From the musical “Paint Your Wagon”, 1951.
Words by Alan Jay Lerner.
Music by Frederick Loewe.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
I talk to the trees
But they don’t listen to me
I talk to the stars
But they never hear me
The breeze hasn’t time
To stop and hear what I say
I talk to them all in vain
But suddenly my words reach someone else’s ear
Touch someone else’s heartstrings, too
I tell you my dreams
And while you’re listening to me
I suddenly see them come true
Interlude:
I can see us on an April night
At a table underneath the stars
Having supper in the candlelight
To the strumming of guitars
I will tell you how I passed the day
Thinking only how the night would be
And I’ll try to find the words to say
All the things you mean to me