My mother’s sleeping with my uncle
my father’s dead, I’m confused
melancholy, angry
I got a bad case of the
Hamlet Blues, Hamlet Blues.
There’s gonna be a bloodbath soon.

I’m so crazy I’m contagious
my girlfriend got sick too
she walked into the river and she never came back
she had a fatal case of the
Hamlet Blues, Hamlet Blues

Outrageous fortune is my companion awake or asleep
the only question still worth asking – is can I keep
going on and on and on, or will I drown in this sea of troubles?

I’m in touch with the spirit world
a voice I trust gives me the news
don’t know what I want
but I think I know how to go about gettin’ it.
that’s the Hamlet Blues, Hamlet Blues.

We are all actors in this endless play-within-a-play
there’s no fourth wall, and there’s no illusions, it’s plain as day
we’re going down, down, down
we will drown in this sea of troubles.

There’s a goodly supply of deadly poison
and weapons for all to choose
there’ll be no one left standing
we’re all going down with the. . .
Hamlet Blues, Hamlet Blues, Hamlet Blues. . .
There’s gonna be a bloodbath. A massacre of the first degree.
Could be the start of World War Three. Gonna get my picture on TV.