How sad Venice can be
When you return alone
To find a memory
In every paving stone.
I walk among the birds
That fill San Marco's Square
With echoes of her words
Around me in the air.
How sad Venice can be
When the mandolins play
A song she sung for me
One unforgotten day.
Like images of sleep
The gondoliers go by
But when I try to weep
I find my tears are dry.
Verse 2
How sad Venice can be
When mist is in your eyes
And you can hardly see
As pigeons fill the skies.
I find the little street
And then the old café
Where we would always meet
To dream away the day.
How sad Venice can be
Be-neath the silent moon
That rises from the sea
And silvers the la-goon.
I hear the vespers chime
And cross the Bridge of Sighs
I know that it is time
To bid my last good-byes.
SEGUE
There's nothing more to say
I pass beneath the light
And then I turn away
From Venice in the night.
OUTRO
How sad Venice can be
It's too lonely to bare
When you have lost the love
That you discovered there.