Lyrics Isn't It A Pity - Mel Torme, Cleo Laine

Isn't It A Pity

Why did I wander
Here and there and yonder
Wasting precious time
For no reason or rhyme?
Isn’t it a pity!
Isn’t it a crime!
My journey’s ended
Everything is splendid
Meeting you today
Has given me a wonderful idea
Here I stay
It’s a funny thing
I look at you
I get a thrill I never knew
Isn’t it a pity we never met before!
Here we are at last
It’s like a dream
The two of us, a perfect team
Isn’t it a pity we never met before!
Imagine all the lonely years we’ve wasted
You with the neighbours
I at silly labours
What joys untasted
You readin' Heine
You somewhere in China
Happiest of gals guys I’m sure to be
If you will always say to me
Isn’t a pity we never ever met before!
Imagine all the lonely years we’ve wasted
Fishing for salmon
Losing at backgammon
What joys untasted
My nights were sour
Spent with Schopenhauer
Let’s forget the past, let’s both agree
That I’m for you and you’re for me
And it’s an awful pity we never, never, never, ever met before!
Pity!