Isn’t It A Pity?
(Gershwin)
Why did I wander
Here and there and yonder
Wasting precious time
For no reason or rhyme
Isn’t it a pity
Isn’t it a crime
My journey is ended
Everything is splendid
Meeting you today
Has given me a wonderful idea
Here I stay
It’s a funny thing
I look at you
I get a thrill I never knew
Isn’t it a pity we never met before
Here we are at last
It’s like a dream
The two of us, a perfect team,
Isn’t it a pity we never met before
Imagine all the lonely years we’ve wasted
You with the neighbors
I at silly labors
What joys untasted
You reading Heine
Me somewhere in China
Let’s forget the past, let’s both agree
That I’m for you and you’re for me
And it’s such a pity we never, never met before
Imagine all the lonely years you wasted
Fishing for salmon
Losing at backgammon
What joys untasted
My nights were sour
Spent with Schopenhauer
Let’s forget the past, let’s both agree
That I’m for you and you’re for me
And it’s such a pity we never, never met before
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(Secretly waiting for the one who has wasted years reading Heine and Schopenhauer, or fishing for salmon and losing at backgammon. I am here, wasting my precious years too.)
