Lover

Lover

music by Richard Rodgers (left)
lyric by Lorenz Hart (right)

When you held your hand to my heart
Dear, you did something grand to my heart.
And we played the scene to perfection though we didn't have time to rehearse.
Since you took control of my life you have become the whole of my life.
When you are away, it's awful, and when you are with me, it's worse...

Lover, when I'm near you and I hear you speak my name
Softly, in my ear you breathe a flame.
Lover, when we're dancing keep on glancing in my eyes,
Till love's own entrancing music dies.

All of my future is in you.
You're ev'ry plan I design.
Promise me that you'll continue to be mine...

Lover, please be tender, when you're tender fears depart.
Lover, I surrender to my heart.

Lover, when I'm near you and I hear you speak my name
Softly, in my ear you breathe a flame.
Lover, it's immoral but why quarrel with our bliss
When two lips of coral want to kiss?

I say, "The devil is in you," and to resist you I try,
But if you didn't continue I would die!

Lover, please be tender, when you're tender fears depart.
Lover, I surrender to my heart...