ILLUSION
(Ivers / Moss / Parker)

as recorded by Nat "King" Cole
with orchestra conducted by Ralph Carmichael
December 22nd 1960 Hollywood


Are you an illusion that I've kissed?
Am I only dreaming you exist?
Am I just pretending dreams come true,
And is heaven wise,
Opening my eyes
To someone like you?

Are you an illusion I embrace?
Can you be the rainbow that I chase?
Won't you, in this yearning that I feel,
Tell me that it's so?
What I want to know,
Tell me that you're real!

Are you an illusion I embrace?
Can you be the rainbow that I chase?
Won't you, in this yearning that I feel,
Tell me that it's so?
What I want to know,
Tell me that you're real!



(Transcribed by Peter Akers - October 2014)