Mobile Blue
Wandering Hearts: Exploring the Soulful Journey of 'Mobile Blue'
Lyrics
Headed south to work a pipeline
Embarking south to engage in pipeline work
Make some cash while in the meantime
Earning money while in the meantime
Baby jumped a bird and flew away
His significant other left suddenly
Lordy, Lordy, my, my mind's achin'
Expressing emotional distress and pain
Drunk and down and out and makin' time
Feeling intoxicated, downtrodden, and wasting time
With anything that comes my way
Adopting a carefree attitude toward life's offerings
Staggered to the Greyhound station
Stumbling to the Greyhound station
L.A. ma'am my destination
Heading to Los Angeles as the intended destination
Put me on that dog take me away
Boarding a Greyhound bus to escape
Mobile blue Lord, I can't make it
Expressing emotional turmoil and inability to cope
Got me down Lord, I can't take it
Feeling overwhelmed and distressed
Here in Alabama for one more day
Stuck in Alabama for an additional day
Lord I called a friend in Frisco Lord
Contacting a friend in San Francisco
He said baby's in L.A
Learning that the person he cares about is in Los Angeles
Here I am in Alabama and two thousand miles away
Currently in Alabama, far from the desired location
Lord I got them mobile blues today
Experiencing the emotional blues while in transit
Aw I left her back in Frisco, Lord
Left his lover in San Francisco against her wishes
She begged me not to go
She pleaded for him not to leave
I know somebody must have told her
Suspecting that someone informed her about his tendency to travel and deceive
That I travel and I lie
Acknowledging a pattern of wandering and dishonesty
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