Oh my god…Billie Holliday is singing “These Foolish Things” in my ear right now via my MP3 player. Everything else has to stop.
Oh my god…Billie Holliday is singing “These Foolish Things” in my ear right now via my MP3 player. Everything else has to stop.
How strange, how sweet
To find you still,
These things are dear to me,
They seem to bring you near to me.
The world often stops in situations like this. Be carefull!
*sniffle* Bryan Ferry’s version of this is ‘our’ song (and, given that part of ‘we’ is so far away…*resniffle* (of course, my taller, more Danish ‘we’ keeps trying to substitute in Eartha Kitt’s take…).
Though, when you (over)think about it, it’s up there with ‘My Funny Valentine’ or ‘Bill’ in terms of slanted compliments in American popular song.