being in love used to be my fav rite dream oh yes i ve been in love more than anybody else has i guess my first love heroic ly ran the streetcar i tingled at ev ry clang clang next i fell for the principal but oh that teacher who sang in the gloamin knee deep in love what a lovely dream and yet somehow me deep in love s only half of what i m longing for now i still love my being in love with someone but tell me why couldn t there be somebody being in love with me all i want is a plain man all i want is a modest man a quiet man a gentle man a straightforward and honest man to sit with me in a cottage somewhere in the state of iowa and i would like him to be more interested in me than he s in himself and more interested in us than in me and if occasionally he d ponder what makes shakespeare and beethoven great him i could love til i die him i could love til i die being in love what a lovely dream and yet somehow being in love s only half of what i m longing for now and so then tonight i ll be in there dreaming and hoping that someday there ll be just once somebody being in love with me 