These Foolish Things

<br>(strachey/marvell/ link)<br><br><br><br><br><br>A cigarette that bears a lipsticks traces,<br><br>An airline ticket to romantic places,<br><br>And still my heart has wings...<br><br>These foolish things remind me of you.<br><br><br><br><br><br>A tinkling piano in the next apartment,<br><br>Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant,<br><br>A fairgrounds painted swings...<br><br>These foolish things remind me of you.<br><br><br><br><br><br>You came, you saw,<br><br>You conquered me.<br><br>When you did that to me,<br><br>I knew somehow this had to be.<br><br><br><br><br><br>The winds of march that made my heart a dancer,<br><br>A telephone that rings,<br><br>And whos to answer? <br><br>Oh, how the ghost of you clings...<br><br>These foolish things remind me of you.<br><br><br><br><br><br>The first daffodil and long excited cables,<br><br>And candle lights on little corner tables,<br><br>And still my heart has wings...<br><br>These foolish things remind me of you.<br><br><br><br><br><br>The park at evening when the bell has sounded,<br><br>The ile-de-france with all the gulls around it,<br><br>The beauty that is springs...<br><br>These foolish things remind me of you.<br><br><br><br><br><br>How strange, how sweet<br><br>To find you still,<br><br>These things are dear to me,<br><br>They seem to bring you near to me.<br><br><br><br><br><br>The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations,<br><br>Silk stockings tossed aside, dance invitations.<br><br>Oh, how the ghost of you clings!<br><br>These foolish things remind me of you...<br><br><br><br><br><br>These foolish things remind me of you.