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A Kind Of Blues

from A Kind Of Blues by Joel Van Dijk

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lyrics

I can't get outta bed
I can't move my legs
I'm stuck in my head
I got the blues
and I don't know what to do
I don't wanna sit here crying and looking in the mirror
And wasting my time
No I want to put on my dancing shoes,
I want to go outside and see the sunshine

Cuz everybody has the blues
Sometimes (it's how you deal with it)
It's a kind of blues

I'm motivated by nothing
Got novocaine in my conscious
I rose again from those frozen flames to keep coke in cane in my stomach
That soda making me nauseous
I wrote the rain that won't plummet
My broken slang is one hundred
I know the game it's all token fame
Got flows to sang, got shows to bang, got O's to slang, got foes to change
So I go insane, do the same thing twice
And the same thing happen, no this can't be life
But it is though, i'mma Huxtable living like a Winslow
Uncomfortable, looking out the window
Freedom is like, a vegan asking what beefing is like
We all starving, struggling to prove
So much in the window but nothing in the room
But nintendo, and t.v.
And websites trynna deceive me
It's easy watching the news
It leave me with a different kinda blues
So you stuck with me out here in suck city
Such pity that you might as well flux with me

Cuz everybody has the blues
Sometimes (it's how you deal with it)
It's a kind of blues

I gotta ride with the truth on my shoulder
Feel the rythm of my heart taking over
For the beauty of the soul I'm a soldier
But I won't fight for the new world order
sometimes I get the blues seeing what my brothers do
see what they do to eachother
sometimes I watch the news but they don't tell the truth
so come on sing the blues to me and I will sing my blues to you

It's a kind of blues
It's a kind of blues

credits

from A Kind Of Blues, released December 1, 2012
JVD: Programming, Vox, Rhodes
Bridget Barkan: Vox
Wafeek: Vox
Aloe Blacc: Vox
Leah Hanna King: Vox
Douglas Showalter: Vox, Guitar
Alex Hughes: Vox
Joseph Gonzales: Bass
Ron Avant: Rhodes, Organ
Peter Dyer: Clavinet, Synths
David Olivias: Sax
Randal Fisher: Flute
Te'Amir Sweeney: Conga

Mixed by JVD
Mastered by Adam Berg @ Manifest Music

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Joel Van Dijk Los Angeles, California

Artist * Guitarist * Producer based in Los Angeles with new album "Here Now" coming August 13th

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