NO ONE EVER TELLS YOU
Carroll Coates / Hub Atwood


as rec by Frank Sinatra w Nelson Riddle & his Orch  April 9th 1956 Los Angeles




No one ever tells you what it's like to love and lose,
How it feels to waken and have breakfast with the blues,
How to go on livin', how to face another day,
No one ever tells you the way!


No one ever tells you how it feels to walk alone,
Listenin' for those footsteps through the echo of your own.
Suddenly it hits you, all those dreams weren't worth a dime,
'Cause no one ever tells you in time!


Long before the icy winds of Winter,
Autumn tells the swallows, "Time to fly!".
Why did she pretend,
Till the bitter end,
Till it broke my heart to say goodbye?


No one ever tells you that it's just another fling,
No one ever warns you when your heart begins to sing.
Someone tells you later all is fair in love and war,
But no one ever tells you before!




No one ever tells you that it's just another fling,
No one ever warns you when your heart begins to sing.
Someone tells you later all is fair in love and war,
But no one ever tells you before,
It never comes easy,
No one ever tells you before!






(Transcribed by Peter Akers - April 2012)