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”
(Went off the acoustic version, so words may vary slightly)
I learned how to hammer in the burning August sun
I learned how to lie and cheat, how to steel and just how to run
I fell asleep most nights with somebody else's blood on my tongue,
Your tongue
You learned just how to run
But it's just the blues, Mary the blues
Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes
I'm somewhere over the rainbow for you
You learned how to cry in them lonesome September nights
I learned to get by with the dogs and the dirt and the charm of the street
I fell asleep most nights with your pictures right behind my eyes,
Your eyes
The killer and the victim arrive, right at the same time
But it's just the blues, Mary the blues
Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes
I'm somewhere over the rainbow for you
And it's just the blues, Mary the blues
Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes
I'm somewhere over the rainbow for you
The cause for smile, is bright like the ramparts on the 4th of July
And my baby swings like a boxer, and sends her right hooks onto my chin
She cries like a baby (cries like a baby)
And she wears me just like a ring
Cries like a baby (cries like a baby)
And she wears me just like a ring
Learned how to swagger
I Learned how to hold you while your body burned
I Learned how compromise while this whirlwind hurricane turned
We fell asleep most nights with each other's blood on our tongues,
My love
Did you ever just have enough
But it's just the blues, Mary the blues
Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes
I'm somewhere over the rainbow for you
And it's just the blues, Mary the blues
Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes
I'm somewhere over the rainbow for you
And it's just the blues, Mary the blues
Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes
I'm somewhere over the rainbow for you
I learned how to hammer in the burning August sun
I learned how to lie and cheat, how to steel and just how to run
I fell asleep most nights with somebody else's blood on my tongue,
Your tongue
You learned just how to run
But it's just the blues, Mary the blues
Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes
I'm somewhere over the rainbow for you
You learned how to cry in them lonesome September nights
I learned to get by with the dogs and the dirt and the charm of the street
I fell asleep most nights with your pictures right behind my eyes,
Your eyes
The killer and the victim arrive, right at the same time
But it's just the blues, Mary the blues
Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes
I'm somewhere over the rainbow for you
And it's just the blues, Mary the blues
Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes
I'm somewhere over the rainbow for you
The cause for smile, is bright like the ramparts on the 4th of July
And my baby swings like a boxer, and sends her right hooks onto my chin
She cries like a baby (cries like a baby)
And she wears me just like a ring
Cries like a baby (cries like a baby)
And she wears me just like a ring
Learned how to swagger
I Learned how to hold you while your body burned
I Learned how compromise while this whirlwind hurricane turned
We fell asleep most nights with each other's blood on our tongues,
My love
Did you ever just have enough
But it's just the blues, Mary the blues
Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes
I'm somewhere over the rainbow for you
And it's just the blues, Mary the blues
Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes
I'm somewhere over the rainbow for you
And it's just the blues, Mary the blues
Swirling around my head like your dreams in Dorothy's shoes
I'm somewhere over the rainbow for you
Lyrics submitted by xheartbreakerx
Add your thoughts
Log in now to tell us what you think this song means.
Don’t have an account? Create an account with SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. It’s super easy, we promise!
More Featured Meanings
Cajun Girl
Little Feat
Little Feat
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
When We Were Young
Blink-182
Blink-182
This is a sequel to 2001's "Reckless Abandon", and features the band looking back on their clumsy youth fondly.
Blue
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“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.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
the blues mary the blues: i believe is a sequel to Bruce Springsteens thunder road, i think its about an unnamed male character who is infatuated with mary. in thunder road mary and the male character decide to take a chance and search for the promised land, to leave everything behind in the hope of a better future, a fairytale future perhaps but i see the blues mary as a second chapter in that story.
the couple are still searching for the promised land but have hit hard times, he's constantly having to reassure her that its just a bad time and that they will come through it better off, he however is doubting if they ever will find what there looking for, he's starting to see it as a fantasy, "swirling around his head like the dreams in Dorothy's shoes". Is a dream a lie if it don't come true or is it something worse?
In verse one, he's working hard, trying his best to make the life he had promised her, he's learnt many things from this adventure he's undertaken but most of all he's learnt "how to run". Mary on the other hand may not have been the person he had hoped she would have been, she's not happy, she's not trying to make it work and the only thing she has learnt is "just how to run". I think that at this stage there both running in separate directions, he's trying to move forward and carry on running towards his dreams whereas she wants to run away and give up on everything. Were these ever her dreams?
The second verse, mary is lonely, she's crying herself to sleep at night with him working away, working nights and every hour he can to make money, he's still in love with her and expresses' it in a brilliant line "i fell asleep most nights with your pictures right behind my eyes"
Verse three, starts off so optimistic, he's still smiling so much so its compared to the fireworks on the 4th of july, mary on the other hand has changed, there fighting, she's taking her anger out on him and he still has the patience and love for her to take sympathy on her when she's upset afterwards when she "cries like a baby". He feels like he means so little to her now that he is just like an accessory for he, "she wears me just like a ring".
I find the final verse the most interesting, to me it speaks of marriage vows, "i learned to hold you while your body burned" to care for her when she's ill. "i learned how to compromise while the whirlwind hurricane turned" to stand by her even at there worst times. For sickness and in health, for better and for worse.
The underlying tune of amazing grace which plays from the final chorus onwards, repeatings the lines of appreciation for someone "saving a wretch like me", things may not be the best for them but he must have been really unhappy or unfortunate before he met her and regardless of how she acts and how difficult things get he has that motivation to keep running forward for the hope of a better life and never to go back to the life that made him so unhappy.