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