Let's Say Goodbye - Noël Coward

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