I WRITE THE BRUISE
I write the Blues so dark they bruise nobody wants to sing them anyhow
Next time I write the Blues so dark they bruise nobody wants to sing them
anyhow (I’m fucked) safely alone dressed for work in my pain room
It hurts like hell it hurts like the devil how dare I tell my doctor
It hurts like hell it hurts like the devil how much dare I tell
got me a pain room lay down my blues so dark they bruise
Forget about anything every day making notes so hard
play solo tone baritone sax sax sax what do I say Listen
My blues so dark hide bruises under sleeves in. the sleaves
Circle my blues draw out my knife and hammer
smack my blues so dark upside my head
slice my blues …
I cannot finish these blues
I can’t write my blues so dark nobody to sing them
Too dark to see too dark to see
Nothing to see these blues have spread
So dark so dark so dark sing sing sing
Shit in the sack sing him so
So much to sing so hard so blue
The sack wouldn’t have opened
And left you lying in this hospital shit
And screaming and screaming
Using every muscle to scream
They covered their earsd and ran around
I pulled on my restraints I screamed and screamed
Until one of the few understood why I was singing
screaming the bruise so hard nobody would
sing the hospital so blue unless something was wrong
go figure why it should take so long
Like this the good nurse showed him the light
make it go on and they will help you
just push the button down with your thumb
you can do that I stopped my screaming
That’s all? That’s all just push the button
push the button harder unto; you can see the lighy
there, you see, there you go here come the
new shift nurses they will help yup won’t they
They nodded and lifted him heavenward
scooching the filthy super pads up from under
him and he whimpered and caught his breath
nearly an hour it took to make him clran
laid back down in his clean white sheets
the gratitude for being shown the light
was worth a million dollars
was worth a million dollars