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The devil wears lipstick

from Paradise regained - Album by Fred Guggenberger

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This is a really classic blues thing. Getting your heart broken and suffering. I thought about how many people have written songs about it. I decided to step away from just "howling at the moon" and looking for some good in it. In my life, it was the moment, where i found myself on a stage and playing all that old blues-songs i always loved to play but ... this time it was different and i understood, that i now fully understood, what this songs were about. From my own experiences.

Don´t get me wrong: I am not celebrating heartbreaks. But sometimes you find something good in the fact, that he or she was leaving you. Maybe in the moment you find someone better. Or when you realize, that you NOW really got the blues ;-)

Big hugs:
Fred

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The devil wears lipstick ... and some fine italian shoes.
The devil wears thick lips ... and he teached me how to play the blues.
The devil comes with every face. To me, he was a lady.
He never told me about the price, until he came on payday.

The devil has a mother. And boy you ́re never good enough.
She always wants another ... stupid guy to rip him off.
The devil wants a man with tons of money.
When she got him, she will whisper „you sweet honey!!“

After all and at the end. I have to say the fool was me.
Long before she broke my heart, i could see she was not good for me.
I ignored it, stayed until until i got the blues.
People watch your back, the devil ́s on the lose!

People hear my story. And what i have to say.
I don ́t want you to worry ... about girls that wear lipstick every day.
Some of them are wonderful, some of them are cool.
This song is about cold hearted moneyhorny fools.

Thank you Mr. Devil. You to teached me how to play the blues.
Before the day i met you, i didn ́t knew how it feels to lose.
I listened to the bluesmen, and played their music loud.
Since i met you baby i know what they were talking about!

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from Paradise regained - Album, released February 20, 2015

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Fred Guggenberger / Professor Black Sheep Taufkirchen, Germany

Musician, Songwriter, Producer, Book Writer, Dog Dad and believing in the universal language and magic of music.

Bread feeds the body. Music feeds the soul.

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