tearing my fear apart....

[thoreau]

There is something simple about the song "The Way You Look Tonight". It's always been a favorite.

With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fear apart...
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
It touches my foolish heart.
Lovely ... Never, ever change.
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it ?
'Cause I love you ... Just the way you look tonight.

This has always struck me as one of the most romantic songs...... because men AND women can sing this with equal impact. I downloaded the new Chris Botti album Italia this morning on Itunes - and while a tad uneven one of the standouts is an instrumental of this. (and a stunning 'duet' with Andreas Bocelli in the title track, and a very intense trumpet solo version of Gabriel's Oboe from THE MISSION) and I sat here with Miss kate curled up - singing along while Botti played his trumpet - - making up words where I didn't remember them 'quite' correctly and laughing my way through it.

I love the lyrics catch the moment so perfectly - each word your tenderness grows. I always imagine a giant old-style wooden dance floor with a big band. and 100 or so gay men and women - dancing slowly arm in arm - while the flicker of the disco ball floods the room with soft light. When I dance with him - I lead (because I'm a control freak). My hand rests careful on the back of his suit jacket right at the small of his back. He bought the suit just for this night's occasion - a grand ball. He's wearing a bright red tie and a black vest. and I'm wearing the complimentary christmas green tie. - tearing my fear apart - I can smell the slightest cologne from him as the music encourages me to nuzzle into his neck for a moment - my beard rubbing against his neck makes him giggle, because he's ticklish. - And that laugh that wrinkles your nose - Seeing his eyes light up like that - at the sillyness of admitting that he is still ticklish like he was when he was a child - It touches my foolish heart. - We continue dancing and I see a pair of women dancing like we are over his shoulder - and the lead in that couple smiles at me and winks - sharing that magic moment with me. The music ends and he and I embrace. - Lovely ... Never, ever change. We pull away and give each other that - "god that was romantic and hot and wonderful" LOOK. We walk hand-in-hand back to our table and our friends. He says something like "isn't he adorable?" looking at me - the other friends of ours at the table all fake Karen Carpenter vomiting sessions. He and I just laugh. - Keep that breathless charm. -

Won't you please arrange it ?'Cause I love you ... Just the way you look tonight.

Comments

[major7.livejournal.com]

Heck, if I wasn't married I'd be on the next plane to SFO with my red tie on. That was all pretty sexy.

:)

[low-fat-muffin.livejournal.com]

the last thing I need is The Mister catching the next flight with his freshly sharpened ginzu knives. (cackle)

thanks for the thought sweetheart.....

[moved.livejournal.com]

This is one of my favorites.

I've been known to sing it. Heh.

[tinman11201.livejournal.com]

lovely... never ever change

listening to that glorious barbershop arrangement (and singing along) and reading your words have caused happy tears to roll down my face.

thank you dear friend for sharing those beautiful words and music.

(P.S. I was in several barbershop quartets through the years, I've always adored singing harmony with other men)

[dakoopst.livejournal.com]

You know what I think of when I think of this song?

A man I dated in an LTR a few years back, who lived in Dallas, was a freelance music director, travelling around the country as an emergency fill-in for small-town theatres when they lost their MD last-minute.

The second time I met him (in Sanibel, Florida) he was MDing a show he had helped arrange and rewrite -- a Jerome Kern retrospective. This number was one of the show-stoppers, and I remember humming it to him one of the nights after the show as we lay in bed, wrapped in each other's arms.

It still gives me chills and makes me tear up a little -- it's so pretty.

[scream4noreason.livejournal.com]

Look for a version by Wendy Matthews,its gorgeous.

Didnt Carrie Fisher sing it in "Hannah and her Sisters"??