Amazing how songs find their way to you like a child that suddenly climbs up your lap just when you're trying to remember what it is that has just crossed your mind. It's for those moments when there is that that you feel but just couldn't name.
For us who've been there, and are still there, here's an Ira and George Gershwin creation (and I thought they're wife and husband team). They too are responsible for another song that speaks to some lone figures in some dark corners, Someone to Watch Over Me.
Comfort while your hands beat away on keyboards on a night of all work and nothing else in sight.
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But Not for Me
They're writing songs of love,
but not for me.
A lucky star's above,
but not for me.
With love to lead the way
I've found more clouds of grey
than any Russian play could guarantee.
I was a fool to fall and get that way;
Heigh-ho! Alas! And also, lack-a-day!
Although I can't dismiss
the mem'ry of his kiss,
I guess he's not for me.
He's knocking on a door,
but not for me.
He'll plan a two by four,
but not for me.
I know that love's a game;
I'm puzzled, just the same,
was I the moth or flame?
I'm all at sea.
It all began so well, but what an end!
This is the time a feller needs a friend,
(this time a girl could sure use a friend)
when ev'ry happy plot ends with the marriage knot,
and there's no knot for me.
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