She
Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) (1974)
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
Maybe the chill that autumn brings
Maybe 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 may be 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'll care for through the rough in many years
Me, I'll take her laughter her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
And where she goes I've got to be
The meaning of my life is she
She oh, she
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meeste regels zo snel dat op het einde van de regel het aksent van tekst
niet op de eerste tel van de maat valt, maar nét daavoor.
Wat je zou verwachten (het tekstaccent en/of de eerste tel van de maat zijn onderstreept):
She may be the face I can't forget
The trace of pleasure or regret ...
maar wat Charles Aznavour zingt is:
She may be the face I can't forget
The trace of pleasure or regret ...