Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive

I'll never get out these blues alive

I'll never, I'll never, get out with these blues alive

All a-my life, I been doomed with the blues

I'm drinkin' black coffee and smokin' cigarettes

I'm drinkin' black coffee and smokin' cigarettes all night

I know I'll never, I'll never come outta these blues alive

(Tell everybody now, Van)

Never, never, come outta these blues alive

(No, you won't)

If I live to be a hundred

(That's Van Morrison)

I don't think I ever will

I can't understand, just exactly why

I can't understand now, just exactly why

All I know, same thing every day

You turn on the radio

Hear the same thing every day

You read a paper

You hear the same thing, every day

I don't know why has to be this way

I don't know whyPeople tell ya, that change is gonna come

Everybody tell you, some change is gonna come

I've been through the third degree

You know what I'm talkin' about

Uh, uh

Nothin', nothin', nothin'

I know I'll never, I know I'll never

Get outta these blues for life

L'lI, never, (never, never) never

Come outta the blues, for life

I'm doomed (doomed?)

I'm doomed

I'm doomed with the blues, til I die

Yeah, yeah

Now Van, I'm drinkin' black coffee

[Van]: Drinkin' black coffee?

I started smokin' cigarettes all night

I can't sleep, I can't eat

There is no use of me layin' down

No-no, no-no-no, no-no

Now, Van Morrison, he asked me

He says, 'Johnny, why, why do you sing the blues?'

I say, 'I know I'm doomed, I'm doomed'

But all I know

I sing the blues both night an day

I'll never, neve, come out alive yeah, alrightYeah

Yeah

Ooo

Ooo-ooo-ooo

I'm walkin' the floor all night long

Jumpin' over my bed

Jumpin' (jumpin') over my bed (over my bed)

I can't sleep (I can't sleep)

What the use? (can't sleep)

Or lay down (lay down)

Oh no (in a room)

Ooo-ooo, I got the blues (got the blues)

Got the blues

Got the blues, ha-ha, I got 'em (got the blues)

Ooo-ooo (can't sleep)

Ooo-no, no-no, what the use?

Ooo-ooo

(Never, never) oh, come out the blues

(Get out of these) blues alive (blues alive)

Oh no

(Never, never, never, never) yeah why?

Uh (get out of these) blues alive

No, no

Ooo (born with the blues)

(Stay with you all your life)I'm walkin' the floor all night

My baby gone, says she won't be back no more

(No more)

And that' why (look out in the street)

Ooo-ooo-ooo

(I can't find) oh (I can't find my baby)

Nowhere