Barely Knew You Blues
Tell me why should I be feelin' blue?
If he wants to dance with you?
Why should I care 'bout someone I barely knew?
Tell me why should I be feelin' blue?

It's always a quarter to two thirty in the mornin'
When these barely knew you blues strike without warnin'
Bringin' me the smell of your liquored lips
The idle brush of your fingertips

Tell me why should I be feelin' blue?
If he wants to dance with you?
Why should I care 'bout someone I barely knew?
Tell me why should I be feelin' blue?

A careless walk up the stair
Has you comin' back in a starry air
And they always tell me again and again
That true love will win out in the end

And they always tell me again and again
That true love will win out in the end
And they always tell me again and again
That true love will win out in the end
Tell me why should I be feelin' blue?
If he wants to dance with you?
Why should I care 'bout someone I barely knew?
Tell me why should I be feelin' blue?

I'll take this bottle back into my hand
Then I'll beat them and punch them 'til they turn into sand
Petrified into pillars of salt
The cherubs will cry "It's the whiskey's fault"

And they always tell me again and again
That true love will win out in the end
And they always tell me again and again
That true love will win out in the end

Then why haven't I won?
I guess it's somethin' I must've done
I'll lay in the sand, stare up at the sun
Until it's your heart that I've won