Jazz band warming up, already too hot room
The light keeps getting softer, more drinks to pass around
Then it's a smile and a dance, a chat beneath the stars
The frolic of a clarinet solo
Streaming through my mind
It's midnight under the bohemian moon
All you hear is Jump! Bop! Rock!
Smooth
Play daddy play, sing out your whole soul
On and on it goes and the people dance
They get high and drunk on the liquid air
As time slows down and the walls sweat
With exhaustion
Then it's slow, s l o w, s l o w
Like gin over ice cream
And it's clinging to one another
On the dance floor of tonight
Spinning free through space
The gentile Russell of a leafy whisk-tapped
Beat
The sexy sway of a double bass's
Hips
Yet still a quiet wail silks across the room
From shimmering Diva lips
So like those inches away
