In scene seven Blanche sings the “sappy folk ballad” (59) Paper Moon (Arlen, Harburg and Rose) while in the bathtub. The lyric, “But it wouldn't be a pretence, if you believed in me” (59), echoes Blanche's failure to tell the truth, her false statements, and her desire for magic. Incorporating the key refrain into Blanche's first entrance and final exit separated the drama from Williams' presence on stage and implied that if someone had truly believed in her and loved her, perhaps none of this would have happened. Varsouviana's polka was included in the second panel because it is a recurring motif “forever associated in Blanche's mind with the betrayal of love and the death of a loved one” (Alder 71). Described by Irene Selznick as Blanche's "memory music". . . this was the first musical element that William integrated into the draft script of the opera” (Davison 402). The deliberate incorporation of only fragments of the melody demonstrated “the disintegration of Blanche's mental state”