One of my favourite downtempo modern song with incredibly beautiful lyrics and Elvis Costello's very best magnetic vocal, She has got to be the best theme song ever among the classic movies.
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What I really like about the lyrics is the use of fabulous contrastive adjectives and nouns (antonyms), hereby listed below,
- pleasure or regret
- my treasure or the the price I have to pay
- the song that summer sings; the chill that autumn brings
- the beauty or the beast
- the famine or the feast
- a heaven or a hell
- so private or so proud
- the love that cannot hope to last; shadows of the past
- her laughter and her tears
And every single one of these distinctively described Julia Robert's character Anna Scott to the very detail, which is a famous and quality actress who acts day by day but her true self is not to be shown to anybody around her.
Lyrics:
She
May be the face I can't forget
The trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay
She
May be the song that summer sings
May be the chill that autumn brings
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day
She
May be the beauty or the beast
May be the famine or the feast
May turn each day into a heaven or a hell
She may be the mirror of my dreams
The smile reflected in a stream
She may not be what she may seem
Inside her shell
She
Who always seems so happy in a crowd
Whose eyes can be so private and so proud
No one's allowed to see them when they cry
She
May be the love that cannot hope to last
May come to me from shadows of the past
That I'll remember till the day I die
She
May be the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I'm alive
The one I'll care for through the rough in ready years
Me
I'll take her laughter and her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
For where she goes I've got to be
The meaning of my life is
She
She, oh she
Vocabulary:
trace -- (n) [C or U] a sign that something has happened or existed
famine -- (n) [C or U] when there is not enough food for a great number of people, causing illness and death, or a particular period when this happens
feast -- (n) [C] a special meal with very good food or a large meal for many people
Resources:
Notthing Hill @ IMDb
www.imdb.com/title/tt0125439/
She -- Elvis Costello @ YouTube
http://youtu.be/O040xuq2FR0
She -- Elvis Costello @ STLyrics
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/nottinghill/she.htm
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/trace_3
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/famine?q=famine+
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/feast_1?q=feast+