Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
(Awful sweet to be a little butterfly
Just swinging over things and nothing deep inside
Nothing going, going wild in you, you know
You're slowing by the riverside, a-floating high and blue)
(Or maybe cool to be a little summer wind
Like once through everything and then away again
With the taste of dust in your mouth all day
But no need to know
Like sadness, you just sail away)
'Cuz you know
I don't do sadness
Not even a little bit
Just don't need it in my life
Don't want any part of it
I don't do sadness
Hey, I've done my time
Lookin' back on it all, man, it blows my mind
I don't do sadness
So been there
Don't do sadness
Just don't care
(Moritz Steephle
Ilse, you frightened me
What are you looking for?
If only I knew
Then what's the use of looking?
I'm on the way home, want to come?
I don't know
God, you remember how we used to run back
To my house and play pirates
Vend LeBergman, Melchior Gabor, you and I?)
Spring and summer
Every other day
Blue wind gets so sad
Blowing through the thick corn
Through the bales of hay
Through the open books on the grass
Spring and summer
Sure when its autumn
Wind always wants to
Creep up and haunt you
When silence got you
If it's heartache well, it's sorrow
Winter wind sings under cries
Spring and summer
Every other day
Blue wind gets so pained
Blowing through the thick corn
Through the bales of hay
Through the sudden drift of the rain
Spring and summer
(Actually I better go
Walk as far as my house with me
I wish I could
Then why don't you?
Eighty lines of virgils, sixteen equations, a paper on the hopsboard)
So maybe I should be some kind of laundry line
Hang their things on me, and I will swing 'em dry
You just wave in the sun through the afternoon and then see
They come to set you free beneath the rising moon
'Cuz you know
Spring and summer
I don't do sadness
Every other day
Not even a little bit
Blue wind gets so lost
Just don't need it in my life
Goin' through the big corn and bales of hay
Don't want any part of it
Spring and summer
I don't do sadness
Every other day
Hey, I've done my time
Blue wind gets so lost
Lookin' back on it all and it blows my mind
Goin' through the big corn and bales of hay
I don't do sadness
The wandering clouds of the dust
So been there, don't do sadness
Spring and summer
Just don't care
Just swinging over things and nothing deep inside
Nothing going, going wild in you, you know
You're slowing by the riverside, a-floating high and blue)
(Or maybe cool to be a little summer wind
Like once through everything and then away again
With the taste of dust in your mouth all day
But no need to know
Like sadness, you just sail away)
'Cuz you know
I don't do sadness
Not even a little bit
Just don't need it in my life
Don't want any part of it
I don't do sadness
Hey, I've done my time
Lookin' back on it all, man, it blows my mind
I don't do sadness
So been there
Don't do sadness
Just don't care
(Moritz Steephle
Ilse, you frightened me
What are you looking for?
If only I knew
Then what's the use of looking?
I'm on the way home, want to come?
I don't know
God, you remember how we used to run back
To my house and play pirates
Vend LeBergman, Melchior Gabor, you and I?)
Spring and summer
Every other day
Blue wind gets so sad
Blowing through the thick corn
Through the bales of hay
Through the open books on the grass
Spring and summer
Sure when its autumn
Wind always wants to
Creep up and haunt you
When silence got you
If it's heartache well, it's sorrow
Winter wind sings under cries
Spring and summer
Every other day
Blue wind gets so pained
Blowing through the thick corn
Through the bales of hay
Through the sudden drift of the rain
Spring and summer
(Actually I better go
Walk as far as my house with me
I wish I could
Then why don't you?
Eighty lines of virgils, sixteen equations, a paper on the hopsboard)
So maybe I should be some kind of laundry line
Hang their things on me, and I will swing 'em dry
You just wave in the sun through the afternoon and then see
They come to set you free beneath the rising moon
'Cuz you know
Spring and summer
I don't do sadness
Every other day
Not even a little bit
Blue wind gets so lost
Just don't need it in my life
Goin' through the big corn and bales of hay
Don't want any part of it
Spring and summer
I don't do sadness
Every other day
Hey, I've done my time
Blue wind gets so lost
Lookin' back on it all and it blows my mind
Goin' through the big corn and bales of hay
I don't do sadness
The wandering clouds of the dust
So been there, don't do sadness
Spring and summer
Just don't care
Lyrics submitted by manprettys_panties
Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind Lyrics as written by Duncan Sheik Steven Sater
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Awful sweet to be a little butterfly Just wingin' over things and nothing deep inside Nothing going, going wild in you, you know You're slowing by the riverside or floatin' high and blue Or maybe cool to be a little summer wind Fly once through everything and then away again With the taste of dust in your mouth all day But no need to know like sadness You just sail away 'cause you know
I don't do sadness Not even a little bit Just don't need it in my life Don't want any part of it I don't do sadness Hey, I've done my time Looking back on it all Man, it blows my mind I don't do sadness
So been there Don't do sadness Just don't care
[Ilse and Moritz dialog] [Ilse's Blue Wind solo] [Ilse and Moritz dialog]
So maybe I should be some kind of laundry line Hang their things on me and I will swing 'em dry You just wave in the sun through the afternoon and then see They come to set you free Beneath the rising moon 'Cause you know
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It's about him thinking of all the different things he could be when he dies. He sticks with Summer Wind, I do believe, and Melchior makes a reference to the summer with a wind it's not known yet aka moritz.