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BLUE LABEL

music and lyrics -- B. Buoncuore

Can you catch a dozen colds and sneeze the make?
Or break a cry, swallow your sadness from the sky
Or bake an ice-cube in a heated freezer
Cook the cold, imagine your old
Elbows on the table
Time slots in a blue label

(Refrain):
Souls for sale at discount prices
Hurry fast before life slices
Twenty years as fast as one
And I’ve only seen one sun
Cards are on the table
Between my blue label

(Chorus):
Love for people, respect for human kindness
Goes in either direction, living with anyone’s table
Give me a blue label, give me a blue label

Bleeding bones and ice cream cones
Flavors that justify monetary loans
Play with your brain
On the end of a sign
Sign on the dotted line
But I don’t know of any dotted lines.
I just know someone else under the table.
Bloodshot eyes, in a blue label

(Refrain and Chorus Repeat):

Copyright © 2004 Goodheart Songs/Goodheart Music All rights reserved.


Background on the song:

I actually first wrote this when I was 21 going on 22 years old. So that was back in 1983. The origional demo was recorded using an old reel-to-reel and stereo cassette deck. Played on a Fender Rhodes electric piano. The song was of course reworked on this version.

To the best of my memory, I know I was suffering from a cold accompanied by a fever. The term blue label, just means someone who appears to be down all the time.

The main chorus "Souls for Sale" I believe I heard someone say it somewhere and it struck me as a good song phrase.

This recording that you heard, the main frame of it was recorded around October 2004 and it was recorded on an old casio keyboard. I upgraded a year later to a Yamaha and added the alto saxaphone and guitar.