He Always Felt Like Dancing-Mark Kozelek/Jimmy Lavalle

There's the neighbor with the doggie why she looks so lost and lonely walking down the Filbert Steps past the fables at Trieste like she's swallowed a sleeping pill on her way down Telegraph Hill There's the woman who wore the smile who had the poise and the graceful style now she seems to walk in circles like a lazy backyard turtle her eyes are sadder than a fawn than an empty coy fish pond When she used to walk in her door he would rise up from the floor and when their eyes met, he always felt he always felt like dancing and he always wanted to bring love and he always filled the room with spirit The miles they traveled were long and many they lived in Paris when she was twenty and then they moved to San Francisco went back and forth to Orange County the miles they traveled were long and far and there in the passenger seat of her car he took his last breathe and she kissed him and she wept and she wept in the driver's seat there in the summer heat he always wanted to go to the ocean and he always kept her in constant motion and he filled her heart with happiness At the end of her hall she still hears his call from her bay window on Broadway some night she thinks she still hears his feet squeak on her apartment floors on Broadway There's the woman with the neighbors who used to kindly stop and greet her until they sensed her emptiness and now they stop her less and less now she walks beside a shadow like she's lead off to the gallows for he's the loveliest thing she's ever known but in time her dampened flame will grow and in time with his passing she'll make peace and in time the ocean she will reach and in time she'll fall into a trance and in her dreams again they will dance and one morning she'll wake with a smile that beams and she'll honor him but learn to love other things and they'll always slow dance in her dreams and they'll always slow dance in her dreams and they'll always slow dance in her dreams and they'll always slow dance in her dreams and they'll always slow dance in her dreams and they'll always slow dance in her dreams and they'll always slow dance in her dreams