By Bernstein

• Song Type: Song
• This song was used in programs.

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The lyric for this song was credited to Comden, Green and Bernstein. The song was written for On the Town, but dropped before rehearsals started. Six years later, Bernstein asked Comden and Green for permission to include it in the score he was writing for a production of Peter Pan that was to star Jean Arthur. Bernstein was to write incidental music and just a few songs, He said that he would write a new lyric for the song, but he did not, or at least mostly did not. (See below. for more information.) In the end, the song was not included in Peter Pan.

When asked about the song years later, Green said that he and Comden wrote most of the lyric but there were four lines about which he wasn't sure: "The kiss we never dared / We'll dare in dreaming / The love we never shared / Can still have meaning." Those lines, of course, contain a false rhyme. Make of that what you will.