Mobile Blue
Mobile Blue Journey: A Tale of Longing and Regret
Lyrics
Headed south to work to pipeline
Heading south to work on the pipeline.
Make some cash while in the meantime
Earning money in the meantime.
Baby jumped a bird and flew away
His partner (Baby) left suddenly.
Lordy, Lordy, my, my mind's achin'
Expressing emotional pain and distress.
Drunk and down and out and makin' time
Feeling intoxicated, down, and out, but still moving forward.
With anything that comes my way
Dealing with whatever comes his way.
Staggered to the Greyhound station
Walking unsteadily to the Greyhound station.
L.A. means my destination
Los Angeles is the intended destination.
Put me on that dog, take me away
Boarding the bus to get away.
Mobile blues baby, I can't make it
Expressing despair and inability to cope with the situation.
Got me down Lord, I can't take it
Feeling overwhelmed and troubled.
Here in Alabama one more day
Stuck in Alabama for another day.
I called a friend in Frisco
Contacting a friend in San Francisco.
He said "baby's in L.A."
Learning that his partner is in Los Angeles.
Here I am in Alabama two thousand miles away
Being far away in Alabama.
Lord I got this mobile blues today
Feeling the blues intensely.
Well, I left her back in Frisco
Left his partner in San Francisco against her wishes.
And she begged me not to go
She pleaded for him not to leave.
I know somebody must have told her
Suspecting that rumors about his lifestyle have reached her.
That I travel and I lie
Acknowledging his tendency to travel and deceive.
That they saw me drunk in mobile
Rumors of him being drunk in Mobile with another woman.
With some wired up chick from Jacksonville
Describing the woman from Jacksonville as unconventional.
And brother did we look like we could fly
Both appearing carefree and wild.
Staggered to the Greyhound station
Returning to the Greyhound station to leave for Los Angeles.
L.A. means my destination
Reiterating Los Angeles as the intended destination.
Put me on that dog, take me away
Boarding the bus again to escape.
Lord I got this mobile blues today
Expressing the persisting feeling of the blues.
Lord I got this mobile blues today
Reaffirming the enduring sense of melancholy.
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