LOST MIND
Percy Mayfield 1953
as rec by Diana Krall (vocal & piano) w Russell Malone (guitar) & Christian McBride (bass) 1997
If you could be so kind
To help me find my mind,
I'd like to thank you in advance;
Know this before you start,
My soul's been torn apart,
I lost my mind in a wild romance.
My future is my past,
Its memory will last,
I'll live to love the days gone by.
Each day that comes and goes is like the one before,
My mind is lost till the day I die.
Words would fail me if I tried to describe him,
Though I know he's not what he should have been!
He was a devil with the face of an angel,
He was cruel and sweet, sweet and cruel as home made sin!
If you could be so kind
To help me find my mind,
I'd like to thank you in advance;
Know this before you start,
My soul's been torn apart,
I lost my mind in a wild romance.
Words would fail me if I tried to describe him,
Though I know he's not what he should have been!
He was a devil with the face of an angel,
He was cruel and sweet, sweet and cruel as home made sin!
If you could be so kind
To help me find my mind,
I'd like to thank you in advance;
Know this before you start,
My soul's been torn apart,
I lost my mind in a wild romance,
I lost my mind in a wild romance,
Romance!
(Transcribed by Peter Akers - June 2012)