As today we’ll have a “what women want post”, here’s a gorgeous song on the subject, from the Notting Hill OST. It’s about Julia Roberts… Although I love her too, I’d rather dedicate this song to one of my favourite actresses, the woman with “600 different smiles”, Meg Ryan. To quote Andy Garcia, in “When a man loves a woman” –
“My wife is an alcoholic. Best person I ever met. She has 600 different smiles. They can light up your life. They can make you laugh out loud, just like that. They can even make you cry, just like that. That’s just with her smiles. You’d have to see her with her kids. You’d have to see how they look at her, when she’s not looking. To think of all the things she lives through, and I couldn’t help her.”
And, come to think of it, one could replace the “she” with “he”… So he… yeah…
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
Maybe 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 of the past
That I’ll 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 in many/rainy years
Me, I’ll take her laughter and her tears
And make them all my souvenirs
And when she goes I’ve got to be
The meaning of my life is
She….She
Oh, she….
