I'll Only Miss Her When I Think Of Her

I'll Only Miss Her When I Think Of Her
music by Jimmy Van Heusen (left)
lyric by Sammy Cahn (right)

I'll only miss her when I think of her,
And I think of her all the time.
Likely I'll spend my days hearing her turn of phrase,
Things I found hard to praise, right now would be sublime.

The truth is,
I'll only miss her when some stranger laughs,
'Cause it's still her laugh my heart hears.
Maybe in time, I guess, the longing will grow the slightest bit less,
And there will be moments, yes, when it disappears...

I'll bet I forget her completely in about a hundred years...