Sift one cup folk, one cup R&B, one cup blues, one tablespoon jazz. Mix in spirit of Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, and Greg Brown. Add to taste: dry humor, faith against odds, bloody heartbreak. Bake 5o-some years in hard knocks oven. Add spark of Goddess. Serve with acoustic guitar and baritone vocals.
Story behind the song
I was just feeling a little bit obsessed, but to no purpose. And then this song just burst forth. I really am kind of ashamed of it...
Lyrics
Women Be Gone (Obsession Blues)
Too much trouble with women, individuals and groups
I’m going to stay with the boys, have fun with the troops
I’m going cold turkey, escape from this hex
I won’t dream about women, forget the whole sex
Yeah, right! I know. I’m fighting my fate
I’m so distracted I can’t even lie straight
Cause I been thinking about Nancy, thinking about Sue
Been thinking about women, all except you
Chorus:
Women be gone, get out of my head
Too much obsession, alone in my bed
I just want to be normal and do what I do
Women be gone, and first be gone you
I’m gonna think about carburetors in souped up cars
Gonna think about whiskey, cards, and cigars
Computers and chain saws, football and beer
The boys drown their sorrow in macho and fear
Better think about mathematics, think about the news
If I don’t think about women I’ll get over these blues
I won’t even speak to them, I’ll do completely without
But when I go out with guys, guess what they’re talking about?
Chorus
I see women in dresses, women in skirts
Women in jeans who forgot to wear shirts
Women in factories, women in stores
Women playing football, women mopping floors
Women with flowers, women with guns
Women on horses, harlots and nuns
Women, women, everywhere, show me something new
With all the women in this world, why did I pick you?
Chorus
I dreamed I was cured, I dreamed I was free
On the no-woman planet, just lots of men and me
I stopped looking at bosoms, stopped looking at butts
I never got horny, I never went nuts
No woman could cheat or make a fool out of me
Cause I was already crazy, I was already free
What do women want? I didn’t have a clue
Didn’t give a damn either, finally I was through
Chorus 2:
Women were gone, they were out of my head
No more obsession, alone in my bed
Finally I was normal and I did what I do
Women were gone, except for sometimes I still thought about you
Copyright 2003, Bruce McKinney
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