Lotte Lenya - Foolish heart

LOVE SHOULDN'T BE SERIOUS

En el trigésimo séptimo aniversario del óbito de la cantante y actriz austriaca Lotte Lenya evocamos su memoria con esta versión de Foolish heart, delicioso vals perteneciente al musical "One touch of Venus" con libreto de S. J. Perelman y Ogden Nash y canciones con letra de éste último y música de Kurt Weill. La obra se estrenó en Broadway en 1943 con dirección de Elia Kazan, siendo Mary Martin, Kenny Baker y John Boles sus protagonistas y llegando a mantenerse en cartel durante 567 representaciones. La canción apareció en el álbum de Lenya grabado en 1957 September song and other American theatre songs of Kurt Weill (1958).

Foolish heart  (lyrics)

Can you tell me how these things happen? 

Have I trusted in love too much?

When did the magic vanish?

Have I somehow lost my touch?

How gay the world could be

Could I love you?

Could he love me?

Love shouldn't be serious, shouldn't

You meet, you kiss, you start

I fancied that I understood it

I forgot my foolish heart

Love can't be illogical, can't it

You kiss, perhaps you smile, you part

It happens the way that you plan it

If you hush your foolish heart

Poor foolish heart

Crying for one who ignores you

Poor foolish heart

Flying from one who adores you

Ah, love used to touch me so lightly

Why will my heart betray me so?

I would dance with a new love nightly

But my foolish heart says no

Poor foolish heart

Crying for one who ignores you

Poor foolish heart

Flying from one who adores you

Ah, love used to touch me so lightly

Why will my heart betray me so?

I would dance with a new lover nightly

But my foolish heart says no