It must be fun to be you And play with love as you do To treat each new romance As merely one more dance Or just another book to glance through It mu… - Cole Porter

"The Shortest Night of the Year"

It rained the day before we met
Then came 3 days that I forget
And then my love we met again
And I remember things from then
I measure time by what we do
And so my calendar is you
The shortest day of the year
Has the longest night of the year
And the longest night is the shortest night with you.
The Smallest Smile on your face
Is the greatest kind of embrace
And a single kiss is a thousand dreams come true
The softest sigh, that is my strongest tie
There’s you, there’s I, what can time do?
The shortest day of the year
Has the longest night of the year
And the longest night is the shortest night with you.
your softest sigh, that is my strongest tie
There’s you, there’s I, what can time do?
The shortest day of the year
Has the longest night of the year
And the longest night is the shortest night with you.

I start with the title first. From this title I work out the psychology of the tune. Next I write the lyric backward, and in this way build it up to a climax. In the lyric I work first for the climax, and if I can’t find a good climactic line I throw out the tune . . . I consult rhyme dictionaries. I swear by them. For long, easy rhymes I use Andrew Loring’s Lexicon. Other books I have in constant use are Roget’s ‘Thesaurus,’ and atlas, Fowler’s ‘Modern English Usage’ and a dictionary.

If you want a future, darling, Why don't you get a past?