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What a Coincidence

from Modern Love Songs for voice and piano (1997)

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Description

Premiere

7 October 1997
Chester Biscardi, voice and piano
The Coffee House Club
New York, NY

Text

Lyrics by William Zinsser

Vocal Range

medium voice (original): A#3 – D5
high voice: D4 – F#5

Publisher

Biscardi Music Press No. B48-97-1
Classical Vocal Reprints:
     High Voice No. CVR3618: Print / Digital
     Medium Voice No. CVR3617:Print / Digital
Theodore Font Musical Literature, Inc.
     Medium Voice: Print / Digital

Program Notes

WHAT A COINCIDENCE

What a coincidence!
That you should come along
Just when I was wishing
That someone just like you
Would come along and end my lonely night.

What a coincidence!
That you should prove me wrong
Just when I was thinking
That nothing in my world
Was going right.

     What a fantastic, amazing contradiction of the odds!
     My lucky day!
     What a roll of the dice,
     Suffice it to say
     You’re a gift from the strict, unpredictable gods.

What an astonishment!
That you were lonely too.
Just when you were wishing
That someone you could love
Might possibly be waiting, waiting just for you.
What a coincidence!
Or was it always meant to be?
That the someone who was waiting,
Who was always meant to love you,
Was me?