Sixteen Blue

The Replacements * Track #10 On Let It Be

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Album Let It Be

ALBUM

The Replacements

1984

Sixteen Blue by The Replacements

Release Date

Tue Oct 02 1984

Performed by

The Replacements

Produced by

Steve Fjelstad & Peter Jesperson & Paul Westerberg

Writed by

Paul Westerberg

About

The second to last track on the band’s seminal album Let it Be, “Sixteen Blue” is a clear cry of adolescence. Being a teenager really isn’t that fun, and this song is the more eloquent way to state that.

Says Paul Westerberg of the song (from the book All Over But the Shouting):

In a way 16 (is th...

Sixteen Blue Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Drive yourself right up the wall
No one hears and no one calls
It's a boring state
It's a useless wait, I know

Brag about things you don't understand
A girl and a woman, a boy and a man
Everything's sexually vague
Now you're wondering to yourself if you might be gay

[Chorus]
Your age is the hardest age
Everything drags and drags
One day, baby, maybe help you through

[Verse 2]
Drive your ma to the bank
Tell your pa you got a date
But you're lying
Now you're lying on your back

Trying to figure out, they wonder what next you'll pull
You don't understand anything sexual
I don't understand
Tell my friends I'm doing fine

[Chorus]
And your age is the hardest age
Everything drags and drags
You're looking funny, you ain't laughing, are you?
Sixteen blue
Sixteen
Sixteen

[Chorus]
Your age is the hardest age
Everything drags and drags
You're looking funny, you ain't laughing, are you?
Sixteen blue
Sixteen blue
Sixteen blue
Sixteen blue
Sixteen blue
Sixteen blue
You're mine, if you want to

Sixteen Blue Q&A

Who wrote Sixteen Blue's ?

Sixteen Blue was written by Paul Westerberg.

Who produced Sixteen Blue's ?

Sixteen Blue was produced by Steve Fjelstad & Peter Jesperson & Paul Westerberg.