"I Was Blind" — the blues man on his own former inability to see clearly.
I was blind and I could not see
That you were gettin' away from me
But now I know that you are gone
I live by the night
And slumber through the day
Because life don't seem worth livin' anyway
If I could only see
Life would be so miserable to me
Tell me why my love want leave me in misery
Oh, now I haven't be true
But this one I want to be my wife
So baby please, please think of you and me
If I could only see
Life would be so miserable to me
Why would the one I love want to leave me in misery
Oh, haven't been true all of my life
Ah, but this one I want, want her to be my wife
So baby please, baby please think of you and me
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- A B.B. King recording. The past blindness — I couldn't see then what I see now — is the blues tradition at its most retrospectively self-aware.