This is one of my all-time favorite songs because it says it all: the confusion of ended love, the politics of local society and the bewilderment of seeing the smoke clear and realizing that one is utterly alone:
Leaves were falling ..Just like embers
In colors red and gold, they set us on fire
Burning just like a moonbeam in our eyes
Chorus:
Somebody said they saw me
Swinging the world by the tail
Bouncing over a white cloud.
Killing the Blues
I am guilty of something
I hope you never do because there is nothing
Sadder than losing .. yourself in your love
Somebody said they saw me
Swinging the world by the tail
Bouncing over a white cloud.
Killing the Blues
Now, you ask me Just to leave you
To go out on my own and get what I need to
You want me to find ..what I've already had
Somebody said they saw me
Swinging the world by the tail
Bouncing over a white cloud.
Killing the Blues
This song was written by Roly Salley of Chris Issak's Silvertones. It's been covered by John Prine and Shawn Colvin and is on Salley's solo effort, available for sale at his website.
Here is Colvin's version.
