The Age of Rhythm (with Laurence Juber) - Al Stewart, Laurence Juber

Today I feel like Dorothy Parker

Today I’ve got the critical eye

I paint my world just a little bit darker

Don’t even have to try

Everyone seems a little bit desperate

Oh so witty, but over the edge

I don’t know why they try to impress you

With one foot on the window ledge

That’s just the way they play it

That’s just the way they are

Think up a line and say it

I’ll see you all later down at the bar

Don’t try to understand it

It won’t get you very far

Even the Great Pretender

Is really as naked a Hedy Lamarr

Today I feel like Dorothy Parker

Today I’m up here walking the floor

The light inside my head getting darker

Going to leave this town for sure

One block down and another block over

There’s a place that will make you a drink

The night is hot, I believe that I’ll go there

A password will get you in

Play a song by Hoagy Carmichael

Play that horn like Beiderbecke too

A glass or two of something you like’ll

Separate you from these blues

Life is a constant party

Swung to a shot of jazz

Even the broken-hearted

Can steal a feel of the razamatazz

This is the age of rhythm

These are the dancing years

Jump through the mirror with them

New York has no time for your tears

Today I feel like Dorothy Parker

Today I’ve got the critical eye

I paint my world just a little bit darker

Don’t even have to try