Love - Herbie Mann

Day after day had passed

Shadows cast

Of long forgotten things

That I had failed to do

Passing through

Nameless places

Then I heard you speak

I held my breath and turned

Saw you, and heard you say to me

«Have you a cigarette?»

So we met, and love was something real and not a word

And there were times she took my breath away

She gave me thoughts to think and words to say

We were so happy then

Life began

When all at once

Her eyes grew cold

She spoke to me

Laughed at me

Telling me

That I was just a joke

She doesn’t want me now

Tells me how

All she ever wanted was to see me cry

And now I’m all alone, I know she’s satisfied

Now when she leaves she’ll take my life away

And so the curtain falls and ends the play

She’ll take my life away

She’ll take my life away