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All I Want (Is To Sing The Blues)

from Someone Else's Blues by Sam Steffen

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All I Want (Is To Sing the Blues) copyright 2014 Sam Steffen

I don’t want to say I’m sorry
I don’t want to make it better
I don’t want to tell you I was wrong
I don’t want to be a grown-up
I don’t want to write no letter
I don’t want to show you I can be strong
All I want is to be left alone
For to lick my wounds and nurse my bruise
To get old quickly and remain unknown
But to sing—the blues

I don’t want to listen to ya
I don’t want to be there for ya
I don’t want to reach out no helpin hand
I don’t want to hear what you think
I don’t want to owe you nothing
I don’t want no one to understand
All I want is to be sent on home
For my behavior to remain unexcused
To reap far less than what I have sewn
But to sing—the blues

I don’t want to keep my voice down
I don’t want to hold my head up
I don’t want to play the game no more
I don’t want to hold my tears in
I don’t want to keep from hurting
I don’t want it to go on like before
All I want is to roll my stone
To know my fate ain’t mine to choose
To lose my joy along with all I own
But to sing—the blues

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from Someone Else's Blues, released April 2, 2014

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Sam Steffen Boise, Idaho

Sam Steffen is a Pennsylvania-bred, Boise-based singer-songwriter whose songs are the torch-wood for a new generation of folk music that has learned from the best stuff in the tradition and aims in spite of everything to keep the human spirit alive and kicking. A versatile musician and skilled finger-picker, Sam is at heart a story-teller, and a prolific one. ... more

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