Better than sailing at midnight
Better than diving for pearls
Better than skiing in Aspen

Better than feeding the squirrels
Better than finding a horseshoe
Better than losing your head

Better than anything thought of
Better than anything said
Better than singing right out loud

Or being spotted in a crowd
Better than anything except being in love


Do you know, being in love

Better than four sets of Dizzy

Better than Count Basie's band
Better than Rollins and Coltrane
Better than being on the stand

Better than Ella Fitzgerald
Better than Miles' latest news


Better than Bill Evans' ballads
Better than Joe Williams' blues
Better than hearing Lady Day

Or checking in at Monterey
Better than anything except being in love


Do you know, being in love
It's a circus


Elephants dancing
Clowns on parade
Better than peanuts and popcorn

Fresh lemonade
Better than rides on the midway
Better than seals blowing horns

Better than men shot from cannons
Better than fresh ears of corn
Better than balancing a wire

Or watching tigers leap through fire
Better than anything except being in love