(And you make me want you more when you hurt me a lot)
 I say I really love you and you say that you don't
 (And it really turns me on when you say that you won't)

 CHORUS
 The blues before and after
 I get the blues before and after I'm with you
 The blues before and after
 I get the blues before and after loving you

 Sometimes I need to hear you voice
 Sometimes I don't want to know
 (I get so tired of tryin' to win you I just don't want to know)
 Yo're takin' just what you need
 And then you're well on your way
 (I hear the same old story almost every day)

 CHORUS

 It's a shame that you won't see me when I need you tonight
 Cause I know that if you did then everything would be right
 And I've tried my very best to give the things that you need
 But the blues they seem to follow me I never succeed

 I wanna take you in my arms and you just don't wanna know
 (When I finally get to touch you, feels like forty below)
 Just as always you have gotten your way
 Just a normal complication in a typical day

 CHORUS