SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR
From the film "You'll Never Get Rich" (1941)
(Cole Porter)

Fred Astaire (Film Soundtrack) - 1941
Ella Fitzgerald - 1972
Jane Scheckter - 1993
Mary Cleere Haran - 1994

Also recorded by:
Oscar Peterson; André Previn; Bobby Short.


I so often dream
We might make a team
But so wild a scheme
I must banish
For each time I start
To open my heart
You vanish

We might find some isle
Where lotuses smile
And our time beguile
Going native
But how can we go
Unless you are co-
Operative

My dear, I've a feeling you are
So near and yet so far
You appear like a radiant star
First so near, then again so far

I just start getting you keen
On clinches galore with me
When fate steps in on the scene
And mops up the floor with me
No wonder I'm a bit under par
For you're so near and yet so far

My condition is only so-so
'Cause whenever I feel you're close, oh
You turn out to be, oh, so
Far