Summer's waning, I was drinking
To your health while mine was failing
The silver smoke of Marlborough's rose
In ringlets through the air
when I held you in my arms
nothing but the cigarette stain
And just like those songs
you were always on my mind
But I could not have loved you
And God only knows I tried
But I would never change this pain
Each time I hear your name
With it aches like kissing broken glass
Like a rose with just the thorns
Just when I thought it last,
