Nat King Cole - Try Not To Cry (2003) by Nat King Cole (보컬) on maniadb.com

(Jimmy Van Heusen, Mack David)

It wasn't my intention to eavesdrop,
But there a guy sat, two stools away,
And you could tell the bartender knew him
And that he'd been there some other day.
And while I sipped my libation,
I overheard his conversation...

"Re---member
How I'd walk in,
What excitement there would be?
Never less than twenty people,
I had lots of friends, you see.

"I gave the party, I was the host.
Everyone loved me,
I was the most.

"Champagne and plenty of it,
Real imported caviar,
And the hat check girl got fifty
Just for lighting my cigar.

"I kept 'em laughin', jokes by the yard.
Everyone loved me,
I was a card.

"And I had a girl,
A beautiful girl,
Her whole world, I think, consisted of mink
And diamonds and pearls.

"Because she was mine,
I'd glitter and shine,
And life was a ball, and wasn't it all
So cozy 'n fine?

"But nothing lasts forever,
And the deepest well runs dry.
Just 'cause I've stopped rolling sevens
Doesn't mean I have to cry.

"I'll take that nightcap,
One more won't show.
And incidentally...maybe you know...
Where, oh, where, oh, where
Did everyone go?"

"Where, oh, where, oh, where
Did everyone go?"

(Irving Berlin)


Say it isn't so...
Say it isn't so.
Everyone is saying you don't love me,
Say it isn't so.


Everywhere I go,
Everyone I know
Whispers that you're growing tired of me,
Say it isn't so.


People say that you
Found somebody new,
And it won't be long before you leave me,
Say it isn't true.


Say that everything is still okay,
That's all I want to know.
And what they're saying,
Say it isn't so.


People say passing by
Say he's younger than I
And it won't be long before you leave me,
Tell me it's a lie.


Say that everything is still okay,
That's all I want to know.
And what they're saying,
Say it isn't so.

-Artist: Nat King Cole
-Words and Music by Benny Davis and Abner Silver
-Charted at # 19 in 1958 by Joni James


There goes my heart, there goes the one I love
There goes the girl I wasn't worthy of
There goes my happiness, it couldn't be
There goes somebody else in place of me

Goodbye romance, it couldn't last somehow
I had my chance but it's all over now
I never thought that she could pass me by
There goes my heart and here am I

<instrumental interlude>

I never thought that she could pass me by
There goes my heart and here am I

(Harry Warren, Mack Gordon)


This is our last dance together,
Tonight soon will be long ago.
And in our moment of parting,
This is all I want you to know...


There will be many other nights like this,
And I'll be standing here with someone new.
There will be other songs to sing,
Another fall...another spring...
But there will never be another you.


There will be other lips that I may kiss,
But they won't thrill me,
Like yours used to do.
Yes, I may dream a million dreams,
But how can they come true,
If there will never, ever be another you?


~interlude~


Yes, I may dream a million dreams,
But how can they come true,
If there will never, ever be...
Another you?

(M. Edwards, B. Green)


Once in a while,
Will you try
To give one little thought to me,
Though someone else may be
Nearer your heart?


Once in a while,
Will you dream
Of the moments
I shared with you,
Moments before we two
Drifted apart?


In love's smoldering ember,
One spark may remain.
If love still can remember,
That spark may burn again.


I know that I'll
Be contented with
Yesterday's memory,
Knowing you think of me
Once in a while.


~interlude~


Once in a while...


In love's smoldering ember,
One spark may remain.
If love still can remember,
The spark may burn again.


I know that I'll
Be contented with
Yesterday's memory,
Knowing you think of me
Once in a while...
Once in a while.

And now the purple dusk of twilight time
Steals across the meadows of my heart
High up in the sky the little stars climb
Always reminding me that we're apart
You wander down the lane and far away
Leaving me a song that will not die
Love is now the stardust of yesterday
The music of the years gone by
Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely night dreaming of a song
The melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
But that was long ago
Now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song
Beside a garden wall
When stars are bright
You are in my arms
The nightingale tells his fairy tale
A paradise where roses bloom
Though I dream in vain
In my heart it will remain
My stardust melody
The memory of love's refrain

(Johnny Burke)




Better face the facts, ol' buddy,
And be prepared to take the blow.
You don't have to sit and study,
It's something anyone should know.
Shake hands... get your hat...
And go.


You can praise her eyes,
And adore her hair.
But if love ain't there,
It ain't there.


And you can walk her home
In the warm spring air,
But if love ain't there,
It ain't there.


And you can look
With a longing in your look,
And try every method in the book
And worship the smile that kind of
Took you unaware.


And you can weep and sigh,
You can say, "Unfair".
You can almost die of despair.
But if love ain't there,
It ain't there.

The stars would cry in the blue if you said no
Their tears would fall like the dew if you said no
The fragrance of the flowers would fade if you turned away
And the warmth of the summer day would leave me so cold

So hold me close in your arms and don't say no
And never ask me to leave, how could I go?
The countless stars in the heavens are trembling above
So don't say no, I beg of you, don't say no to my love

The countless stars in the heavens are trembling above
So don't say no, I beg of you, don't say no to my love

(M. Gordon, H. Revel)


Oh...there's a lull in my life.
It's just a void, an empty space,
When you are not in my embrace.


Oh...there's a lull in my life.
The moment that you go away,
There is no night, there is no day.


The clock stops ticking,
The world stops turning.
Everything stops
But that flame in my heart
That keeps burning...burning...


Oh...there's a lull in my life.
No matter I may pretend,
I know that you alone can end
The ache in my heart,
The call of my arms...
The lull in my life.