John Hiatt Wintertime Blues Lyrics

Wintertime Blues Lyrics

I've been too long with my nose in a book

I hope you sing just as good as you look

Come on over baby, I got a song for you

A little jump of something I call wintertime blues



I wanna hear those mockingbird wings

I want gravy on everything

Lovin' in the kitchen, what have we got to lose

Just a nasty case of these ol' wintertime blues



Cold as snot with a big frozen smile

Ain't foolin' nobody after a while

Time to let the cat out, I've got a real short fuse

I'm just about to blow up these ol' wintertime blues, blow a while



There's no spring

There was never any spring

Spring's a long gone thing

There won't ever be a spring no more



At least that's the way it feels when your

Skin is cracked and peeled and you've been livin' under

Sixty pounds of blanket and the snow's drifting up to your window

And you're out of firewood and the wolf is howling at your door



Three hours of day light and all of them gray

The suicide prevention group has all run away

I'm runnin' out of groceries, I ain't got no rubber shoes

Bring the bacon baby, I got the wintertime blues



I could cut a hole in the floor

Catch you a fish by a quarter to four

But I'm stuck up this mountain where I got a bird's eye view

Of couple more months of these ol' wintertime blues



And it's a one, two, my lips are turning blue

Come on over baby what have we got to lose

Just a nasty case of these ol' wintertime blues



And it's three, four, I'm stiff as Al Gore

Come on over baby what have we got to lose

Just a nasty case of these ol' wintertime blues



Well, it's the same old drill

For Punxsutawney Phil

If he sees his own shadow

I'm shootin' to kill



Come on over baby, I stand accused

There's a man going crazy up here

With the wintertime blues