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Lonesome Blues And Love

from Things That Can't Be Taught by Wendell Kimbrough

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LONESOME BLUES AND LOVE
Words and Music ©2010 Wendell Kimbrough.

Lonely, why do you come for me? Why can’t you leave me alone?
I was doing fine working on my own, ‘til you came knocking loud upon my door.
Lonely, why do you come for me, when I am not even alone?
You have less to do with my circumstance than something deep inside that I don’t know.

And it’s all I can do to believe all that you say of me is not true,
When you come for me when I’m home, and you come for me when I’m gone.

What am I to do when a day like this slips past my defense and takes hold?
What kind of excuse can I tell myself to justify this sudden empty soul?

And it’s all I can do to believe I don’t deserve these lonesome blues,
When they come for me when I’m home, and they come for me when I’m gone.

And I try, and I try, but I can’t get outside of my mind, though I try,
‘Cause demand for love kills supply;
And I can’t explain my own part in the darker ways of my heart.

I have tasted love, I have felt it’s breath, warm against the surface of my soul,
But when I walked away, I could feel myself so quickly returning to the cold.

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from Things That Can't Be Taught, released November 18, 2011
Horns arranged by James Hall.
www.jameshallmusic.com
Horns performed by James Hall and Dave Robinson.
www.ccjazzband.com/meet-the-band.html

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Wendell Kimbrough Dallas, Texas

Wendell Kimbrough is a songwriter reimagining the Psalms for emotionally honest worship. His music makes space for the whole range of human experience. With singable melodies, steeped in the sounds of folk, gospel, and soul music, Wendell's songs are sung in churches around the world. He lives with his wife and 2 daughters in Dallas, Texas, where he serves at Church of the Incarnation. ... more

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