Music is a key element in my existence, and so there are a lot of songs that I absolutely melt, die, live, smile, cry etc. while listening to.
There are songs about a woman. And then there are songs about a woman.
The following is one of my favourite songs. It incorporates a very real picture of the essence of a woman one may be in love with. It provides a space where ambivalence, which is a characteristic of love, is allowed to exist freely. The song is like one of those compliments, where you know its not a fake one because it speaks of and to something the lies deep within you. And also because it mentions your not so pretty aspects as well. Like when someone says "You are weird, but I still like you". The song is in praise of a woman, in spite of, or- even better!- because of all her vulnerabilities. Where it is not only the pleasant things that draw you to her, but all the unpleasantness and uncertainty she evokes in you.
Its really the nicest and the most complete song to sing for a woman, in my opinion.
Here you go:
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 the summer sings
May be the chill the 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 crowded 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
But 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 many 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...
