Blue gardenia Now I'm alone with you And I am oh, so blue He has tossed us aside And, like you, gardenia Once I was near her heart After the teardrops start Where are teardrops to hide? I lived for an hour What more can I tell Love bloomed like a flower Then the petals fell Blue gardenia Thrown to a passing breeze But pressed, yes they're pressed in my book Of memories I lived for an hour What more can I tell? Love bloomed like a flower And then the petals fell Blue gardenia Thrown to a passing breeze But pressed in my book Of memories But pressed in my book Of memories