My Heart Stood Still

My Heart Stood Still

music by Richard Rodgers (left)

lyric by Lorenz Hart (right)

I laughed at sweethearts I met at schools;

All indiscreet hearts seemed romantic fools.

(The boys at Harrow would always say that Cupid's arrow couldn't fly my way.)

A house in Iceland was my heart's domain.

I saw your eyes; now castles rise in Spain!

I took one look at you, that's all I had to do,

And then my heart stood still!

My feet could step and walk, my lips could move and talk,

And yet my heart stood still!

Though not a single word was spoken, I could tell you knew.

That unfelt clasp of hands told me so well you knew.

I never lived at all until the thrill of that moment when my heart stood still.

Through all my school days I hated boys;

(In Heathfield school days I hated boys.)

Those April fool days brought me loveless joys.

I read my Pluto, love I thought a sin,

But since your kiss I'm reading Missus Glynn!

I took one look at you, that's all I meant to do,

And then my heart stood still!

My feet could step and walk, my lips could move and talk,

And yet my heart stood still!

Though not a single word was spoken, I could tell you knew.

That unfelt clasp of hands told me so well you knew.

I never lived at all until the thrill of that moment when my heart stood stil...