"Falling in Love with Love" — Rodgers and Hart's waltz of self-deception.
Writer(s): rodgers/hart
I weave with brightly colored strings
To keep my mind off other things
So, ladies, let your fingers dance
And keep your hands out of romance
Lovely witches
Let the stitches
Keep your fingers under control
Cut the thread, but leave
The whole heart whole
Merrry maids can sew and sleep
Wives can only sew and weep
Falling in love with love
Is falling for make-believe
Falling in love with love
Is playing the fool
Caring too much is juvenile fancy
Learning to trust is just
For children in school
I fell in love with love one night
When the mood was full
I was unwise with eyes
Unable to see
I fell in love with love
With love everlasting
But love fell out with me
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- From The Boys from Syracuse (1938). The distinction between falling in love with love and falling in love with someone real — Hart diagnosing the romantic's fundamental error with characteristic clear-eyed precision.