Make Believe - Steve Lawrence

Only make believe I love you,

Only make believe that you love me.

Others find peace of mind in pretending —

Couldn’t you?

Couldn’t I?

Couldn’t we?

Make believe our lips are blending

In a phantom kiss, or two, or three.

Might as well make believe I love you,

For to tell the truth, I do.

Your pardon I pray,

'Twas too much to say

The words that betray my heart.

We only pretend,

You do not offend

In playing a lover’s part.

The game of just supposing

Is the sweetest game I know.

Our dreams are more romantic

Than the world we see

And if the things we dream about

Don’t happen to be so,

That’s just an unimportant technicality.

Though the cold and brutal fact is

You and I have never met,

We need not mind convention’s P’s and Q’s.

If we put our thoughts in practice

We can banish all regret

Imagining most anything we choose.

We could make believe I love you,

We could make believe that you love me.

Others find peace of mind in pretending,

Couldn’t you,

Couldn’t I?

Couldn’t we?

Make believe our lips are blending

In a phantom kiss — or two — or three.

Might as well make believe I love you,

For to tell the truth, I do…

Ravenal — the Judge’d like to see you.

What for?

Nothin' serious — but I reckon you’d better come along

And have a talk with him.

You will excuse me, ma’am?

I hope I’ll see you again —

In a little while.

Oh, Joe!

Did you see that young man I was talkin' to?

Mornin', Miss Nola… Yep — I seed him — seed a lot

Like him on de river —

Oh, Joe, he was such a gentleman!

Have you seen Miss Julie?

I got to tell her — I got to ask her what she thinks —

Better ask de ol' river what he thinks — he knows

All 'bout dem boys… he knows all 'bout everythin'…