If this trouble don't leave me Gonna rock on away from here. The ordered and predictable quality of Blues music assists in the containment and processing of such depressive and persecutory anxieties. Of course, much Blues music involves verbal in addition to nonverbal symbolization. The thing about blues musically is that it doesn't really go anywhere. This characterizes both the harmonic composition and lyrics, and much of the melody.
Blues travels from Chicago back to Memphis, Memphis back to Louisiana.
Not Paris back to New York, which is jazz, not America back to Africa, which is history. I love you baby, I love you with all my heart. I need you, I need you, I need you by my side. Africans were scooped up, dumped and enslaved, as a people traumatized beyond our imagination. At the same time, early blues unconsciously disguised the true nature of the music from the slaveowner enough to get away with being allowed to sing.