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Blackberry Way Lyrics
Blackberry Way
Absolutely pouring down with rain
It's a terrible day
Up with a lark
Silly girl I don't know what to say
She was running away
So now I'm standing on the corner
Lost, in the things that I said
What am I supposed to do now-w
(Chorus)
Goodbye Blackberry Way
I can't see you
I don't need you
Goodbye Blackberry Way
Sure to want me back another day
Gone to the park
Overgrowing but the trees are bare
There's a memory there
Boats on the lake
Unattended now, they're all to drown
I'm incredibly down
Just like myself they are neglected
Turn, with my eyes to the wall
What am I supposed to do now-w
(Chorus)
Goodbye Blackberry Way
I can't see you
I don't need you
Goodbye Blackberry Way
Sure to want me back another day
Ooo-black, Ooo-black, ooo-ooo
Ahhh-hhh-hhh
Ooo-black, Ooo-black, ooo-ooo
Ahhh-hhh-hhh
Run for the train
Look behind you for she may be there
Say I think you're the girl
Blackberry Way
See the battlefields of care or sins
Cast to the winds
So full of emptiness without her
Lost in the words that I said
What am I supposed to do now-w
(Chorus – repeat to fade)
Goodbye Blackberry Way
I can't see you
I don't need you
Goodbye Blackberry Way
Sure to want me back another day
Absolutely pouring down with rain
It's a terrible day
Silly girl I don't know what to say
She was running away
Lost, in the things that I said
What am I supposed to do now-w
Goodbye Blackberry Way
I can't see you
I don't need you
Goodbye Blackberry Way
Sure to want me back another day
Overgrowing but the trees are bare
There's a memory there
Unattended now, they're all to drown
I'm incredibly down
Turn, with my eyes to the wall
What am I supposed to do now-w
Goodbye Blackberry Way
I can't see you
I don't need you
Goodbye Blackberry Way
Sure to want me back another day
Ahhh-hhh-hhh
Ooo-black, Ooo-black, ooo-ooo
Ahhh-hhh-hhh
Look behind you for she may be there
Say I think you're the girl
See the battlefields of care or sins
Cast to the winds
Lost in the words that I said
What am I supposed to do now-w
I can't see you
I don't need you
Goodbye Blackberry Way
Sure to want me back another day
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I've always found this song to be lyrically inane and daft; Is 'Blackberry Way' a street or place... How it or why it was ever recorded is as big a mystery as Madonna. I guess the pop landscape is a-brim with such inanities, but even so, thank goodness they disbanded not too long afterwards [due to enormous and unanimous disinterest, no doubt]
@exobscura \r\nYou sound like a barrel of laughs. \r\nWhy is this any more inane than say, Penny Lane or Strawberry Fieds, or Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds or Itchycoo Park? \r\nI could think of many songs way more inane than this one. \r\nThis song was obviously influenced by those songs and its an imaginary place.\r\nYes they disbanded, 2 years later when they decided to form ELO. But they were still popular and having top 10 hits. \r\nHave fun being a miserable curmudgeon.
@exobscura \r\nYou sound like a barrel of laughs. \r\nWhy is this any more inane than say, Penny Lane or Strawberry Fieds, or Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds or Itchycoo Park? \r\nI could think of many songs way more inane than this one. \r\nThis song was obviously influenced by those songs and its an imaginary place.\r\nYes they disbanded, 2 years later when they decided to form ELO. But they were still popular and having top 10 hits. \r\nHave fun being a miserable curmudgeon.
To me this song sounds like it was inspired by Penny Lane and/or Strawberry Fields Forever. Those places may have been real but Blackberry Way is I think imaginary. Its an uplifting song with a catchy chorus and reched number 1 in the Uk, deservedly so.
Obviously this is a song about someone who has had a breakup and is very lost and upset. But the sticking point is the refrain, because it seems as though the singer is talking to a street.
I thought about that, and I think he's saying goodbye to a place that is entwined with his relationship. Maybe Blackberry Way is the street she or they lived on, or a place they went, like a park. And he's saying goodbye to that place because he finds it too painful to be there anymore.
I don't think, "I can't see you, I don't need you" is spoken to the street at all, but to the girl. He's saying he can't bear to run into the girl and he doesn't need her to see her.
At the same time, he's convinced she'll want him back someday. And then he'll return to Blackberry Way.
[Edit: error in my comment, so I fixed it]