Lyrics to
Black-Eyed Blues

This version of Black-Eyed Blues was released by Joe Cocker in 1972.

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I need a destination of the black eyed blues
Total destination of the colour I choose
Now I don’t mind if it turned me around
Just as long as it gets fine oh it gets bound

A sudden hesitation to the black eyed shoes
A total destination of the colour you choose
oh I don’t mind if you let it ride
Just as long as you let it shine, oh let it shine

Tell you I need a destination of the black eyed blues
Total destination of the colour I choose
Now I don’t mind if it turned me around
Just as long as it gets fine oh it gets bound

Oh sweet indoctrination of they old time blues
Total fascination of the colour I choose
Whoo I don’t mind if let the poor down
Just as long as its turning around, oh its turning around

Tell you want feel the destination of the black eyed blues
Total destination of the colour I choose
I don’t mind witch way you want to go
Just as long as you let it show, let it show

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About Lyrics and Black-Eyed Blues by Joe Cocker

The lyrics for Black-Eyed Blues are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1972 song by Joe Cocker. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Black-Eyed Blues have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Black-Eyed Blues - Joe Cocker and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Black-Eyed Blues by Joe Cocker in multiple ways. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Black-Eyed Blues" means the words set to the music of Black-Eyed Blues, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Joe Cocker. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Black-Eyed Blues and the lyrics to Black-Eyed Blues are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Joe Cocker who came here looking just for the lyrics to Black-Eyed Blues, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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