made luv with her corset 

while a drunken jack-o-lantern claimed her soul

And scared me out of sleeping

with the rest of the demons 

down that dirty hole

Holding darkness good to laugh at

And dying worth the pain

And Love that shines 

And hearts that cry

Until madness sings again

Singing...

Crazy head girl blues

She don't mean no harm

Crazy head boy blues

I don't mean no harm

Yeah!

Crazy head girl blues

She don't mean no harm

Crazy head boy blues

I don't mean no harm

No, I don't mean no harm

No, I don't mean no harm

No, I don't mean no fucking harm!

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  ~ It's Very Tempting ~

Chorus:

It's very tempting 

To ask you to stay

Since you're coming back tomorrow

Anyway

And it's very tempting

To ask you to go

Since we are what we are

And we know what we know...

Where will you lead me

With your sweet acid heart

Will you make me starve

Or lose precious sleep

Will you make me 

Your art

Can you 

just 

stop 

your eyes

from seeing 

through your head

Can you feel how I want to live

Past everything that's dead to us

Don't ever die to me

Don't ever die to me

Don't lie to me

Don't ever die to me... CH

Do you know that you're beautiful

Even after you sing

Do you know all I can give you

Is what you choose to bring

Hate is just a bunch of chains

And did you know?

You're free

Don't make me have to hurt you

And, please...

Don't

Hurt

Me... CH