The Way You Look Tonight
No way, now I’m awfully low
now the world is cold
I could feel a glow just thinking of you
and the way you looked that night.
Yes you were lovely, with your smile so warm
and your cheek so soft
there was nothing for me but to love you
and the way you looked that night.
Though it’s true my tenderness grows
as fear tears me apart
while that tube that wrinkles your nose
touches my foolish heart –
aching at this brutal change,
at the practised charm
of nurses who arrange
(‘cause they’re paid to) just the way you look tonight.
Mm, mm, mm, mm
just the way you look tonight.
Tom Vaughan
With apologies to Dorothy
Fields and Jerome Kern, whose wonderful original song can be heard
here.
If you have any
thoughts about this poem, Tom Vaughan
would be pleased to hear them
