Cecily Smith

[00:07.06] The war was over, I was living with my folks

[00:10.78] I yelled upstairs "Hey mom, I'm off to grab some smokes"

[00:15.03] And my father called, "Why you need to smoke so late?"

[00:19.28] Well I'd lied, I had a date

[00:22.73] Free from my folks' enslavement

[00:26.72] Skippin' along the pavement

[00:30.70] To see a brunette, who I'd never met

[00:34.15] But I never would forget, how she looked in that dress

[00:40.53] How she stuck out her hand and said

[00:43.90] "My name is Cecily Smith and I hope you like music

[00:51.60] 'Cause I've got two tickets for La Traviata"

[00:56.65] That's when I said, "I hate opera"

[01:01.96] She laughed and said, "Well lucky for you

[01:05.15] That you're with Cecily Smith

[01:08.07] Who cares what you are listening to

[01:11.52] It's who you're listening with"

[01:19.58] So we take our seats, her hands are folded in her lap

[01:23.04] If not a kiss, then I at least will get a nap

[01:26.75] So I close my eyes as the orchestra begins

[01:30.47] Then I hear violins

[01:35.25] And the hair on my neck was rising

[01:38.71] A feeling new and surprising

[01:42.16] But it wasn't the sound that made my heart pound

[01:45.88] No, it was because I found her hand is in mine

[01:50.40] And that's where it will stay until they play the final chord

[01:58.96] She says, "Were you bored?"

[02:02.41] And I say, "I guess it wasn't quite so bad

[02:07.46] It was the best time that I ever had"

[02:12.77] She laughed and said, "Well lucky for you

[02:16.49] I got seats to Beethoven's Fifth

[02:19.94] Who cares what you are listening to

[02:24.80] It's who you're listening with"

[02:34.90] A perfect wife

[02:42.07] A perfect life

[02:51.37] The time exploded like a bullet from a gun

[02:54.82] A week, a year, and then a marriage, and a son

[02:58.54] And a rental where I still can hear her laugh

[03:03.85] When I play the phonograph

[03:07.57] So I let the music guide me

[03:11.02] And Cecily sits beside me

[03:14.48] A girl of nineteen, with a nervous marine

[03:17.93] Feel her head begin to lean, as the melody soars

[03:24.04] And though it was real, it doesn't feel like it could be

[03:31.48] That night when you said to me

[03:34.62] That I've got two tickets for La Traviata

[03:54.98] It's sad but true, how much I miss you

[04:00.03] I miss you Cecily Smith

[04:03.74] Life is not the things that we do

[04:09.06] It's who we're doing them with