Kevin Ayers

Everybody's Sometime And Some People's All The Time Blues

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It's late in the evening
And the weather is cold
I'm beginning to miss you
But that story's so old
I know I've been knocking
My head on the wall
And I must have been crazy
To leave you at all
Oh yeah, yeah
Strange kind of blues colored moon
Shines in the middle of my room.

Sometimes I'm burning
With a vision so bright
That it brings on the sunshine
In the middle of the night
And all those musical ladies
And the crazed young men
They are trying to make music
Together again? 0h no no
And a strange kind of blues colored moon
Shines in the middle of my room.

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songmeanings On Feb 06, 2012

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andy77white

2023-03-06 01:18:43

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by andy77white

3y ago

This is a song with very straightforward lyrics, but it still conveys a sense of mixed emotions. On the ‘June 1st 1974’ album version Kevin changes the “musical ladies” and “crazed young men” part of the second verse to: “Well we all live for pleasure/ And some find it in pain/ And we all let our treasure/ Slip right down the drain.” So it’s bleaker, and the whole track has got a decidedly eerie feel to it. But it’s still a very beautiful song.

There’s maybe a sense of wonder in there - at how overwhelming those emotions can be. Also a sense that this stuff keeps happening, and there’s nothing we can do about it when it does... he doesn’t call it a Blues song for nothing!

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