Ginger And David - Carla Bley, The Jazz Composer's Orchestra

Roomer:

Watery-blue they lie and are lied to

Used woman:

Good David the curator is good for her

Trained for things to come

Roomer:

Paid to keep a shirt on his back

Cecil clark:

And his back turned

Nurse:

Pale Ginger living off premises

A long walk in the cold

Used woman:

A sickman she’d sought for the night

To fuck her to sleep

Cecil clark and leader:

To an insisting —

Used woman:

Together burdening with belief —

Nurse:

Amid loudspeakers —

Clark and leader:

— Repellent flash —

Woman:

— Their feather-brained pillows —

Nurse:

— And temporary —

Clark and leader:

— The flash a nasty thing

Woman:

— Two living coldly as one

Nurse:

— Light

Clark and leader:

— Done to time.

The man kind

Woman:

To show she would say she could see

What that had to do with reality

Without flashing