LyricMeaning

It Is Only a Paper Moon
Ethel Waters

I never feel a thing is real
When I'm away from you
Out of your embrace
The world's a temporary parking place

Mmm, mm, mm, mm
A bubble for a minute
Mmm, mm, mm, mm
You smile, the bubble has a rainbow in it

Say, it's only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me

Yes, it's only a canvas sky
Hanging over a muslin tree
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me

Without your love
It's a honky-tonk parade
Without your love
It's a melody played in a penny arcade

It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phoney as it can be
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me


  Purchase "It Is Only a Paper Moon"   Purchase Entire Album   Email Video to Friends   Play Youtube "It Is Only a Paper Moon" Video   Play Spotify "It Is Only a Paper Moon" Song   View Wikipedia "It Is Only a Paper Moon" Entry   Receive Emails for Future Ethel Waters Lyrics

Email:

  Link to "It Is Only a Paper Moon"   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Lyrics For You

Loading...

Lyrics by Ethel Waters

  (What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue   A Hundred Years from Today   After All These Years   Am I Blue   Am I Blue?   Am I Blue? [From on with the Show]   Black and Blue   Black and Blue [From Hot Chocolate]   Cabin in the Sky   Careless Love   Come up and See Me Sometime   Come Up and See Me Sometime [Take a Chance]   Dinah   Down Home Blues   Georgia Blues   Georgia Blues [take 2]   Get up off Your Knees   Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe   Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe (r [outtake]   Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe /   Heat Wave   Heat Wave [As Thousands Cheer]   Heat Wave [From As Thousands Cheer]   Heatwave   Heebie Jeebies   His Eye Is on the Sparrow [DVD]   Honey in the Honeycomb   Honey in the Honeycomb   Honey in the Honeycomb (reprise)   Honey in the Honeycomb [Cabin in the Sky]   I Got Rhythm   I Got Rhythm [From Girl Crazy]   If You Ever Change Your Mind   Jeepers Creepers   Love Is the Thing   Memories of You   Memories of You [Blackbirds of 1934]   Midnight Blues   Miss Otis Regrets   Moonglow   One Sweet Letter from You   Organ Grinder Blues   Organ Grinder Blues   Paper Moon   Quicksand [DVD]   Royal Garden Blues   Royal Garden Blues [take 2]   Shake That Thing   Shine on Harvest Moon   Someday, Sweetheart   St. Louis Blues   Stormy Weather   Stormy Weather [Cotton Club Parade]   Stormy Weather, song (from the Cotton Club Parade ...   Sugar   Supper Time   Sweet Georgia Brown   Sweet Man   Take Your Black Bottom Outside   Taking a Chance on Love   Taking A Chance On Love (for the musical Cabin In ...   Taking a Chance on Love (full reprise lyric) [Supp...   Taking a Chance on Love (reprise)   Taking a Chance on Love [Cabin in the Sky]   Taking a Chance on Love [From Cabin in the Sky]   Taking a Chance on Love [From Crimes and Misdemean...   That Da Da Strain   Three Little Words   Tiger Rag   What Goes Up Most Come Down   What Goes up Must Come Down   When Your Lover Has Gone   You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me

Related Songs

  It's Only a Paper Moon - Frank Sinatra  It's Only A Paper Moon - Harry Nilsson  It's Only A Paper Moon - Marvin Gaye  It's Only A Paper Moon - Maureen Mcgovern  It's Only A Paper Moon - Ray Bush's Bbc Jazz  It's Only A Paper Moon - Natalie Cole  It's Only a Paper Moon - Jim Reeves  It's Only a Paper Moon - Bart Van Lier  It's Only A Paper Moon - Allan Harris  It's Only a Paper Moon - Ben Wilmot  It's Only a Paper Moon - Benjamin Sears  It's Only a Paper Moon - Bennie Wallace  It's Only a Paper Moon - Bert Kaempfert  It's Only a Paper Moon - Acker Bilk  It's Only a Paper Moon - Paul McCartney  It's Only A Paper Moon - James Taylor  It's Only a Paper Moon - Perry Como  It's Only A Paper Moon - Andy Bey  It's Only a Paper Moon - Harold Arlen  It's Only a Paper Moon - Nat King Cole  It's Only A Paper Moon - Bobby Darin  It's Only a Paper Moon - Ella Fitzgerald  It's Only A Paper Moon - Herb Alpert  It's Only A Paper Moon - Bing Crosby  It's Only A Paper Moon - Emilie-Claire Barlow  It's Only A Paper Moon - Cliff Edwards  It's Only a Paper Moon - Derek Paravicini  It's Only A Paper Moon - Bobby Darin  It's Only A Paper Moon - Harry Nilsson  It's Only A Paper Moon - James Taylor  It's Only A Paper Moon - Jim Reeves  It's Only A Paper Moon - Nat King Cole  It's Only A Paper Moon - Paul McCartney  It's Only A Paper Moon - Perry Como  It's Only A Paper Moon - Harold Arlen  April Fool - Beady Belle  Tears - Christian Kane  Paper Moon - Cohen  Paper Wings - Gillian Welch  Under A Paper Moon - All Time Low  It's Only a Paper Moon (1960 Version)...  Paper Moon - Laura Pursell  Paper Thin - ABC  Paper Thin [1986 Demo][*] - ABC  Paper Thin - ABC  Paper Moon - Kelli Ali  Paper Moon - Shout Out Louds  Paper Moon - Seanan McGuire  Paper Moon - Ella Fitzgerald  Paper Moon - Erin McKeown  Paper Moon - Our Lady Peace  Paper Moon - Ryan Adams  Paper Moon - James Taylor  Paper Moon - Theresa Sokyrka  Paper Moon - George Benson  Paper Moon - Natalie Cole  Paper Moon - Shout Out Loud  Paper Moon - Chic Gamine  Paper Moon - Tommy heavenly6  Paper Moon - Whiskeytown  Less Than Perfect - Paper Moon  These New Friends Of Yours... - Paper Moon  String of Blinking Lights - Paper Moon  Volcano (Paper Moon) - Paper Moon  The Pancake Bay Weather Station. - Paper Moon  Paper Thin (1986 Demo) - ABC  Two Sides Of The Moon - Asia  Ghost - Cohen  Rocket\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Theme - Pharrell  Pale Moon on Paper Town - Cory Branan  After the Thunderstorm...  Storms - Nanci Griffith  New Year's Eve - Kashmir  Rock Paper Scissors - Katzenjammer  Paper And Ink - Chapman Tracy  Rock-Paper-Scissors - Katzenjammer  Don't Let It Bring You Down - Annie Lennox  Don't Let It Bring You Down - Crosby Stills Nash  Don't Let It Bring You Down - Morcheeba  Paper & Ink - Tracy Chapman  Paper And Ink - Tracy Chapman  Paper & Ink - Tracy Chapman  Secret Mission - Big Head Todd & the Monsters  Small Favors - Billy Dean  Tingle Tangle - The Lightning Seeds  Tingle Tangle - Lightning Seeds  Out Here - Peter Mulvey  It's Only A Paper Moon/i Like Him...  It's Only A Paper Moon / I Like Him...  It's Only A Paper Moon / I Like Him...  IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON\/I LIKE HER...  IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON\/I LIKE HIM...  Put It On Paper - Ann Nesby F/ Al Green  Some Mistakes - Brad Paisley  Paper Heart - Turin Brakes  Put It On Paper - Al Green  It's Only A Paper Moon/i Like Her...  Two Side Of The Moon - Asia  Fade [english] - OZ  Don't Let It Bring You Down - Sting  Cross My Heart - Michael W. Smith  Paper Cut - Jordin Sparks  Circling Around The Moon - Mellencamp John Cougar  Paper Sun - Nazareth  Paper-Cuts - Let Go  Paper Lantern Night - Trish Thuy Trang  Detours - Sheryl Crow  Circling Around The Moon - John Mellencamp  911 - Cyndi Lauper  Print On Paper - Stephen Egerton  2 Sides Of The Moon - Asia  paper planes - Johan  It's Only Paper - Freddie Hart  Secret Mission - Big Head Todd And The Monsters  Paper Sun - Nazareth  Kites - Simon Dupree & the Big Sound  Nobody Else - The Statler Brothers  The Only Piece That You Get - Superchunk  Vapor - Little Big Town  Good Girls - Tim McGraw  Fireworks - Florence Welch  Papercuts - Runner Runner  Paper, Scissors, Rock - Chris Brown  Paper House - Lisa Hannigan  Paper Tigers - Jaci Velasquez  Paper Doll - Sky Ferreira  Brain Damage - The Flaming Lips  Paper Rosie - Gene Watson  Tuesday Moon - Neutral Milk Hotel  Bowl Full of Stars - Sara Hickman  DON'T LET IT BRING YOU DOWN - Neil Young  Don't Let It Bring You Down - Angie Aparo  Don't Let It Bring You Down - Neil Young  Don't Let Bring You Down...  Don't Let It Bring You Down...  The Night You Saved My Life - Tanya Donelly  Old Movies - Amplifier  Don't Let It Bring You Down - Amanda Marshall  Dress Rehearsal - Taken  A Paper 'n A Promise - The Blue Shadows  My Birthday, The Moon Festival - Steve Kilbey  Worlds Are Made of Paper - Ben Taylor  I Just Wanna See - Smash Mouth  Monster Love - Goldfrapp  Firework - Lea Michele  Firework - The Voice  Firework - X Factor (UK)  Firework - Kidz Bop Kids  Firework (Single) - Katy Perry  Katy Perry Firework the third single of the album ...  Firework - Glee  Flume (Bon Iver cover) - Peter Gabriel  Silver Waves - Dispatched  This Old Song - Iration  Rotation of Crops...  Firework [Glee Cast Concert Version] [Version]...  Firework [Glee Cast Concert Version] [Version]...  Paper House - The Walkmen  Firework - Matt Cardle  Brain Damage (Pink Floyd Cover) - Bim Skala Bim  Bolivia - Esham  Steve Forbert's Moon River - Steve Forbert  Don't Let It Bring You Down...  Don't Let It Bring You Down...  Don't Let It Bring You Down...  Don't Let It Bring You Down...  Parable Of The Sower - Forgive Durden  This is Not a Love Song - Dawn Xiana Moon  Dont Let It Bring You Down - Q And Not U  Look Away - Lo-Fang  Money Right - Maffew Ragazino  We Do the Ska - Chris Murray  Veshengro - The Incredible String Band  How It Look - Nikko Lafre  Spoon - The Cadets  Paper Forest [Birds] - Emmy the Great  The Moon - Cat Power  Firework - Katy Perry  Black Swan - Sunset Rubdown  Paper Sack Full Of Memories - Freddie Hart  Paper Plane - Persephone's Bees  Mama Sold Roses - Gene Watson  Man In The Moon - Kim Sozzi  Paper Blood - Emerson Lake And Palmer  Only Wings - Alannah Myles  Scarz - Jim Jones  Brian Damage - Pink Floyd  Brain Damage - Pink Floyd  Don't Let It Bring You Down - Eurythmics  Don't Let It Bring You Down - Eurythmics  Paper Hearts - Chris Michaud  Put That Ring On My Finger - Andrews Sisters  Firework - Glee Cast  The Remainder - Peggy Sue  Paper Doll - Pm Dawn  Horror Scope - Albatross  I Chase Paper - Plies  Paper Cutz - k-os  Minimum Wage - Grand Hallway  Between Pacific Coasts - The Promise Ring
  Please consider supporting this site by Clicking Here and Bookmarking whenever you search and shop Amazon. It costs you nothing but it supports us and gives us credit and we appreciate it greatly.