Since starting the project there has, for the most part, been a trend toward simplicity. The older arrangements are a little busier and have more going on than the new ones. Maybe you don't hear it so much, but it's there at least in my head. Some of these songs just don't want to be messed with too much. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye is one of those. The melody has a kind of purity and suspense to it that I didn't want to detract from with a bunch of extra ideas. I play it slow. It's just a touching sad and beautiful song to me. I don't think there's much else to say. But before I move onto the next piece, I'd like to recite the lyrics to you. Interesting to note is that Cole Porter was one of the few composers who wrote his own lyrics. Perhaps that's why I find this song to be so pure. And I'm a sucker for the "from major to minor" lyric and harmonic alignment.
Ev'rytime we say goodbye
I die a little
Ev'rytime we say goodbye
I wonder why a little
Why the gods above me
Who must be in the know
Think so little of me
And allow you to go
When you're near there's such an ere
Of Spring about it
I can hear a lark somewhere
Begin to sing about it
There's no love song finer
But how strange the change
From major to minor
Ev'rytime we say goodbye