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Epitaph (Black and Blue) Lyrics
Her close friends have gathered,
Lord, ain't it a shame.
Greiving together,
sharing the blame.
But when she was dying,
Lord, we let her down.
There's no use crying,
you can't help her now.
The party's all over.
Drink up and go home.
It's too late to love her,
and leave her alone.
Just say she was someone,
Lord, so far from home.
Who's life was so lonesome,
she died all alone.
Dream pretty dreams,
that never came true.
Lord, why was she born,
so black and blue?
Oh, why was she born,
so black and blue?
Lord, ain't it a shame.
Greiving together,
sharing the blame.
But when she was dying,
Lord, we let her down.
There's no use crying,
you can't help her now.
Drink up and go home.
It's too late to love her,
and leave her alone.
Lord, so far from home.
Who's life was so lonesome,
she died all alone.
that never came true.
Lord, why was she born,
so black and blue?
Oh, why was she born,
so black and blue?
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I've read that he wrote this song about Janis Joplin,after being very despondent over her death and how no one realized how bad off she was.
@ShatteredVinyl Seeing as Kristofferson's s/t debut, on which this song was the closing track, was recorded a year before Joplin died, I'd say that was most unlikely.
@ShatteredVinyl Seeing as Kristofferson's s/t debut, on which this song was the closing track, was recorded a year before Joplin died, I'd say that was most unlikely.
@ShatteredVinyl and @Padje Actually 'The Silver Tongued Devil and I' was released in 1971, the year after Janis Joplin died (October 1970). So it could very much be about Janis Joplin's death.
@ShatteredVinyl and @Padje Actually 'The Silver Tongued Devil and I' was released in 1971, the year after Janis Joplin died (October 1970). So it could very much be about Janis Joplin's death.