vendredi 19 février 2010

Elvis Costello : She


On en a tous rêvé au moins une fois : le coup de foudre au premier regard, trouver l'amour de sa vie et le chérir jusqu'à la fin de ses jours... J'ai récemment revu "Coup de foudre à Notting Hill" et à ce niveau-là, ce film sait de quoi il parle, non ? Bref, au début et à la fin de cette belle, même si improbable, histoire d'amour entre Julia Roberts et Hugh Grant, on peut entendre la magnifique chanson "She", chantée par Charles Aznavour puis Elvis Costello. Elle décrit en quelques mots un amour simple, profond, celui après lequel on court tous, ou presque. Celui que je pense avoir ressenti un jour, il y a bien longtemps...

«She may be the face I can't forget
The trace of pleasure or regret
Maybe 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
A 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 maybe the love that cannot hope to last
May come to me from shadows in the past
That I remember 'till the day I die

She maybe the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I'm alive
The one I care for through the rough and ready years

Me, I'll take the 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...»

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