“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
Payne Avenue lives up to its name
Some nights it's painful and strange
The whole city seemed sane in the day
But some nights it seems distressed and deranged
The east side's where we met with those guys
That said they'd get us high, but that changed
Now they're down in the basement
And they're bashing out his brains
Kids are getting cut up with the motorcycle chains
And St. Paul had it all when we called
And they were maxing out on medicine
Shaved head and the blood on the bed
And those guys you recognize, they got the same tattoos as Gideon
Strong stuff and she had more than enough
And she was slumping over smiling and sailing off with cherubim
The cityscape skins are kinda kicking it again
They're gonna show these kids some discipline
Gideon's been living up in Bay City, Michigan
And he's been working at the Michelin
He got messed up with some messed up magicians
We got so high some nights Michigan looked just like a mitten
Some nights we got fried
Strung out on residuals and visuals and laser shows
Reach into the speaker and try to hold on to the quarter notes
I always dream about a unified scene
I always dream about a unified scene
Hey, there's James King and there's King James and that's James Dean
At a table in the corner of my unified scene
They want a double order of love and respect
They said they just got back from up in Hostile, Massachusetts
And girl, I've seen your friend, she looks nothing like Jada Pinkett
I think you got something in those cigarettes
Gideon was living up in South Minneapolis
He was the cowboy on the crosstown bus
And all the little phillies at the Yukon Club
Are gunning for the goldrush
We got tangled in electrical fences
We got wrapped up in the Indian fringes
All the little phillies at the Yukon Club
Are gunning for the goldrush
Yeah, they just can't get enough
Some nights it's painful and strange
The whole city seemed sane in the day
But some nights it seems distressed and deranged
The east side's where we met with those guys
That said they'd get us high, but that changed
Now they're down in the basement
And they're bashing out his brains
Kids are getting cut up with the motorcycle chains
And St. Paul had it all when we called
And they were maxing out on medicine
Shaved head and the blood on the bed
And those guys you recognize, they got the same tattoos as Gideon
Strong stuff and she had more than enough
And she was slumping over smiling and sailing off with cherubim
The cityscape skins are kinda kicking it again
They're gonna show these kids some discipline
Gideon's been living up in Bay City, Michigan
And he's been working at the Michelin
He got messed up with some messed up magicians
We got so high some nights Michigan looked just like a mitten
Some nights we got fried
Strung out on residuals and visuals and laser shows
Reach into the speaker and try to hold on to the quarter notes
I always dream about a unified scene
I always dream about a unified scene
Hey, there's James King and there's King James and that's James Dean
At a table in the corner of my unified scene
They want a double order of love and respect
They said they just got back from up in Hostile, Massachusetts
And girl, I've seen your friend, she looks nothing like Jada Pinkett
I think you got something in those cigarettes
Gideon was living up in South Minneapolis
He was the cowboy on the crosstown bus
And all the little phillies at the Yukon Club
Are gunning for the goldrush
We got tangled in electrical fences
We got wrapped up in the Indian fringes
All the little phillies at the Yukon Club
Are gunning for the goldrush
Yeah, they just can't get enough
Lyrics submitted by stellaluna1125
Sweet Payne Lyrics as written by Tad Jason Kubler Craig Finn
Lyrics © Reservoir Media Management, Inc.
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St. Paul is an apostle in the New Testamenant that philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche called the Anti-Christ and Thomas Jefferson called him a biblical corrupter, but it is also a city in Michigan and the state capital of Minnesota, the origin of the band,
Cherubim may be refering to the order of angel who gives the gift of knowledge (old testament),
residuals could mean the remainders of drugs, like cleaning the resin out of the bowl and smoking it.
skins of course refer to skinheads (neo-nazis),
gideon means "destroyer" or "mighty warrior" and appears in the Book of Judges in the Bible and the Epistle to the Hebrews, which was said to have been written by St. Paul, he is seen to rescue Israel by turning everyone to stop worshipping false idols,
James King was a Scottish soldier who supported King Charles I in the English civil war, and King James suceeded Charles I.
Whoa...I think this guy is a history/catholicism major or something. This song reminds me of meeting sketchy characters and my drugged out nights in my late high school and early college years.