CHET ON POETRY (Chet Baker)

Chet Baker - In a sentimental mood (D. Ellington)

( Introductory poem by G. Manzi)

But now it has happened, No use in talking The silence between me and you Has never had meaning. It was, love it, that was all That was asked. But now it has happened, No words for the foretime, The desperation has made me the same, Has made me another. Who looks at the shape of the fish Grow giant on the side of his bowl, Who walks on the terrace Observing foliage from above, Who hears the snapping of plastic That wraps like cellophane Bare branches of climbers? You don't know, and I Who descend the stairs neither, I am the same, I am another.

Chet Baker (1929- 1988)

Chet Baker - She Was Too Good To Me (1974)

She was too good to me how can I get along now. So close she stood to me everything seems so wrong now. She would have brought me the sun making me smile that was her fun. When I was mean to her she never said go away now. I was a king to her who's gonna make me gay now? It's only natural I'm so blue. She was too good to be true.