Heart Upon Demand

I dreamed of Judy Garland and of her bottled blues
 Resting in a dressing room, shaking star dust from her shoes
 She spoke of her beginnings at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 And of touching millions with no one really there
 A child of the movies in a pyrite golden age
 I never knew the price she paid for a life upon that stage.
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 Judy had that catch in her voice
 That put your heart into her hand
 Judy, she had trouble, Judy had no choice
 But to give her heart upon demand
 She had to give her heart upon demand
 She had trouble sleeping and waking for the day
 With studio prescriptions to keep her thin and fey
 They'd work her to exhaustion propelled by benzedrine
 Then call her unreliable if she would miss a scene
 From vaudeville in Grand Rapids to the walkway of the stars
 Who'd have known a girl so young could have gone that far?
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 The Palladium in London, the Palace in New York
 The come-back of a trouper when God wondered at her work
 She asked me of the movie stars and singers of today
 I said I couldn't think of one she wouldn't blow away
 She laughed and then she thanked me and said she had to go
 For there were rainbows waiting down along a golden road
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 I dreamed of Judy Garland all on a summer's night
 Resting in a dressing room packing stardust for her flight