"On the Street Where You Live" is a song featured in the 1964 film My Fair Lady with music written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. After the races, Freddy Eynsford-Hill (Jeremy Brett), one of the aristocrats in attendance, is enchanted by Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) and comes to Higgins' house with flowers for her. She, however, is humiliated by her performance at the races and refuses to see anyone. In the song, he is so infatuated that he remains content to loiter on her street.
Lyrics[]
When she mentioned how her aunt bit off the spoon
She completely done me in
And my heart went on a journey to the moon
When she told about her father and the gin
And I never saw a more enchanting farce
Than that moment when she shouted
"Move your bloomin'—"
I have often walked down this street before;
But the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before
All at once am I
Several stories high
Knowing I'm on the street where you live
Are there lilac trees in the heart of town?
Can you hear a lark in any other part of town?
Does enchantment pour
Out of ev'ry door?
No, it's just on the street where you live!
And oh! The towering feeling
Just to know somehow you are near
The overpowering feeling
That any second you may suddenly appear!
People stop and stare
They don't bother me
For there's nowhere else on earth that I would rather be
Let the time go by,
I won't care if I
Can be here on the street where you live
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