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Night
Falls and I'am alone
Skin
Yeah chilled me to the bone
You
Turned and you ran
Oh yea
Oh slipped
Right from my hand
Blue on black
Tears on a river
Push on a shove
It don't mean much
Joker on jack
Match on a fire
Cold on ice
As a dead man's touch
Whisper on a scream
Doesn't change a thing
Doesn't bring you back
Blue on black
Blind
Oh now I see
Truth
Lies and in between
Wrong
Can't be undone
Slipped
From the tip of your tongue
Blue on black
Tears on a river
Push on a shove
It don't mean much
Joker on jack
Match on a fire
Cold on ice
As a dead man's touch
Whisper on a scream
Doesn't change a thing
Doesn't bring you back
Blue on black
Falls and I'am alone
Skin
Yeah chilled me to the bone
You
Turned and you ran
Oh yea
Oh slipped
Right from my hand
Blue on black
Tears on a river
Push on a shove
It don't mean much
Joker on jack
Match on a fire
Cold on ice
As a dead man's touch
Whisper on a scream
Doesn't change a thing
Doesn't bring you back
Blue on black
Blind
Oh now I see
Truth
Lies and in between
Wrong
Can't be undone
Slipped
From the tip of your tongue
Blue on black
Tears on a river
Push on a shove
It don't mean much
Joker on jack
Match on a fire
Cold on ice
As a dead man's touch
Whisper on a scream
Doesn't change a thing
Doesn't bring you back
Blue on black
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blind, oh, now i see
truth, lies, and in between
wrong, cant be undone
oh slipped, from the tip of
your tounge
? reminds me of someone...bitch
truth, lies, and in between wrong, cant be undone oh slipped, from the tip of your tounge" stood out as after doing what cops do and find truth through lies and misdirection the sudden forthcomng of truth after 6 years on a hellacious roller coster ride of a relationship stood out that all of the fighting to keep the relationship together, my intense desire, almost need to have what I thought was supposed to be with him, a place to feel safe where I didnt need to be on guard or closed off and genuinely wanted.
To me this song is about a man so completely in love, he did everything he thought she wanted or needed because he knew she had already been stepping out or moving on, just not out the door yet. He confronted her and expressed all of this and wanted to keep her, though her words confirmed what he knew, that nothing he did or could ever do would be good enough to keep her, she had trailed him along until she was ready to leave him for the man she had already been going to. Despite knowing this, in his misery he still loves her.
PS. He does his own version of both, “there's your trouble” and “blue on black” on the album the horse he rode in on. It’s an acoustic album, just Mark and his guitar but it’s still fantastic.
PPS. 9 Pound Hammer is his best album – best songs are… Buck fifty and a flat head ford, Leveller reveller, Dangerous Game and Guitar in the rain although the whole album is worthy of serious praise.
It all comes together in that vein.
Some great guitar work, there, but makes me wish some of the lead phrases cranked a bit more.
Nonetheless, a great song.
wrong, cant be undone
oh slipped, from the tip of
your tounge
The song is a response to his girl has said, some kind of apology or explanation for some wrong she has done, and it moot in his eyes. He won't accept her words, saying they are insignificant. The chorus is a list of things he views that are comparisons to her words and her actions, like trying to color blue over black which will only net you black again.