He Always Felt Like Dancing

There's a neighbor with a doggy
 Why, she looks so lost and lonely
 Walking down the Filbert Steps
 Past the tables at Trieste
 Like she swallowed a sleeping pill
 On her way down Telegraph Hill
 There's a 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 koi 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 heavy
 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 breath
 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 walk
 She still hears his call
 From her bay window
 On Broadway
 Some nights she thinks
 She still hears his feet squeak
 On her apartment floor
 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 led 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 up 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