Song of the Week – Upper Middle Class Blues

(c) 2001 Kevin Edward Rose.  All rights reserved.

One night several years ago, my friends Paul McKenna and Steve Keefer and I were sitting on a deck playing guitars.  Eventually we started playing the blues.   As Paul was playing, something struck me as being a little off.

Besides being a good looking, outgoing guy with more musical talent than most of us can even aspire to, Paul is a successful architect and project manager with a beautiful wife (OK, we all three have beautiful wives, but that’s beside the point), a nice home, and two great kids.  I had to ask myself, why was Paul playing the blues?

I wrote this song the next day.

-Kevin