Blues Before Sunrise
Heartache at Dawn: John Lee Hooker's Soulful Blues Tale
Lyrics
Blue before sunrise
Feeling sad and down before the sun rises
Tears standing in my eyes
Tears are visible in the speaker's eyes
Blue before sunrise
Continuation of a melancholic mood before sunrise
With tears standing in my eyes
Reiteration of tears in the speaker's eyes
Such a horrible feeling
Expressing a deeply unpleasant emotion
Boy, that I do despise
Strong dislike for the feeling mentioned
Nobody know
No one is aware of the speaker's troubled state
What a shape I'm in
Describing the speaker's poor condition
Nobody know
Reiterating the lack of awareness about the speaker's state
What a shape I'm in
Emphasizing the speaker's difficult situation
My wife had left me
The speaker's wife has left him for another man
Left me for another man
Reinforcement of the wife leaving for another man
For seven long years
Describing the duration of the speaker's struggle
Lord knows I tried
The speaker has tried for seven years
Everything I could
Expressing the speaker's efforts to resolve issues
To get along with my wife
The speaker's attempt to get along with his wife
Oh, blue before sunrise
Reiteration of the sad state before sunrise
Tears standing in my eyes
Repeating the presence of tears in the speaker's eyes
A horrible feeling, boy, that I do despise
Emphasis on the speaker's strong dislike for the feeling
I lost everything
The speaker has lost everything he owned
Everything I ever owned
Reiteration of losing all possessions
I lost everything
Emphasizing the extent of the speaker's losses
Everything I ever owned
Repeating the significant loss of everything owned
For seven long years
Seven years of persistent effort by the speaker
I tried too hard
The speaker tried very hard during this period
Blue before sunrise
Reiteration of feeling blue before sunrise
With tears in my eyes
Continuation of tears in the speaker's eyes
Tears down in my eyes
Repeating the presence of tears in the speaker's eyes
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