Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind
Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater Lyrics

Awful sweet to be a little butterfly
It's pleasant to float around like a butterfly without any deep thoughts.

Just swinging over things and nothing deep inside
Just flying over things with no deep thoughts or worries inside.

Nothing going, going wild in you, you know
You're not feeling any wild, intense emotions.

You're slowing by the riverside, a-floating high and blue
You're slowing down by the riverside, floating gently and feeling a little sad.

Or maybe cool to be a little summer wind
It could be nice to be a summer breeze.

Like once through everything and then away again
Blowing through everything and then disappearing again like a summer breeze.

With the taste of dust in your mouth all day
With the taste of dust in your mouth from blowing around all day.

But no need to know
No need to worry or think too deeply.

Like sadness, you just sail away
Like sadness, you just blow away and disappear.

"Cuz you know
Because you know,

I don't do sadness
I refuse to feel sadness.

Not even a little bit
Not even a small amount.

Just don't need it in my life
I don't want sadness in my life.

Don't want any part of it
I don't want any involvement with sadness.

Hey, I've done my time
I've experienced sadness before, but I don't want to anymore.

Lookin' back on it all, man, it blows my mind
Reflecting on the past experiences of sadness is overwhelming.

Moritz Steifel?
A reference to the character Moritz Steifel in the musical 'Spring Awakening.'

Ilse, you frightened me
A character named Ilse startles the singer.

What are you looking for?
The singer asks Ilse what she is searching for.

I wish I knew
Ilse wishes she knew what she was looking for.

Then what's the use of looking? I'm on the way home, want to come?
The artist questions the point of looking, but invites Ilse to come home with them.

I don't know
Ilse is unsure if she wants to go with the artist.

God, you remember how we used to run back to my house and play pirates?
The singer reminisces about playing with Ilse in the past.

Wendla Bergman, Melchior Gabor, you and I?
The artist mentions other characters from 'Spring Awakening' and includes Ilse as part of their imaginary pirate game.

Blue wind gets so sad
The blue wind feels sorrowful.

Blowing through the thick corn
Blowing through tall corn stalks.

Through the bales of hay
Through stacks of hay bales.

Through the open books on the grass
Through books that are lying open on the grass.

Sure when its autumn
In autumn,

Wind always wants to
The wind has the desire to

Creep up and haunt you
To sneak up and cause you fear or anxiety.

When silence got you
When things become quiet.

If it's heartache well, it's sorrow
If it's causing emotional pain, then it's sorrowful.

Winter wind sings under cries
The winter wind makes a singing sound beneath the cries of sadness.

Blue wind gets so pained
The blue wind experiences pain and sadness.

Through the sudden drift of the rain
Through the rain that is blowing and drifting suddenly.

Actually I better go
The singer decides they should leave.

Walk as far as my house with me
The singer invites the other person to walk with them.

I wish I could
The other person wishes they could walk with the singer.

Then why don't you?
The artist asks why the other person can't walk with them.

Eighty lines of virgils, sixteen equations, a paper on the hopsboard
A reference to homework the artist needs to do.

So maybe I should be some kind of laundry line
The singer jokes that they should become a laundry line.

Hang their things on me, and I will swing 'em dry
If people put their wet clothes on the singer, they would shake and dry them off.

You just wave in the sun through the afternoon and then see
They would just wave around in the sun and see what happens.

They come to set you free beneath the rising moon
Eventually someone will come and set the artist free under the moonlight.

The wandering clouds of the dust
The clouds of dust that are moving around aimlessly.

Just don't care
The singer doesn't care about sadness.