The We of Me

CON TE PARTIRO... sung by Andrea Bocelli

Funny we know nothing about losing someone

Until they are walking away

Until they are gone

When the void becomes real

When all the silent beauty

Is loud with passing

And all the love songs ever written

Become merely words

Words spoken in haste

Never time to stop and care

No moments to give

Until the moment is passed

--Joanne Dyhrkopp

Listen to Zoot Sims playing Once We Loved...

Passage of time

If I should lose you.... Charlie "Yardbird" Parker

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

But many loved your moments of glad grace

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

From "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats

Love to Last

Bill Evans ..Plays for Lovers ..most recordings 1956-62

They are not long,the weeping and the laughter,

Love and Desire and hate:

I think they have to not portion in us after

We pass the gate.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:

Out of a misty dream

Our path emerges ofr a while, then closes

Within a dream.

--Ernest Dowson

Looking Back

Spoon's Life Blues---Jimmy Witherspoon

Dear as remembered kisses after death

And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned

Oh lips that are for others;deep as love,

Deep as first love, and wild with all regret

Oh death in Life, the days that are no more

--Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Falling in Love

I'm getting Sentimental


over you--Ella Fitzgerald

Stan Getz--All the things that you are

Chet Baker--How high the Moon

And of Course--- Miles Davis.. My Funny Valentine

Moving On

Someone Else is Steppin In..Buddy Guy

"...these soft

nights hold me like themselves aloft

and I lie without a lover"

--Rainer Maria Rilke, Summer 1909

You Done Tore your Playhouse Down Again...

--King Biscuit Boy (aka Richard Newell)

Longing

Miles Davis--It Never Entered my Mind

I'm a fool to want you-- by Dexter Gordon

Had I known

My longing would be so great

Like a clear mirror

I'd have looked on you-

Not missing a day

Not even an hour

--Lady Otomo of Sakaroue