Trying to help, Fanny puts up $20,000 so that Nick
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can become a theatrical agent, but he sees through
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her ploy and it angers and humiliates him. Desperate
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for money, he agrees to participate in a fraudulent
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bond deal and is arrested for embezzlement.
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Fanny realizes that somehow she has driven Nick to this:
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I add two and two, the most simple addition,
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Then swear that the figures are lying,
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I'm a much better comic than mathematician
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'Cause I'm better on stage than at intermission,
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And as far as the man is concerned,
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If I've been burned,
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I haven't learned.
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I know he's around when the sky and the ground start in ringing,
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I know that he's near by the thunder I hear in advance,
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His words--his words alone--are the words that can start my heart singing,
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And his is the only music that makes me dance.
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He'll sleep and he'll rise, in the light of two eyes that adore him.
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Bore him it might, but he won't leave my sight for a glance.
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In ev'ry way, ev'ry day, I need less of myself and need more him--more him,
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'Cause his is the only music that makes me dance,
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'Cause his is the only music that makes me dance.
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The Music That Makes Me Dance
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Barbra Streisand |