You want to say something to me...
but maybe it would be much better
If you don't tell me tonight.
Please don't tell me tonight
while my heart is so tender.
Leave my happiness unspoiled
for just a little while longer.
Save what you have to say to me...
for another even better time.
Tonight my hard core is useless,
softened in my acquiescence.
Tonight I am as fragile as fine glass.
Tonight I can break too easily.
Whatever it is, it can wait.
Don't tell me anything tonight...
not while I am defenseless,
not while I am so easy to defeat.
Make a fool of me if you have to...
Ignorance can really be such bliss.
Let me revel in my fantasy a little while...
Then you can pull the rug out.
Tonight there is a Tooth Fairy,
Easter Bunny and Santa Claus...
And tonight there is a you and me.
Let's be silent as the summer moon
hunched over a balcony,
in a Charles Aznavour's song.
Tonight, my friend, we are lovers...
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