Lena Blue

{INTRO:} Drummer: Un, du, tre...

Liv Warfield ("LW"): Well

LW: Sweet Lena...

LW: Hmmm

LW: Lena Blue

LW: Well

LW: Lena

LW: Her skin like butter (shea... ah?)

LW: Just like queen of the 18th Century

LW: Piercing eyes like Diamonds

Background Singers ("BS"): ...diamonds

LW: While sipping that cognac too

BS: Sipping that cognac too

LW: At her (thoughts?) she′s staring out a window, at a neighborhood she used to know

LW: Time is (perciple?) is gone, she only one left to go.

LW: Don't think she′s feeling sorry...

BS: ...sorry

LW: cause loneliness can be hard to hide

BS: ...hard to hide

LW: the pain... Well, she'll cuss you out like a sailor

BS: ...sailor

LW: and then help you wipe those tears away, goo—ood

LW & BS: Everybody's got a Lena Blue, one soul you can′t deny. (Hopes? Holds? Host?) the world upon her shoulders.

LW: That′s why

BS: That's why DNA

Musical interlude LW: Sharin′ stories of old glory and the times

BS: ...and the times

LW: the times that come to pass. She keeps the Bible close in case she needs to pray bout speakin'

BS: Speakin′

LW: Speakin' them secular ways.

BS: Somebody pray please!

LW: She said we ain′t perfect

BS: ...she said... perfect

LW: but I do... I do the best that I can... aww... aww... to be a woman

BS: To be a woman.

LW: To be a woman, in this world and raised up, and raise up, up a man.

LW & BS: (Dupe us? Two puffs?) as she blows out her smoke and she smiles at me

LW: ...and says honey,

LW & BS: Everybody's got a...

LW & BS: Everybody's got a Lena Blue, one soul you can′t deny. Holds the world upon her shoulders

LW: That′s why...

LW & BS: ...that's why DNA.

LW & BS: Everybody′s got a Lena Blue

LW (ad lib): ...oooo yeah.

BS: One soul you can't deny

LW (ad lib): She loves me so much yes she did

BS: Host the world upon her shoulders

LW: Ooooo, it′s all right.

BS: That's why DNA

LW: That′s why DNA oooo oh

BS: Everybody's got a Lena Blue

LW: Everybody's... everybody′s got a

BS: Everybody′s got a Lena Blue

LW: Ooo we love a Lena Blue church

BS: Everybody's got a Lena Blue

LW: Oh she did what she did but cha love her

BS: Everybody′s got a Lena Blue

LW: Yeah

BS: Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue

Musical interludeLW: Talkin' bout... talkin′ bout... talkn' bout... Lena... who she is...

BS: Leeennnaaa

LW: That′s right...

BS: Leeennnaaa