Where Are You?

Music by by Jimmy McHugh
Lyric by Kurt Elling, based on Dexter Gordon's phrasing of the original melody from his 1962 recording, "Go".

Where is your heart, my love? I can’t believe you’d forget.
I haven’t finished with love yet, and I’m wondering where – where can you be?

I still see your smile in my memories and photographs
Pictures of hand holding laughter
I guess there’s more that you're after – but you're teaching my songs to cry

Making love with you was easy – it was a thrill
And I guess that’s how it goes – hearts break every day
I just thought you’d go just a bit more gently.
And I hoped you’d pick up the telephone if I called.

My angel, where can you be? You have flown out –
Out of time, out of love, out of my arms – leaving me with a heart full of empty

So where – baby where – are you?

And now – starting now and my whole life through must I go on just pretending
Where is my happy ending? All I wanted to play from long ago was your true love Romeo

I need you baby, but darling where, baby, where are you?