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I'm trying to do a close reading of 'The Blues are Still Blue', but I'm having trouble drawing meaning from the verses. At the moment, what I've concluded from the chorus has something to do with the double meaning of "laundry" (in the context of "airing out dirty laundry", meaning interpersonal problems), so Stuart is throwing his problems aside, and in the process the 'blacks' and the 'whites', or, the contentions of each party in the relationships, the details get muddled up and become grey, but in the end, the blues persist. The same goes for the 'lady' version of the chorus, perhaps one person will argue one thing and the other will argue the opposite, and everything becomes jumbled up.

But the verses are totally lost on me. Help, anyone?

Here are the lyrics:

Look at the kid from school
He?s teaching mamas and papas how to be a little cool
He?s changing fashion, the way he dress
The tracksuits are old, and the hoody?s way too moody
For a kid with the will to funk
He dances in secret; he?s a part-time punk

She?s getting off the plane
She wants to write a thesis on the population underprivileged
The kids fighting up the lane
Shop lifting, just drifting
Like The Switchblade And The Cross
But if there?s trouble she?s got the moves
She?s taking an elementary class in Kung fu

I left my washing in the launderette
You can put some money on it, you can place a little bet
That when I see my washing
The black will be grey and the white will be grey
But the blues are still blue

I?m crying out for my mum
If the malady don?t go away we?re in a little trouble
With the boss of the company
I?m a singer, a swinger I?m a layabout but laying on
The dock in the lazy sun
Will never quite relegate me to a bum

I left my lady in the launderette
You can put some money on it, you can place a little bet
That when I see my lady
The black will be white and the white will be black
But The Blues Are Still Blue

Baby, I love your face
I?ve been creeping round this town because?
Well, creeping?s just my way
But with a little wink I?ll be there
I?ll be excited for a week, but then excitement starts to fade
I know your young, but you?re out of touch
You?re French, your vocabulary?s not quite formed

I left my homework in the launderette
I got a letter from my mamma which my stoopid dog has ate
I hid behind the fence
Here comes the deputy head with the bark of a bulldog
He?s not making much sense

I left my lady in the launderette
You can put some money on it, you can place a little bet
That when I see my lady
The black will be white and the white will be black
But the blues are still blue?

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this is the only belle and sebastian song I like and I LOVE it
I play it like every day
somehow when I analyze songs it ruins them for me
but I guess it seems that the general idea is that his feelings become numbed in the end (grey) or he ends up feeling more confused than he did in the beginning with the "black and white"...still there is a persistent sadness (blues are still blue)

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