Blue Smoke Dreams

[More paraphrase than translation of a Post WWII Korean jazz ballad by the Kim Sisters, sung mournfully as if for an Asian gangster film noir.] === Exhaling blue smoke wherein Faded memories brighten I murmur the lyrics with the house band In a calming below-street jazz club. There's no way to recover lost dreams. Love long lost, Memories crying for recognition, And I crave the blues After exhaling blue smoke, When faded memories brighten. I miss the old songs that flowed Like blood of scented roses Drinking slowly in a subterranean lair Listening quietly, there is no way To recapture that surge in my heart. Youth is gone but a gaping wound remains And I crave the blues while I miss the old songs that flowed Like blood of scented roses.