From the musical “Angel Face”, 1919
Words by Robert B. Smith
Music by Victor Herbert
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- When you are lonely, wanting one only
Somebody’s lonely, too
While you’re longingly waiting for someone
Someone’s longingly waiting for you
When you meet, you’ll know it
One sigh will show it
Lovers are wondrous wise
You will both read the same happy story
By the lovelight in each other’s eyes
Refrain
If I had someone like you, my dear
To share today, tomorrow
I’d see the folly of melancholy
And I’d bid farewell to sorrow
The sky would seem a more radiant blue
And love the hours beguile
My life would be brighter with someone like you
To brighten it with a smile
Someone like you
- Time passes sadly, time lingers badly
Too long the days all seem
When you’re waiting for one that you long for
And who only exists in a dream
While others are mating, you are still waiting
Wondering if dreams come true
Till some day you meet somebody, somewhere
Who has something to whisper to you