This Burt Bacharach Hal David song is a good example of the transmutation of the Blues lyric into the more specific love song As a Blues  the singer  because of his/her general condition  and or specifics like poverty  illness  liquor or violence  would wake up with the blues  in fact would probably go to sleep with the blues  and after waking up in the same condition  find the blues not only in their bed but in their breakfast and worst of all: inside their head