Where Are the Songs We Sung? - Noël Coward

Where are the songs we sung

When love in our hearts was young?

Where, in the limbo of the swiftly passing years

Lie all our hopes and dreams and fears?

Where have they gone, words that rang so true

When love in our hearts was new?

Where, in the shadows that we have to pass among

Lie those songs that once we sung?

Once in a lifetime when we are very, very young

And love comes out to greet us for the first time

We open wide our arms and say to him

«This is the only and the last time!»

That young surrender

We can remember when some little tune

Recalls our hearts to vanished splendour

Like organ music in a sunny street

So sweetly flat, so sadly tender

And so when love again rides by

We sometimes sigh

Where are the songs we sung

When love in our hearts was young?

Can you remember all the foolish things we said

The plans we planned, the tears we shed?

Where is it now, that enchanted dawn

When love in our hearts was born?

Where, in the shadows that we have to pass among

Lie those songs that once we sung?