Same in Blues

I said to my baby, 
Baby, take it slow.
I can't, she said, I can't! 
I got to go!

    There's a certain 
    amount of traveling 
    in a dream deferred.

Lulu said to Leonard, 
I want a diamond ring. 
Leonard said to Lulu,
You won't get a goddamn thing!

    A certain
    amount of nothing 
    in a dream deferred.

Daddy, daddy, daddy, 
All I want is you.

You can have me, baby—
but my lovin' days is through.

    A certain
    amount of impotence 
    in a dream deferred.

Three parties 
On my party line—
But that third party, 
Lord, ain't mine!

    There's liable
    to be confusion 
    in a dream deferred.

From river to river,
Uptown and down,
There's liable to be confusion 
when a dream gets kicked around.