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The Blues Ain't a Color

by Denise La Grassa

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1.
One More Tear 04:00
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One more tear is gonna fall Gonna fall on you Gonna fall on you One more night I take a fall Can I call on you? You’ve got to listen hard, and listen good Like every best friend lover should Can I call on you? Someone stole my strength and truth Can I still believe, in life’s sacred dreams Shaking down on oceans thrown Can I call on you And when they take me down, you’ll rise me up Shine my golden hear to sunshine love Can I call on you To help me wash away Every single tear One small wish I pray for you That the best in life, gets the best of you
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Vain Game 02:33
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Vain game and everyone can come around and play with the same hand everyday fun way to dissappear into a free land where everyone is singing no place for modesty believe me and honesty is respectfully ignored vain game, vain game…vain game grandstanding and stuffing every pocket sitting on sundays praying for a record profit good revernd tell me boutthe blessed life i’m leading tell me i’m a good man walking on sacred land in my wonderland, no devil will ever lead me no devil willlead me astray in this vain game….vain game vain game shame games of politician stars never sound like roosevelt or rosa parks make the news whenever they say i can make the world a better place with the truth i’ve just erased close your eyes their spilling lies, lies, lies but no one will stop it playing a vain vain game, vain game…vain game vain game
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Better Blues 03:45
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Gee it’s very very Great to find My whole heart bleeding and he’s right behind No one touched or held me Hoped to want to tell me I’d be loved forever He came to make it better Can’t deny the very Truth he’s living Emptied out the evil parts I finally am forgiven Pealing backwards Letting out the big shouts I’m safe and sound Cause I was born for Better Blues I was born for Better Blues For Better Blues for Better Blues All this heart can heal now Grace to finally feel how Hurting hard the mending Fighting through the memories In the darkest chapter Generations after Stay inside the truth believing the enemy is stealing In the hometown papers Look where love would take her Prayed for light I’m rightly givin’ I’m gonna keep on living Pealing backwards Letting out the big shouts I’m safe and sound Cause I was born for Better Blues I was born for Better Blues For Better Blues for Better Blues
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I've Had It With The Blues 02:12
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I’ve had it with the Blues The color is painfully overused The lighting is thundering louder and harder Where is the yellow brick road to beautiful flowers Got a knife stuck in my soul Telling me, it’s time to go Take the first flight out of here All signs say the coast is clear Sparks appear Last call for dreamers to fly The blues ain’t a color it’s true… You pay and over pay life’s dues Start marching out of step and out of beat Singing a new song start changing the beat The bud on my rose is opening up again and its letting in Sweet sounds from sun dance skies Passing dust bowels on lonely nights Sparks appear last call for dreamers to fly
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Davina's Song 03:54
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My time is Coming train it’s a running A good tune I’m humming cause I better be running Oh my time is coming by Lord I’m wondering when When I’m going I’m going and I’m gone Oh my life’s been a battle my precious gifts my children Their laughter filled my kitchen kept my drive for livin’ And when my last breath leaves me they better give love freely Cause when I’m going, they’re alone, and I’m gone Bridge: They better stand by their dreams, keep their livin’ running clean Put their best dreams forward Tell the devil, move over Be the branches be the tree let your sun shine loud and free And take the time to shake the blues When the worst comes round your door Gotta start my packing I hear the call loud and crackin’ Seems my time’s growing old here won’t be happening in this world Oh my time is coming and I found out when When I’m going, I’m going and I’m gone, Well I’m going, gone…..
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Doggone Blues 02:52
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I wake up in the morning, start scratching my head Pull off the silk sheets from my mink furry bed I look in the mirror get a horrible fright My diamond studded collar just ain’t looking right A carat is missing, one of the ten 18K’s Looks like this is gonna be a ruff ruff ruff day I’ve got the dog-gone blues, Yes the dog-gone blues No stepping outside today We’ve run out of liver pate What to do, what to do What to do, with these dog-gone blues Dog walker is late, cause she knows how I hate The scooper she’s using is cheap silver plate How can I walk to the spa When I’m a bark with no bite My fluff-cut looks different I hide it till night All the Spa members tease me Say I look like a stray.. I tell them my dog groomer up and moved to L.A. I’ve got the dog-gone blues, Yes the dog-gone blues No stepping outside today We’ve run out of liver pate What to do, what to do, what to do.. with these dog-gone blues It’s no use denying I’ve lost all my clout No one wants to be around A rich dog who pouts I pray it gets better I just want to fit in A pedigree pedicure Will wipe off this layer of grim So paraffin me with all the top dogs Chauffer come get me, lift me out of the fog! I’ve got the dog-gone blues, Yes the dog-gone blues Not stepping outside today We’ve run out of liver pate What to do what to do what to do? What to do what to do what to do? What to do what to do what to do? With these dog-gone blues
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Spinning Jenny 04:29
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Spinning Jenny all around in this mill What a fine machine for weaving cotton into dresses And my Mrs. will wear them just once or twice to tea At plantation parties, in formal company She’ll wear them just once for just one day And in her closest they'll stay Clothes I dream I'll wear All the men will stare someday Wish Jenny could spin a dress for me Love to sit down with the ladies at high tea Rich young men will ask me to dance for awhile Admiring my fashion in the latest of styles… Take me for a Spin, Jenny far from this place . Can’t change my clothes can’t change my race Broken plenty when the man comes around He’s the lord of this plantation spinning sins of racial separation And he poisoned me empty whipping all the love from my heart But no one hears me weeping, when scars are bleeding while I’m sleeping I’ll make it through one more day and in my closet I’ll pray For clothes I dream I’ll wear All the men will stare someday Wish Jenny could spin a dress for me Love to sit down with the ladies at high tea Rich young men will ask me to dance for awhile Admiring my fashion in the latest of styles… Take me for a Spin, Jenny far from this place . Can’t change my clothes can’t change my race
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The Blues Ain't a Color 02:44
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The Blues ain’t a color You know this is true When you’re waiting for the sunlight To shine a ray to you Whenever life let’s you down You’ll find faith around Help from real friend Lifting your soul right up again The toughest days have passed away so sing lets here you play Here comes the biggest prize Open your weary eyes All the good news Is the good blues you’ve been through in life (instrumental) Play Go towards the biggest light Sail like a holy kite Only love rules Over the big fools Stealing your dreams in life Play Sail like a holy kite Do what is only right.
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Love Rules Everything 02:42
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There’s always dancing inside with these tears that we hide our glory is dreaming its coming there’s always magic in life when the wise man appears his graces replacing these fears and love ruleseverything,...and my love rules everything there’s always angels that spy through the lullaby rain i feel them kidnapping my pain sprinkle’s that twinkle these blues keeping me warm in the night my bad dreams are nowhere in sight and love rules everything …and my love rules everything
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Color is the Difference 04:10
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What’s the point in talking We don’t see eye to eye You see a darker picture telling you to move aside In the morning walking towards me you switch sidewalks on our street Black color may come back tonight, steal Possessions while you sleep Never getting past, past history Keep putting boundaries round our doors Wonder why we keep denying Color is the only thing we’re different for Color is the only thing we’re different for Different for In the workplace, schools and streets shades of colors taking sides Bringing back the day’s we fought for equality, and civil rights Just a rule, like dollar figures we can add and comprehend But when it comes to loving feelings You never want to be my friend When will we move past, past history Take down these boundaries round our doors Time for realizing… Cast a vote for me or watch me on the winning team So we can all agree We’re one in harmony Change the conversation from those lines I read between You’re not equal to me black people This is something witnessed and can be seen Gone the days when racist leaders Wore white and hung our colors dead and grim We’ve come so far from fearful living Time for healing up, these hateful sins Fast, keep moving past, past history Take down these boundaries round our doors Wonder why we keep denying Color is the only thing we’re different for Color is the only thing we’re different for Different for

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The Blues Ain't a Color is the soundtrack to Denise La Grassa's original stage presentation of the same name.

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released February 14, 2015

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The release of The Flame marks another milestone along Denise La Grassa’s ‘North of 40’ journey that began in 2022 when the singer/songwriter looked deep inside and challenged herself with:

“Can a woman … say ‘North of 40’ … still follow her dream of returning to Europe to perform with her new band and rootsy sound?” ... more

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