Send in the Clowns (Act Two)

Shall I tell you why I really invited you here?
 When we met again and made love
 I thought, maybe here it is at last
 A chance to turn back
 To find some sort of coherent existence
 After so many years of muddle
 Of course there's your wife
 But I thought, perhaps
 Just perhaps
 You might be in need of rescue too
 From renewing my unrenewable youth?
 It was only a thought
 When my eyes are open and I look at you
 I see a woman that I have loved for a long time
 Who entranced me
 All over again when I came to her rooms
 It gives me such genuine pleasure
 That in spite of myself
 I came here for the sheer delight
 Of being with her again
 The woman who could rescue me?
 Of course
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 But when my eyes are not open
 Which is most of the time
 All I see is a girl in a pink dress
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 Teasing a canary
 Running through a sunlit garden to hug me at the gate
 As if I'd come home from Timbuktu
 Instead of the Municipal Courthouse three blocks away
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 Isn't it rich?
 Are we a pair?
 Me here at last on the ground
 You in mid-air
 Send in the clowns
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 Isn't it bliss?
 Don't you approve?
 One who keeps tearing around
 One who can't move
 Where are the clowns?
 Send in the clowns
 Just when I'd stopped opening doors
 Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours
 Making my entrance again with my usual flair
 Sure of my lines
 No one is there
 Don't you love farce?
 My fault, I fear
 I thought that you'd want what I want
 Sorry, my dear
 But where are the clowns?
 Quick, send in the clowns
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 Don't bother, they're here
 I'm sorry, Desiree
 I should never have come
 To flirt with rescue
 When one has not intention of being saved...
 Do try to forgive me
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 Isn't it rich?
 Isn't it queer?
 Losing my timing this late in my career
 And where are the clowns?
 There ought to be clowns
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 Well, maybe next year