"Without Music Life Would be A Mistake"- Nietzsche

I posted yesterday about a song that I didn't like, in fact that horrifying ditty left me feeling queezy. I want to offer a song that I find sublime. Nat King Cole did it first, but I like this stripped down version by little, kicky & cute lesbian crooner- Erin McKeown.




You promised me you'd come back,
I promised to wait.
But I was a little too lonely,
& you were a little too late.


Too many long nights alone,
not even a date.
So I got a little too lonely,
& you were a little too late.


You never did write, you never did call.
When I had the blues, you were havin' a ball.
You thought that I'd be here to run to,
Now I'm gonna do to you what I've been done to.


Too bad about you, my friend,
It could've been great.
But I was a little too lonely,
& now you're a little too late.


Too bad about you, my friend,
It could've been great.
But I got a little too lonely,
& you were a little too late!


Jay Livingston, Raymond Evans
1944