My New Favorite Song

I keep hitting repeat on my Ipod when this comes on, and when I say repeat, I mean I listened to it four times in a row on the bus going to class today. There's something about the way Simon & Garfunkel turn the sweetest emotions into sad songs, and make sadness sound like a jaunty tricycle ride, that just has me feeling them right now. I'd never heard "Blues Run the Game" till I borrowed (burned) my brothers' copy of the Columbia Recordings Boxed Set which has "Blues" as a bonus track on "Sounds of Silence. I just can't get enough of this one.

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Blues Run the Game
Written by Jackson C. Frank

Catch a boat to England, baby,
Maybe to Spain,
Wherever I have gone,
Wherever I've been and gone,
Wherever I have gone
The blues have run the game.

Send out for whisky, baby,
Send out for gin,
Me and room service, honey,
Me and room service, babe,
Me and room service
Well, we're living a life of sin

When I ain't drinking, baby,
You are on my mind,
When I ain't sleeping, honey,
When I ain't sleeping, Mama,
When I ain't sleeping
Well you know you'll find me crying

Living is a gamble, baby,
Loving's much the same,
Wherever I have played,
Wherever I throw those dice,
Wherever I have played
The blues have run the game.

Maybe when I'm older, baby,
Someplace down the line,
I'll wake up older,
So much older, Mama,
Wake up older
And I'll just stop all my trying.

Catch a boat to England, baby,
Maybe to Spain,
Wherever I have gone,
Wherever I've been and gone,
Wherever I have gone
The blues, they're all the same.