One of the highlights of Blue Afternoon, "Blue Melody" contains one of Tom Buckley's more intoxicating melodies. Filled with a combination of minor seventh and major seventh chords and a beguiling Brazilian tempo, it moves like some of Antonio Carlos Jobim's work of the early '60s. Lyrically, the song is intriguing as well, and Buckley uses the parable of a blues melody to illustrate his life as well as the conflict that he faced as a recording artist and performer. An automatic and welcome addition to Rhino's excellent 2001 anthology Morning Glory.
(by Matthew Greenwald, allmusic.com)
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Well I was born a blue melody
A little song my mama sang to me
It was a blue melody
Such a blue you've never seen
There ain't no wealth that can buy my pride
There ain't no pain that can cleanse my soul
No just a blue melody
Sailing far away from me
One summer mornin' I was raised but I don't know
One summer morning I was left but I don't know
One summer morning
so all alone
Late in ev'ning I'll sing in your dreaming
Down from the mountains along with the breezes
So close inside
our love grew smiles
So if you hear that blue melody
Won't you please send it home to me
It's just my blue melody
Callin' far away to me
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