Charles Aznavour / Herbert Kretzmer
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She may be the face I can't forget,
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May be my treasure or
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The price I have to pay
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She may be the song that summer sings,
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May be the chill that autumn brings,
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May be a hundred different things
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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
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She may be the mirror of my dream,
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C# smile reflected in a stream,
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She may not be what she may seem
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Inside her shell
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She who always seems so happy in a crowd,
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Whose eyes can be so private and so proud,
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No one's allowed to see them when they cry
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She may be the love that cannot hope to last,
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May come to me from shadows of the past,
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That I 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
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Me, I'll take her laughter and her tears
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And make them all my souvenirs
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For where she goes I've got to be
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The meaning of my life is she,
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