a similar experience happened with
> 'moon at the window' from WTRF. there is the line " people don't know how
to
> love, they taste it and toss it, turn it off and on like a bathtub faucet
" (
> ooh,ooh...)  the love/faucet idea is from an old jazz standard,
> which also escapes me, i am almost certain it is on a billie holiday
> recording in my collection.

Billie's blues tune 'Fine and Mellow' uses this simile:

Love is like a faucet
It turns off and on
Love is just like a faucet
It turns off and on
Sometimes when you thing it's on, baby
It has turned off and gone

I think it's probable that it was used before Billie put it in that song,
too.

Mark E in Seattle

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