you take a man and a woman that just can t get along sick and tired of doing each other wrong painful words are spoken pressures that they don t belong in here oh oh this is where the blues begins a young man on the street trying hard to make his way out there in this mean world it gets harder every day he tried to find a good fight he was starting a new life but the saw him closing in oh oh this is where the blues begins where the blues begins way down on the bottom you got the struggle to survive where the blues begins hard luck and trouble takes us totally on the line it s the same old fight you know you just can t win oh oh this is where the blues begins where the blues begins way down on the bottom you got the struggle to survive where the blues begins hard luck and trouble takes us totally on the line it s the same old fight you know you just can t win oh oh this is where the blues begins it s the same old fight you know you just can t win