Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind
The Spring Awakening Lyrics

Awful sweet to be a little butterfly
It may seem nice to be carefree and frivolous

Just swinging over things and nothing deep inside
To not have any real depth, just surface level concerns

Nothing going, going wild in you, you know
Not feeling passionate or wild in one's life

You're slowing by the riverside, a-floating high and blue
Feeling aimless and detached from reality

Or maybe cool to be a little summer wind
Another option could be to have a fleeting and temporary existence

Like once through everything and then away again
To not leave any lasting impression, just passing through

With the taste of dust in your mouth all day
To experience emptiness and insignificance

But no need to know
There is no need for deeper understanding or meaning

Like sadness, you just sail away
Like sadness or negative emotions, one just moves on and doesn't dwell

Cuz you know
Because you understand

I don't do sadness
I don't entertain negative emotions

Not even a little bit
Not even a small amount

Just don't need it in my life
It is not necessary or desirable for me to experience sadness

Don't want any part of it
I want to avoid it completely

Hey, I've done my time
I have already experienced enough sadness

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

So been there
I have already experienced it

Just don't care
I am apathetic towards sadness

Moritz Steephle
Name of a character in the musical

Ilse, you frightened me
Addressing another character in the musical

What are you looking for?
Asking a question about what someone is searching for or seeking

If only I knew
Expressing uncertainty or confusion

Then what's the use of looking?
Questioning the point of searching without any answers

I'm on the way home, want to come?
Asking someone if they want to join on the way home

I don't know
Expressing indecision or uncertainty

God, you remember how we used to run back
Recalling a memory and addressing a higher power

To my house and play pirates
Describing a childhood activity

Vend LeBergman, Melchior Gabor, you and I?
Naming characters in the musical and including another person

Spring and summer
Referring to seasons in the year

Every other day
Alternate days

Blue wind gets so sad
The wind is a metaphor for human emotion and is experiencing sadness

Blowing through the thick corn
Describing the wind's actions

Through the bales of hay
Describing the wind's path

Through the open books on the grass
Describing the wind's path and surroundings

Sure when its autumn
Referring to another season

Wind always wants to
Personifying the wind

Creep up and haunt you
Describing a negative sensation that the wind is causing

When silence got you
Referring to when one is experiencing silence or peace and the wind interrupts it

If it's heartache well, it's sorrow
Describing different types of pain or sadness

Winter wind sings under cries
The winter wind is another metaphor for sadness and is described moving through a crying person

Blue wind gets so pained
The wind is experiencing pain

Through the sudden drift of the rain
Describing the wind's path

Actually I better go
Expressing a need to leave

Walk as far as my house with me
Asking someone to join on a walk home

I wish I could
Expressing a desire to join but unable to

Then why don't you?
Asking why they cannot join

Eighty lines of virgils, sixteen equations, a paper on the hopsboard
Describing academic obligations

So maybe I should be some kind of laundry line
Proposing being useful for some other purpose

Hang their things on me, and I will swing 'em dry
Continuing with the analogy of being a laundry line

You just wave in the sun through the afternoon and then see
Describing the experience of being a laundry line and the sun shining

They come to set you free beneath the rising moon
Describing a sense of freedom and release