(Verlaine)
| Down,
| Down in the cool.
| Into the hundred,
| Into the hundred shades of red,
| Here in the South, I think you'll find,
| People, they make their own entertainments,
| In the deep, and
| And watch me flirt,
| Watch me flirt, it's so graceful,
| Deep, deep, deep,
| Deeply dark,
| Warm and bright,
| It's something to see,
| It's something to say,
| It's something to do.
|
| Smoother than Jones,
| Smoother than Jones,
| Smoother than Jones will ever see.
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| You are a special effect.
|
| Down,
| Down in the cool,
| Into the hundred,
| Into the hundred shades of red,
| Here in the South, the wind in the trees,
| The wind in the trees.
| It is another sweet,
| Sweet, so sweet,
| Sleep, and you dream awake,
| It's something to see,
| It's something to say,
| It's something to do.
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| Smoother than Jones,
| Smoother than Jones,
| Smoother than Jones could ever be.
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| Love's got me laughing,
| She said,
| Love's got me laughing,
| Love's got me laughing,
| At love.
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| She told me things like,
| There's a little bit of death in you,
| Sometimes pink and sometimes blue,
| Just a little bit of death in you,
| It's light and lively and shines right through,
| The love I see
| Is something to see
| Is something to say
| Is something to do.
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| Smoother than Jones,
| Smoother than Jones,
| Smoother than Jones could ever be.
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| Love's got me laughing,
| Laughing at love,
| She says love's got me laughing,
| At love
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| Smoother Than Jones
| | Tom Verlaine |
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