In Love In Vain

In Love In Vain
music by Jerome Kern (left)
lyric by Leo Robin

Love can be a blessing, but also most depressing,
And I don't mind confessing that I feel mighty blue!

It's only human for anyone to want to be in love,
But who wants to be in love in vain?
At night you hang around the house and eat your heart out,
And cry your eyes out and wrack your brain.

You sit and wonder why anyone as wonderful as she/he
Should cause you such misery and pain.
I thought that I would be in heaven but I'm only up a tree,
'Cause it's just my luck to be in love in vain.

You sit and wonder why anyone as wonderful as she/he
Should cause you such misery and pain.
I thought that I'd have easy sailing but instead, I'm all at sea,
'Cause it's just my luck to be in love in vain...