It's de-lightful, it's de-licious...

It's De-Lovely

So you know how sometimes you just need to watch a sad movie? I do this periodically to get the emotions out of my system so I can go on as my normal, ice-queen-ish self, and avoid bursting into tears at particularly touching movies or around people.

My go to movie is De-Lovely, the charmingly sad story of Cole and Linda Porter, complete with awesome music.

One of my favorite tear jerker scenes is when everyone is singing to Blow Gabriel Blow and Cole is just about to die. There is so much love there, as every major player in his life sings to him and says goodbye.

And then, as the lights slowly fade, he and Linda sing In the Still of the Night:

In the still of the night
As I gaze from my window
At the moon in it's flight
My thoughts all stray to you

In the still of the night
All the world is in slumber
All the times without number
Darling when I say to you

Do you love me, as I love you?
Are you my life to be, my dream come true?
Or will this dream of mine fade out of sight?

Like the moon growing dim
On the rim of the hill
In the chill, still of the night

And, to send you off from this slightly melancholy missive, the one lyric that will always stay in my head and I will sing forever:

There's no love song finer
But how strange the change
From major to minor
Every time we say goodbye