Outside this house

Ryan P Townsend sings Outside This House from Samuel Barber's Vanessa.

Piano - Ray Blackwell

Lyrics;
Outside this house the world has changed, life is swifter than before. There is no time for idle gestures. I cannot offer you eternal love, for we have learned today, such words are lies. But the brief pleasure of passion, yes, and sweet long friendship.

Who can resist your gentle beauty Erika? Oh, how happy we would be together.

Do you know Paris? And Rome? Budapest? And Vienna. The velvet rooms for jeweled suppers, the coast of Spain for solitude, the gilded grand hotels for dancing, the glass and marble stations for goodbyes.

This we could share together, if you accept my love. And who knows? My love might last forever, Erika. Life is so brief.