Lyrics to
Turn Blue

This version of Turn Blue was released by Iggy Pop in 1977.

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See a black Eldorado
Oh, rolling along down below my window
That black girl in the back looks pretty good
Christ! She’s beautiful
You know how soft she is
Just what you feel like

Oh, I’m so far away from her
Jesus this is Iggy
You, you might as well come with me,
When you ride the ride
There’s talk and I don’t wanna talk

Oh mamma, I shot myself down

They’re stepping on our hearts
Stepping on our hearts
I don’t know why they’re stepping on our hearts
Damn, I don’t know why
Stepping on our hearts
Can’t you see, oh no, Stepping on our hearts

How come the blacks, how come they copy you so good?
They get off on you, so ?
If you wanna make it
Young man you gotta make somebody come
Come out of your black and strong
Black! Strong! Black!

Jesus it’s cold in this room, it’s really cold
You know I never told you about this, but there’s one guy
Somebody I really love, he’s never around
Well he was taking things that could be alright, that could be nice
And make him ugly, so damn ugly
And we put out the lights on them
Yeah, we’d make it dark, we put out the lights….on them
It’s idiots like you that screw me up
I know there’s nothing to you
And I don’t know why I treat you so kind
Come down and dance with me, dance with me
You got nobody left but me
Oh accept me, don’t reject me, don’t forget me
Mamma, what colour will the lights be? Will they turn blue on me?
Mamma, I shot myself up, woh mamma, I shot myself up, up, up, mamma
Up down, up down mamma
Oh oh oh oh oh mamma
I didn’t know what I was doing, I didn’t mean to, but I did it, I shot myself up
Mamma I shot myself!

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About Lyrics and Turn Blue by Iggy Pop

The lyrics for Turn Blue are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1977 song by Iggy Pop. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Turn Blue 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 Turn Blue - Iggy Pop 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 Turn Blue by Iggy Pop 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 Turn Blue" means the words set to the music of Turn Blue, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Iggy Pop. 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 Turn Blue and the lyrics to Turn Blue are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Iggy Pop who came here looking just for the lyrics to Turn Blue, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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