Isn't It a Pity? Lyrics

It's a funny thing.
I look at you.
I get a thrill
I never knew.
Isn't it a pity
We never met before?
Here we are at last.
It's like a dream.
The two of us
The perfect team.
It's an awful pity
We never, never met before?

Imagine all the lonely years we've wasted.
Fishing for salmon
Losing at backgammon.
What joys untasted.
My nights were sour,
Spent with Schopenhauer
Let's forget the past.
Let's both agree
That I'm for you
And you're for me.
And it's an awful pity
We never, never met before.
Imagine all the lonely years we've wasted.
You with the neighbors.
I at silly labors.
What joys untasted.

You reading Heine,
I somewhere in China.
Happiest of men I'm sure to be
If only you will say to me
It's an awful pity
We never, never met before.