About "Let me love you" by Bill Evans
Evans plays the plea as a sigh, not a shoutβsingle notes suspended like dust motes in late-afternoon sun. The tenderness is almost unbearable, each phrase a hand reaching out then pulling back, love and loneliness sharing the same fragile breath.
π΅ The Nearness Of You + You've Got A Date ...
by Bill Evans
Bye bye blackbird
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When the sun comes out
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I remember you
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Softly, as in a morning sunrise
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Dearly beloved
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Summertime
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All of you
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I see your face before me
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The nearness of you
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This time the dream's on me
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Just imagine
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The blues (from black, brown & beige)
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Am I blue?
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Blue gardenia
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You've got a date with the blues
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The thrill is gone
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When the world was young
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Blues in my heart
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Vous m'eblouissez (you go to my head)
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Lorsque tu m'embrasses (just squeeze me)
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The meaning of the blues
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Signing off
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