Too Marvelous For WordsFrank Sinatra

"Too Marvelous for Words" — Mercer's failure of language.

You're just too marvelous, too marvelous for words
Like glorious, glamorous and that old standby amorous.
It's all too wonderful, I'll never find the words
That say enough, tell enough, I mean they just aren't swell enough.
You're much too much, and just too very, very
To ever be in Webster's Dictionary.
And so I'm borrowing a love song from the birds
To tell you that you're marvelous - too marvelous for words.
(Musical interlude)
You're much - you're too much - and just too very, very
To ever be, to ever be in Webster's Dictionary.
And so I'm borrowing a love song from the birds
To tell you that you're marvelous;
Tell you that you're marvelous;
Tell you that you're marvelous - too marvelous for words

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  • Written by Richard Whiting and Johnny Mercer for the 1937 film Ready, Willing and Able. The conceit — exhausting the dictionary, running out of words to describe someone — is the most self-aware lyric about the limits of language in the Songbook.