So Romantic - Stacey Kent, Jim Tomlinson, John Parricelli

You always had a taste for those movies

Like Casablanca and Song o' My Heart

Where a complicated world

Or the call of adventure

Forces true lovers to part

When the hero turns his back so stoically

On all the happiness they might have had

You always considered it

So romantic

But I just considered it sad

It was so like you to choose such a moment

The sun setting over the square

A pavement cafe, the local children at play

The sound of an accordion somewhere

You suddenly said Fate was pulling us apart

Then you shrugged, like there was nothing more to add

I suppose you considered that

So romantic

Well, I just considered it sad

Perhaps you’re living in America now

Perhaps you’re in Timbuktu

A small part of me, even after this time

Has never stopped waiting for you

To live in this state of hoping

When hoping seems so utterly mad

I can’t help but consider that so romantic

Though I know I should consider it sad