Where Or When

when you're awake

the things you think

come from the dreams you dream

thought has wings,

and lots of things

are seldom what they see

sometimes you think you've lived before

all that you live today

things you do come back to you

as though they knew the way

oh, the tricks your mind can play



it seems we stood and talked like this before

we looked at each other in the same way then

but I can't remember where or when

the clothes you're wearing and the clothes you wore

the smile you are smiling you were smiling then

but I can't remember where or when

some things that happen for the first time

seem to be happening again

and so it seems that we have met before

and laughed before

and loved before

but who knows where or when



it seems we stood and talked like this before

we looked at each other in the same way then

but I can't remember where or when

the clothes you're wearing and the clothes you wore

the smile you are smiling you were smiling then

but I can't remember where or when

some things that happen for the first time

seem to be happening again

and so it seems that we have met before

and laughed before

and loved before

but who knows where or when



(Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart)


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