All Who Love Are Blind(Smoke gets In your Eyes)

public domain | for the musical "Roberta" in 1933 | Written by Jerome Kern (music) and Otto Harbach (lyrics)

[f.Christian]

When Smoke Gets In You Eyes

Written by Jerome Kern (music) and Otto Harbach (lyrics)
for the musical "Roberta" in 1933
Recording by The Platters was a # 1 hit in 1959 Remade in 1973 by Blue Haze, it hit # 27

They, asked me how I knew,
My true love was true,
I of course replied, something here inside,
Can not be denied.

They, said some day you'll find,
All who love are blind,
When you heart's on fire, you must realize,
Smoke gets in your eyes.

So I chaffed them, and I gaily laughed,
To think they would doubt our love,
And yet today, my love has gone away,
I am without my love.

Now laughing friends deride,
Tears I cannot hide,
So I smile and say, when a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes,

Smoke gets in your eyes.

[f.Christian]

Just happened to see this song sung in a classic movie surfing the channels. Never really listened to the words before. Love is real when it flares up and goes out too...cough-cough!

[f.Christian]

This song actually seems to be half written...any new verses?

[f.Christian]

Any Jimmy Hendrix fans...doors--morrison?

How about Lionel Ritchie!

[f.Christian]

IGNITION

night lights
cross my window
like a game
fall upon the music
and settle on our desire

morning comes
an arrow
with its flame
that burns our song
into a lovely fire.

66 posted on 4/17/02 5:34 PM Hawaii-Aleutian by fish hawk

It's a lot easier...
to do html---
with cut/paste
when smoke gets in your eyes!

Must be doing
something wrong
can not see/love/html
when smoke gets in your eyes!

[fish hawk]

Hey Amigo, good to hear from you. Come over the the Poetry thread and look around. I've been over there showing off and giving some a bad time. Really great and talented people there. I think you would enjoy it.

If you really want to get smoke in your eyes, try shooting with Black Powder. Aloha