Novembro, Sem Título 24 / November, Untitled 24

Foolin' Myself

Billie Holiday

I tell myself
"I'm through with love

And I'll having nothing more to do with you"

I stay away, but every day

I'm just foolin' myself

I tell my friends that I don't care

I shrug my shoulders at the whole affair

But all know it isn't so

I'm just foolin' myself

And ev'ry time I pass

And see my face in a looking glass

I tip my hat and say

"How do you do, you fool

You're trowing your life away"

I'm acting gay

I'm acting proud

And every time I see you in a crowd

I may pretend

But in the end

I'm just foolin' myself

"In my solitude, you haunt me"

Solitude - Billie Holiday
(Delange, Eddie; Mills, Irving; Ellington, Edward)

 In my solitude
You haunt me
With dreadful ease
Of days gone by

In my solitude
You taunt me
With memories
That never die

I sit in my chair
And filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude
I'm afraid
Dear Lord above
Send back my love

I sit in my chair
And filled with despair
There's no one could be so sad
With gloom everywhere
I sit and I stare
I know that I'll soon go mad

In my solitude
I'm afraid
Dear Lord above
Send me back my love

"You took my lips, you took my love, so tenderly."

Tenderly - Billie Holiday

(Walter Gross and Jack Lawrence)

The evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly
The trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly
Then you and I came wandering by and lost in a sigh were we
The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly
I can't forget how two hearts met breathlessly

Your arms opened wide and closed me inside
You took my lips, you took my love so tenderly
Your arms opened wide and closed me inside
You took my lips, you took my love so tenderly

"If you were mine, I'd live for your love alone..."

If You Were Mine - Billie Holiday

If you were mine
I could be a ruler of kings
And if you were mine
I could do such wonderful things
I'd say to a star
Stop where you are
Light up my lover's way
And every star above you
Would obey, say
If you were mine
I would live for your love alone
To kneel at your shrine
I would give up all that I own
Yes even my heart
Even my life
I'd trade it all for you
And think I was lucky too
If you were mine

"You came, you saw, you conquered me"

These Foolish Things - Billie Holiday

(Jack Strachey / Harry Link / Holt Marvell / Eric Maschwitz)

A cigarette that bares a lipstick's traces

An airline ticket to romantic places

Still my heart has wings

These foolish things remind me of you.

A tinkling piano in the next apartment

Those stumblin' words

That told you what my heart meant

A fair ground painted swings

These foolish things remind me of you.

You came, you saw, you conquered me

When you did that to me

I knew somehow this had to be

The winds of march that made my heart a dancer

A telephone that rings but who's to answer

Oh, how the ghost of you clings

These foolish things remind me of you

Três desenhos para uma música./ Three drawings for one song.

You go to my head - Billie Holiday

You go to my head and you linger like a haunting refrain
And I find you spinning 'round in my brain
Like the bubbles in a glass of champagne
You go to my head like a sip of sparkling Burgundy brew
And I find the very mention of you
Like the kicker in a julep or two

The thrill of the thought that you might 

give a thought to my plea
Cast a spell over me
Still I say to myself get a hold of yourself
Can't you see that it never can be

You go to my head with a smile that 

makes my temperature rise
Like a summer with a thousand Julys
You intoxicate my soul with your eyes
Though I'm certain that this heart of mine
Hasn't a ghost of a chance in this crazy romance
You go to my head
You go to my head

Though I'm certain that this heart of mine
Hasn't a ghost of a chance in this crazy romance
You go to my head
You go to my head

"I'm a fool to want you..."

I'm a Fool To Want You - Billie Holiday

I'm a fool to want you
I'm a fool to want you
To want a love that can't be true
A love that's there for others too

I'm a fool to hold you
Such a fool to hold you
To seek a kiss not mine alone
To share a kiss that Devil has known

Time and time again I said I'd leave you
Time and time again I went away
But then would come the time when I would need you
And once again these words I had to say

Take me back, I love you
...I need you
I know it's wrong, it must be wrong
But right or wrong I can't get along

Without you