Blue Gardenia

A flower reminds me

Of the places we used to walk to

Now the evening finds me

With only a flower to talk to

Blue gardenia, now I'm alone with you

And I am oh-so blue

She has tossed us aside

And like you, gardenia

Once I was near her heart

After the teardrops start

Where are the teardrops to hide?

I lived for an hour, what more can I tell?

Love bloomed like a flower

Then the petals fell

Blue gardenia

Thrown to a passing breeze

But pressed in my book of memories