Shades of Blue Lyrics

Shades of Blue Lyrics

Every relationship we enter into, we bring with us the scars from our past. If you're anything like me, you go into it thinking that you've seen it all. All the ways that another human being can drag you down. Even though I've been through all that hurt and struggle through past people, former acquaintances, former friends, and even experience from the Army, Sometimes you run into that one person who finds all new and creative ways to bring you down to lower levels of contempt and betrayal than you ever knew existed. In other words they show you shades of the blues that you've never seen before.

Shades of Blue

This life is not easy. I’m reminded all the time

From sickness to layoffs to parasite friends, affliction can come in any size

But there’s one thing that I know for certain in everything that I do

In all of my days, I didn’t know there were

So many shades of blue

Until I met you

Ten years of tribulation. The deafening games

Of mental attrition and lurid self-doubt, it’s enough to drive any man insane

Avoiding my phone calls. Icy glares when you’re here

Then starting a fight in the middle of the night, your side of the bed’s colder every year

Cause there’s one thing that you surely show me in everything that you do

In all of my days, I didn’t know there were

So many shades of blue

Until I met you

I was so naive in the beginning

Ignoring all the subtle signs you were sending my way

The blue that I knew as soothing gentle waves has turned into the cold hand of death

So I’ve got to get away

On watch for months at your bedside. Twice when your life was on the line

Wasn’t enough to change your point of view, so looks like it’s time to change mine

Cause there’s one thing that everyone told me in everything that you do

That those shades of blue seem to always point back to you

Oh those shades of blue

Oh they point back to you

I’d never seen those shades of blue

Until I met you