Mirkayan, don't show your love, simply relish
the veiled passion that lures the lover.

It's enough if your marvelous eyes make me
drink a full-cupped draught from life.

Hide your love from morning dew,
from brilliant sun and searing wind

Be stingy! Till that day arrives
when the eyes stay shut and play has ceased

Leave me infatuated with your love
not knowing if you're mine, or illusion's vapor

When night overwhelms, I say, " A dream! "
and fear the fading of the awesome dark

Mine eye bewrays
My heart's desires:
Ill luck delays
That love requires.
Love cannot live
Where hope decays:
Love cannot give,
That time delays.
Love cannot live
Where favour dies:
Hope cannot give
That hap denies.

VERSE

Loving you was all that really mattered,
Don't know why you ever went away;
Gone is ev'ry joy and inspiration,
What's the use in trying to be gay?
Even though my ev'ry dream is shattered,
I keep hoping you'll come back some day.

REFRAIN

Where are you?
Where have you gone without me?
I thought you cared about me.
Where are you?
Where's my heart?
Where is the dream we started?
I can't believe we're parted.
Where are you?
When we said good-bye, love,
What had we to gain?
When I gave you my love,
Was it all in vain?

Your eyes don't shine like they used to shine,
And the thrill is gone when your lips meet mine.
I'm afraid the masquerade is over,
And so is love, and so is love.
Your words don't mean what they used to mean.
They were once inspired, now they're just routine.
I'm afraid the masquerade is over,
And so is love, and so is love.
I guess I'll have to play Pagliacci
And get myself a clown's disguise,
And learn to laugh like Pagliacci
With tears in my eyes.
You look the same, you're a lot the same,

(Y OU Kiss W HILE Y OU'RE D ANCING )

Beautiful music!
Dangerous rhythm!
It's something daring,
" The Continental. "
A way of dancing that's really ultra new;
It's very subtle,
" The Continental, "
Because it does what you want it to do.
It has a passion,
" The Continental, "
An invitation to moonlight and romance;
It's quite the fashion,
" The Continental, "
Because you tell of your love while you dance.
Your lips
Whisper, so tenderly,
Her eyes
Answer your song.

Some day when I'm awf'ly low,
When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you,
And the way you look tonight.
Oh, but you're lovely
With your smile so warm,
And your cheek so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you,
Just the way you look tonight.
With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fear apart.
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose
Touches my foolish heart.
Lovely, never, never change,
Keep that breathless charm,
Won't you please arrange it,
'Cause I love you,

VERSE

Give it up!
Give it up!
Too much man,
Too much grief,
No more man,
No more grief,
To be brief,
I got a firm belief.

REFRAIN 1

There must be somethin' better than love,
There must be somethin' better in view,
But if there's somethin' better than love,
Who wants it? Do you?
There jes' must be some practical plan
That don't require de service of man.
Suppose they find that practical plan —
Who wants it? Neither do I!

VERSE

You kissed me once by mistake,
Thought I was somebody else.
I felt that kiss and I envied that somebody else.
I wanted you for myself.
I guess I was shameless and bold.
But I made a plan in my heart,
I've never breathed,
I've never told.

REFRAIN

I must try to make the man love me,
Make the man love me now.
By and by, I'll make the man happy,
I know how.
He must see how badly I want him,
Want him just as he is.
May I say that should the man ask me,

(with Jimmy McHugh)

VERSE 1

Clothes must play a part
To light an eye, to win a heart;
They say a gown can almost speak,
If it is chic.
Should you select the right effect, you cannot miss.
You may be sure,
He will tell you this:

REFRAIN

Lovely to look at,
Delightful to know,
And heaven to kiss.
A combination like this
Is quite my most impossible scheme come true,
Imagine finding a dream like you!
You're lovely to look at,
It's thrilling to hold you terribly tight.

VERSE

Merry month of May,
Sunny skies of blue,
Clouds have rolled away
And the sun peeps through,
May express happiness.
Joy you may define
In a thousand ways,
But a case like mine
Needs a " special phrase "
To reveal
How I feel.

REFRAIN

I've got the world on a string,
Sittin' on a rainbow;
Got the string around my finger.
What a world,
What a life,