Frank Sinatra - Good Thing Going Lyrics






It started out like a song, we started quiet and slow with no surprise,
Then one morning I woke to realize we have a good thing going.
It's not that nothing went wrong, some angry moment of course, but just a few,
And only moments no more because we knew we had a good thing going.
And if I wanted too much, was that such a mistake?
Half the time you never wanted enough, oh wake up, I don't make that a crime,
And while it's going along, you take for granted some love will wear away,
We took for granted a lot, and still I say, it could have kept on growing,
Instead of just kept on, we had a good thing going, going, gone.

[musical interlude]

And if I wanted too much, was that such a mistake?
Half the time you never wanted enough, oh wake up, I don't make that a crime,
And while it's going along, you take for granted some love will wear away,
We took for granted a lot, and still I say, it could have kept on going,
Instead of just kept on, we had a good thing going, going, gone.





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  1. P.... Z....

    certainly one of those great songs of the voice!!!

  2. C.... V....

    One of Sinatra's best Saloon albums

  3. M.... B....

    My favorite Sondheim song – Frank's version of course!
    Celebrating in my mind's ear this day my favorite tracks from Frank's final torch album for his own label, SHE SHOT ME DOWN. Pleasantly surprised to be reminded of my favorite song (words & music) by Stephen Sondheim: Good Thing Going (Going, Gone).

    It sounds like a blend of the best of Joe Raposo and The Bergmans: But no. A great ballad by the 'Send in the Clowns' guy (who got to work briefly with my favorite composer Dick Rodgers). Was this from one of Sondheim's Broadway Shows? I always mean to find out but something gets in the way.

    Wonderful tune, and what a perfectly artless lyric. Yes, my favorite song by Sondheim. My favorite recording of it.

    "It started out like a song . . . we had a good thing going.
    And if I wanted too much, was that such a mistake?
    Half the time you never wanted enough, oh wake up, I don't make that a crime!"


    Celebrated this day at SinatraFamily.com -- Forum -- "Siriusly Sinatra" -- MY FAVORITE VERSION -- YOURS TOO?


    https://sinatrafamily.com/forum/showthread.php/50225-My-Favorite-Version-%28yours-too-%29?p=1276155#post1276155

  4. F.... B....

    FACEBOOK postings ofFRANK just regurgitation of YOU TUBE.Fan base is really here without some of the idiotic administrators who think they are Sinatra guardians.They're not.

  5. N.... J....

    Yeah this record is pure magic 💿 Frank Lives 🎙️

  6. F.... P....

    wow!!!!

  7. Z.... T....

    Amazing song! I just love it. From his last saloon album, and it is just a masterpiece !