Lena Blue Songtext
von Liv Warfield

{INTRO:} Drummer: Un, du, tre...
Liv Warfield ("LW"): Well
LW: Sweet Lena...
LW: Hmmm
LW: Lena Blue
LW: Well
LW: Lena
LW: Her skin like butter (shea... ah?)
LW: Just like queen of the 18th Century
LW: Piercing eyes like Diamonds
Background Singers ("BS"): ...diamonds
LW: While sipping that cognac too
BS: Sipping that cognac too
LW: At her (thoughts?) she′s staring out a window, at a neighborhood she used to know
LW: Time is (perciple?) is gone, she only one left to go.
LW: Don't think she′s feeling sorry...
BS: ...sorry
LW: cause loneliness can be hard to hide
BS: ...hard to hide
LW: the pain... Well, she'll cuss you out like a sailor


BS: ...sailor
LW: and then help you wipe those tears away, goo—ood
LW & BS: Everybody's got a Lena Blue, one soul you can′t deny. (Hopes? Holds? Host?) the world upon her shoulders.
LW: That′s why
BS: That's why DNA
Musical interlude LW: Sharin′ stories of old glory and the times
BS: ...and the times
LW: the times that come to pass. She keeps the Bible close in case she needs to pray bout speakin'
BS: Speakin′
LW: Speakin' them secular ways.
BS: Somebody pray please!
LW: She said we ain′t perfect
BS: ...she said... perfect
LW: but I do... I do the best that I can... aww... aww... to be a woman
BS: To be a woman.
LW: To be a woman, in this world and raised up, and raise up, up a man.
LW & BS: (Dupe us? Two puffs?) as she blows out her smoke and she smiles at me
LW: ...and says honey,
LW & BS: Everybody's got a...
LW & BS: Everybody's got a Lena Blue, one soul you can′t deny. Holds the world upon her shoulders
LW: That′s why...
LW & BS: ...that's why DNA.
LW & BS: Everybody′s got a Lena Blue
LW (ad lib): ...oooo yeah.
BS: One soul you can't deny
LW (ad lib): She loves me so much yes she did
BS: Host the world upon her shoulders
LW: Ooooo, it′s all right.
BS: That's why DNA
LW: That′s why DNA oooo oh
BS: Everybody's got a Lena Blue
LW: Everybody's... everybody′s got a
BS: Everybody′s got a Lena Blue
LW: Ooo we love a Lena Blue church
BS: Everybody's got a Lena Blue
LW: Oh she did what she did but cha love her
BS: Everybody′s got a Lena Blue
LW: Yeah
BS: Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue
Musical interludeLW: Talkin' bout... talkin′ bout... talkn' bout... Lena... who she is...
BS: Leeennnaaa
LW: That′s right...
BS: Leeennnaaa