The set-up: 'Like An Image Passing By' uses the tune of ABBA's 'My Love, My Life' (itself a gorgeous song about losing love) and was used in the English version of a musical for children based on ABBA songs. I don't much care about the context of the song - it works perfectly well alone. This is a song of failure and loss but Elaine Paige puts so much emotion into it that it damn near breaks my heart every time.
I know it is too late,
From this moment time and tide will not wait.
Yet I was master of my fate,
Being the ruling queen,
I never wanted a change of scene.
Like an image passing by, I see my life,
In the twinkling of an eye, my lonely life,
And at this my darkest hour, fading like a flower,
Beauty is bound to die.
From the present to the past, I see my life,
Catching up with me at last, my empty life.
Now the hourglass is turning,
And in my eyes are burning,
Tears I should have cried long ago,
Now I'll cry forever.
Now, it's my turn to sleep,
Oh, how true that beauty's only skin deep.
I was wrong, thinking I could keep,
Everything in my hand,
Knowing my castle was built on sand.
Like an image passing by, I see my life,
In the twinkling of an eye, my lonely life,
And at this my darkest hour, fading like a flower,
Beauty is bound to die.
From the present to the past, I see my life,
Catching up with me at last, my empty life.
Now the hourglass is turning,
And in my eyes are burning,
Tears I should have cried long ago,
Now I'll cry forever.
Now I'll cry forever.
1 comment:
agreed!! one of my favourites too. huge fan of Elaine Paige
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