You Know My Life Would Be Easy If People Would Leave Me Alone Stop Steppin' On My Fingers That I've Been Working to the Bone Maybe Then I Could Come Back to You God Damn I Hate the Blues I've Tried to Put Them I a Bottle Some People Put' em in Their Arm Either Way They're Gonna Kill You Slowly Eat Away Your Heart If Only I Could Stop the Thought of You God Damn I Hate the Blues I Never Learned to Listen To the Promises I Made I Never Thought You'd Stay Away Leaving Me to Take the Blame I Never Thought You'd Follow Through God Damn I Hate the Blues