These foolish things...

A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces

An airline ticket to romantic places

And still my heart has wings

These foolish things remind me of you

A tinkling piano in the next apartment

Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant

(...)

These foolish things remind me of you.

[Billie Holiday. These foolish things (Remind Me Of You),

 Mercury Records 1952, lyrics from Eric Maschwitz (1936)]

 

[publicada originalmente em fevereiro de 2017]