“Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade.”

—  Yip Harburg

"It's Only a Paper Moon" (1933) (co-written with Billy Rose).
Context: Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade. It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me.

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American song lyricist 1896–1981

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