Elvis Costello | Always Question Authority

She
May be the face I can’t forget
A trace of pleasure or regret
May be 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 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
May be the reason I survive
The why and wherefore I’m alive
The one I’ll care for through the rough and ready 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, she
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I could while away the hours, conferrin’ with the flowers
Consultin’ with the rain
And my head I’d be scratchin’ while
my thoughts were busy hatchin’
If I only had a brain

I’d unravel every riddle for every individ’le,
In trouble or in pain
And my thoughts I’ll be thinkin’
I could be another Lincoln
If I only had a brain

Oh, I could tell you why, the ocean’s near the shore
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I’d sit, and think some more

I would not be just a nothin’ my head all full of stuffin’
My heart all full of pain
I would dance and be merry, life would be a ding-a-derry,
If I only had a brain

Yeah, it’s sad, believe me, missy,
When you’re born to be a sissy
Without vim and verve
But I could show me prowess, be a man not a mou-ess
If I only had the nerve
If I only had the heart
If I only had a brain

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