"But Beautiful" — Van Heusen and Burke's paradoxical love.
Love is funny or its sad
Or its quiet or its mad
Its a good thing or its bad
But beautiful
Beautiful to take a chance and if you fall, you fall
And Im thinking I wouldnt mind at all
Love is tearful or its gay
Its a problem or its play
Its a heartache either way
But beautiful
And Im thinking if you were mine, Id never let you go
And that would be but beautiful, I know.
Love is tearful or its gay
Its a problem or its play
Its a heartache either way
But its beautiful
And Im thinking if you were mine, Id never let you go
And that would be but beautiful, I know
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- Written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke for the 1947 film Road to Rio (Hope and Crosby). The catalogue of love's contradictions — funny or sad, mad or glad, bright or blue — concluding: "but beautiful? Beautiful to me."