Loveless Love-Duke Ellington/Johnny Hodges

Love is like a hydrant: it turns off and on Like some friendships when your money's gone Love stands in with the loan sharks when your heart's in pawn If I had some strong wings like an aeroplane Had some broad wings like some aeroplane I would fly away forever Never to come again For love, oh, love, oh, loveless love Has set our hearts from gold-less gold From milk-less milk and silk-less silk We are growing used to soul-less souls Such grafting times we never saw That's why we have a pure full law In everything we find a flaw Even love, oh, love, oh, loveless love Just to fly away from loveless love