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there's a certain shade of blue I get
blue light tightness in my throat and in my chest
blue like I can't seem to get a full deep breath
blue like I'm somewhere between living and dead

when I'm taken over by the deepest blue
and I don't know how or what I can do
to numb the sensation that I wanna be sick
and instead just try to live in it

I don't mean to sound like a cheap self-help guide
but listen, I gotta lot of experience being a sad old guy
sometimes that blue it's the colour of the sea
and if you're not careful you'll sink into it until you can't breath

but sometimes that blue can be the big sky
seen from somewhere above the tree line
or the blue in the jersey of your favourite team
that lived and died on the shoulders of Henrik Sedin

some blues are beautiful and real and they can make you cry
like I try to do with nearly every song I write
I've spent a lot of time trying to keep the blues at bay
but they are the person I am and that person is here to stay

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from Coral Linus: Memories of the World That Was, released December 23, 2020

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Tyler Shipley Toronto, Ontario

Tyler Shipley was the founding member of the Consumer Goods (theconsumergoods.bandcamp.com) and now performs as a solo artist.

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