Loveless Love - Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, Harry "Sweets" Edison

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