"Down With Love" lyrics

"Down With Love"

Down with love
With flowers and rice and shoes
Down with love
The root of all midnight blues
Down with things
That give you that well-known pain
Take that moon
Wrap it in cellophane

Down with love let's liquidate
All its friends
Like moon, June, roses
And rainbows' ends
Down with songs
That mourn about night and day
Down with love
Take it away, away

Take it away, take it away
Give it back to the birds
To bees and the Viennese

Down with eyes romantic and stupid
Down with sighs, down with cupid
Brother let's stuff that dove
Down with love

Down with love
Liquidate all its friends
Like moon, June, roses

And rainbows' ends
Down with song
That mourns about night and day
You are the one...
And I don't stand a chance with a ghost like you
Ah, the promised kiss of spring is here...
What does my heart go dancing overhead...
On the ceiling near my bed...
We go now...
Because I talk to the trees
But they don't listen to me
I tell them: you say either - I say either
You say neither, I say neither - I say neither
Either, either
Neither, neither
Let's call the whole thing off!

Take it away, take it away
Give it back to the birds
And the bees and the Viennese

Down with eyes romantic and stupid
Down with sighs, down with cupid
Brother let's stuff that dove...

Down, down, down
I go on 'round and 'round
I go in a spin
Hey, in the spin, I'm in!
What is this thing...
What is this thing called love?


Writer(s): Harold Arlen, E. Y. Harburg
You May Also Like
Cilla Black - "Alfie" What's it all about, Alfie? Is it just for the moment we live? What's it all about when you sort it out, Alfie? Are we meant to take more than we give Or are we meant to be kind? And if only fools...
Alex Newell & Original Broadway Cast Of Shucked - "Independently Owned" I'm independently owned and operated The only thing around here that's incorporated I do it all and that's fine by me I'm a one woman whiskey dynasty I'm independently owned and liberated And I...
Cliff Richard - "All I Ask Of You" No more talk of darkness. Forget these wide-eyed fears. I'm here, nothing can harm you. My words will warm and calm you. Let me be your freedom. Let daylight dry your tears. I'm here, with you,...
Anne Murray - "You Needed Me" I cried a tear, you wiped it dry I was confused, you cleared my mind I sold my soul, you bought it back for me And held me up and gave me dignity Somehow you needed me You gave me strength to stand...
Johnny Mercer with The Paul Smith Trio & The Notables - "Spring Spring Spring" Oh, the barnyard is busy In a regular tizzy And the obvious reason is Because of the season Ma Nature's lyrical With her yearly miracle Spring, Spring, Spring All the hen-folk are hatchin' While...