Basin Street Blues - Live

Travelin' Blues

Diane Schuur

I've traveled 'cross the country

I've sung with lots of bands

I've played in those big cities

That book those one night stands

I'm lonely and I'm weary

I know the scene so well

The blues have come to get me

And to drag me down to hell

But I keep travelin

What have I got to lose

Yes, I keep travelin

Unravelin all my blues

I check into a hotel

And then forget its name

Yes, I could ask

But oh well aren't all hotels just the same

Sink into the mattress

Pray god my soul to keep

The blues are in the streets

Cries that haunt my troubled sleep

But I keep travelin

What have I got to lose

Yes, I keep travelin

Unravelin all my blues

I wake up every morning

And wonder where I'm at

I look into the mirror

And ask myself who's that

I left behind a good man

A face I can't recall

And yet I love my old man

Like or no man's been loved at all

But I keep travelin

What have I got to lose

Yes, I keep travelin

Unravelin all my blues

I know the blues confuse me

Hold me in their trap

The lead and they lose me

While round my brain they wrap

A web of lonely journeys

All spawned from evil thread

That twist and turn and tangle me

Until my soul is dead

But I keep on travelin

What have I got to lose

Yes, I keep travelin

Tryin to lose all my blues

I guess I gotta hit the road again