Private Lives: Love Scene, Act 2 --Gertrude Lawrence

Let's Say Goodbye - Noel Coward and Orchestra Gertrude Lawrence Let our affair be a gay thing And when these hours have flown Then without forgetting happiness That has past There'll be no regretting fun That didn't quite last Let's look on love as a play thing All these sweet moments we've known Mustn't be degraded When the thrill of them has faded Let's say goodbye and leave it alone Now we've embarked on this foolish game Don't let's destroy it with tears Once we begin to let sentiment in Happiness disappears Reason may sleep for a moment in spring But please let us keep it a casual thing Something that's sweet To remember through the years Listen my dear Were both of going to suffer a good deal During these next few months And the color will go out of Everything for a bit But when we do meet again Somewhere far away in the future It'll be gay and sweet And terribly exciting Because however many others We may have loved in the meantime And however old and tired we may be We shall have between us a perfect memory Let our affair be a gay thing And when these hours have flown Then without forgetting happiness That has past There'll be no regretting fun That didn't quite last Let's look on love as a play thing All these sweet moments we've known Mustn't be degraded When the thrill of them has faded Let's say goodbye and leave it alone