these foolish things (remind me of you)

oh! will you never let me be?

oh! will you never set me free?

the ties that bound us

are still around us

there's no escape that i can see

and still those little things remain

that bring me happiness or pain

a cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces

an airline ticket to romantic places

and still my heart has wings

these foolish things remind me of you

a tinkling piano in the next apartment

those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant

a fair ground's painted swings

these foolish things remind me of you

you came you saw you conquer'd me

when you did that to me

i knew somehow this had to be

the winds of march that make my heart a dancer

a telephone that rings but who's to answer?

oh

how the ghost of you clings!

these foolish things remind me of you

first daffodils and long excited cables

and candle lights on little corner tables

and still my heart has wings

these foolish things remind me of you

the park at evening when the bell has sounded

the ile de france" with all the gulls around it