Big Blue Note

Album: Honky Tonk University (2005)
Charted: 55
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  • See that big blue note
    Over there on the counter
    You don't wanna read that thing, man
    It's a real get-you-downer
    But don't you dare say nothin' else bad about her
    She's gone

    No, no, no, no, no, don't, don't throw it away
    'Cause tonight I might need it
    It gets real lonely around here at night sometimes
    And I have to reread it
    Besides, you show it to the boys downtown
    They won't believe that
    She's gone

    There used to be a time I was all she ever wanted
    All the man that she'll ever need
    I come home to find just like that, she's up and vanished
    And the only thing she left behind for me

    Is this big blue note folded up in my pocket
    Yeah, don't laugh, it's been two months
    I still got it
    Sometimes I have to read the sucker twice
    Just to make sure I ain't forgot that
    She's gone

    You know, my psychiatrist said
    "Tell me what do you see
    When you look at these ink spots
    Of uh, reds and yellows and greens" you know
    I looked at 'em all but they all looked to me like
    Big blue notes

    There used to be a time I was all she ever wanted
    All the man that she'll ever need
    I come home to find just like that, she's up and vanished
    And the only thing she left behind for me

    Is stand high on this cliff overlookin' the sea
    With my big blue note paper airplane that I just set free
    And I'ma wait here a few more minutes
    And if it don't come back to me, huh
    You guessed it, she's gone

    Crash landin'
    Bye-bye, baby Writer/s: Scott Emerick, Toby Keith
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, TKO ARTIST MANAGEMENT, Tokeco Tunes
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Connor Wheeler from Dartmouth, NsI love this song. it is also very easy to play on guitar.
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