Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
Cole Porter (w/m)
Seven Lively Arts, 1944
VERSE
We love each other so deeply
That I ask you this, sweetheart,
Why should we quarrel ever,
Why can't we be enough clever
Never to part?
REFRAIN 1
Everytime we say goodbye,
I die a little,
Everytime we say goodbye,
I wonder why a little,
Why the gods above me,
Who must be in the know
Think so little of me
They allow you to go.
REFRAIN 2
When you're near, there's such an air
Of spring about it,
I can hear a lark somewhere,
Begin to sing about it,
There's no love song finer,
But how strange the change
From major to minor,
Everytime we say goodbye.