More music from the Great American Songbook: yearning and fulfillment

So many beautiful songs from 1940s and 50s were about love lost…but there were also songs about love gained, or love within reach.

Here, with lyrics by Gus Kahn, music by Nacio Herb Brown, from the 1941 musical, Ziegfeld Girl…

You stepped out of a dream
You are too wonderful to be what you seem!
Could there be eyes like yours
Could there be lips like yours
Could there be smiles like yours
Honest and truly?

You stepped out of a cloud
I want to take you away, away from the crowd
And have you all to myself
Alone and apart, out of a dream
Safe in my heart

Not exactly loved attained, but there, to be sought and gained.