Like salt in a wound, the lavender blues
Stings then it hangs like a cloud over you
Disguised as a muse, a perennial ruse
Under the covers, of the lavender blues
Lavender blues, lavender blues
When you ain't got nothing
Ya ain't got nothing to lose
Get a place by the ocean, a room with a view
You want a connection, so you slip off your shoes
One toe in the water, searching for clues
Soon you are drowning, in the lavender blues
Lavender blues, lavender blues
Stranger than fiction, stranger than truth
Lavender blues, sweet lavender blues
When you ain't got nothing
Ya ain't got nothing to lose
Ya got teeth like a python, bite marks with a bruise
Wrapped all around you, ya tighten the screw
As you fade into nothing, awake but confused
No you're not dreaming, it's just the lavender blues
Lavender blues, lavender blues
Stranger than fiction, stranger than truth
Lavender blues, sweet lavender blues
When you ain't got nothing
Ya ain't got nothing to lose
Lavender blues, lavender blues
Stranger than fiction, stranger than truth
Lavender blues, sweet lavender blues
When you ain't got nothing