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Enjoy listening to the narration by Anneliese Dahl, with accompanying music as you read. Music is “Blue Mood” by Robert Munzinger at YouTube Music Library
Lena sings the Blues
The velvet words favor the night, calling so insistent and tender to me, as the voice folds inside saxophone prayers. I’m immersed in drowsy syncopations, and long, breathless expectations, as I step in from the street. — — — -ф — — -— — It’s an old bar that’s half empty and far away from any dreams, just a mix of young couples and old men with the broken look of the blues writ hard on them seen in steel eyes and wry smiles. — — — -ф — — -— — Tonight I bring my old guitar and my nerves, and my fears, “If not here, then where, when?” Lena smiles and kisses my cheek, winking at the drunks at the bar with their hopeful dreams of her. — — — -ф — — -— — It always becomes quiet in here when Lena sings the blues, and tonight my guitar hums along. Notes cascade and fly like whispers, a music of heart and memory, and smoke and water…and regret. — — — -ф — — -— — Her voice, smoky, sexy in its promises, makes you weep gratefully from the memories they bring, while the caress of her piano dries your inescapable tears with soft, comforting hands.
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