By Elvis CostelloBy Elvis Costello

She may be the face I can't forget She may be the face I can't forget The trace of pleasure or regret The trace of pleasure or regret May be my treasure or the price I May be my treasure or the price I have to pay She may be the song have to pay She may be the song that summer sings May be the that summer sings May be the chill that autumn brings May be a chill that autumn brings May be a hundred different things Within hundred different things Within the measure of a day.the measure of a day.

She may be the beauty or the beast May She may be the beauty or the beast May be the famine or the feast May turn each be the famine or the feast May turn each day into a Heaven or a Hell She may be day into a Heaven or a Hell She may be the mirror of my dreams A smile reflected the mirror of my dreams A smile reflected in a stream She may not be what she may in a stream She may not be what she may seem Inside her shell...seem Inside her shell...

She, who always seems so happy in a She, who always seems so happy in a crowd Whose eyes can be so private crowd Whose eyes can be so private and so proud No one's allowed to see and so proud No one's allowed to see them when they cry She may be the them when they cry She may be the love that cannot hope to last May love that cannot hope to last May come to me from shadows in the past come to me from shadows in the past That I remember 'till the day I dieThat I remember 'till the day I die

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

Me, I'll take the laughter Me, I'll take the laughter and her tears And make and her tears And make them all my souvenirs For them all my souvenirs For where she goes I've got to where she goes I've got to be The meaning of my life be The meaning of my life is She...She Oh, she... is She...She Oh, she...

By Natalia JablonkaBy Natalia Jablonka