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That was my way of leading up
to two literary blues, which

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are meant as songs
without condition.

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The first is "The
Sometime Dancer Blues."

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"When the lights go on uptown,
why do you feel so low, honey?

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Why do you feel so low down?

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When the piano and
the trombone start,

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why do you feel so blue,
honey, like a rubber glove

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had reached in for your heart?

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Oh, when the dancers
take the floor,

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why don't you step
on out, honey?

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Why won't you step
out with them anymore?

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The stars are
gone, and the night

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is dark, except for
the radium, honey,

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that glows in the hands
of the bedside clock--

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the little hands that
go around and around,

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oh, as silently as time,
honey, without a sound,

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without a sound."

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