Blue Chair Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Now it's just you and me, my blue friend
And you say that it's you that she's thinking of
And our affair must end
But if it's you that she's thinking of
I think my broken heart might mend

[Chorus]
When it's my turn to talk, your turn to think
Your turn to buy, my turn to drink
Your turn to cry and my turn to sink
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue chair

[Verse 2]
Now I've made up my mind, I've made my mistake
And I know that she cries for you
When she's barely awake
Well she's going to bend your mind
Well I hope it don't break

[Chorus]
Now it's my turn to talk, your turn to think
Your turn to buy, my turn to drink
Your turn to cry and my turn to sink
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue chair
[Bridge]
Down in the blue chair
We can watch our troubles rise
Like smoke into the air
And drift up to the ceiling
Down in the blue chair
You can feel just like a boy or a man
And next minute you can find yourself kneeling
Down in the blue chair
They're boasting of loving the daylights
Right out of her in the small hours
Down in the blue chair
You say that your love lasts forever
When you know the night is just hours
Oh oh oh oh oh

[Verse 3]
And still I want her right now
Not any minute, hour or day
And wherever she is tonight
I want her anyway
I suppose she never said to you
You were just in the way

[Chorus]
Now it's my turn to talk, your turn to think
Your turn to buy, my turn to drink
Your turn to cry and my turn to sink
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue chair
[Outro]
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue chair
Down in the blue
Blue becomes you
Down in the Blue Chair

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Genius Annotation

Another Costello breakup song. John Lennon spoke of the blues as a “chair”: “The blues is a chair, not a design for a chair or a better chair … it is the first chair. It is a chair for sitting on, not for looking at. You sit on that music.”

Wonder if E.C. is channeling this Lennon quote.

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Release Date
September 15, 1986
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