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Dead-shinobi
hate the lyrics tho. yeah suuure he didn't mind staying past the working hours listening to your drunk bs. also drinking for your 'baby' is so cringe. and don't get me started on drinking 'for the road'
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silversurfer250
Harold Arlen described the song as "another typical Arlen tapeworm" – a "tapeworm" being the trade slang for any song which went over the conventional 32 bar length[citation needed]. He called it "a wandering song. [Lyricist] Johnny [Mercer] took it and wrote it exactly the way it fell. Not only is it long – forty-eight bars – but it also changes key. Johnny made it work." In the opinion of Arlen's biographer, Edward Jablonski, the song is "musically inevitable, rhythmically insistent, and in that mood of 'metropolitan melancholic beauty' that writer John O'Hara finds in all of Arlen's music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_for_My_Baby_%28and_One_More_for_the_Road%29
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