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 the 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’ll have to say

« I’m a fool to want you
Pity me, I need you
I know it’s wrong, it must be wrong
But right or wrong I can’t get along
Without you »

I can’t get along
Without you

Interprété par Billie Holiday

Almost Blue / Chet Baker

Almost blue
Almost doing things we used to do
There’s a girl here and she’s almost you
Almost
All the things that your eyes once promised
I see in hers too
Now your eyes are red from crying

Almost blue
Flirting with this disaster became me
It named me as the fool who only aimed to be

Almost blue
It’s almost touching it will almost do
There’s a part of me that’s always true… always

Not all good things come to an end now, it is only a chosen few
I have seen such an unhappy couple

Almost me

Almost you

Almost blue

Chet Baker
Almost Blue

Photo : Phyllis Brooks in The Shanghai Gesture / Josef von Sternberg / 1941