So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do_x000D_ _x000D_ You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue_x000D_ _x000D_ Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean_x000D_ _x000D_ Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.
Interpretation
The quote expresses deep affection and admiration for someone's eyes, conveying a sense of longing and emotional connection.
In this quote, Elton John reflects on the mixture of forgetfulness and fascination in relationships. While he humorously admits to forgetting details about the person's eyes, he emphasizes that their beauty is unmatched and has a profound impact on him. This combination of lightheartedness and sincere admiration captures the complexity of love, where small details may slip one's mind but the emotional essence remains strong.
In practice
In a romantic letter to a partner, you might use this quote to express appreciation.
I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.
I just wish more of my fellow queers would come out sometimes. It's nice out here, you know?
At heart I've always been a music fan. That part of me has never changed since I was a little kid, sitting in a room watching a record go round, looking at the colour of the labels.
I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.
Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.
When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
But the knowledge and love of our Divine Redeemer, of which we were the object from the first moment of His Incarnation, exceed all that the human intellect can hope to grasp. For hardly was He conceived in the womb of the Mother of God, when He began to enjoy the Beatific Vision, and in that vision all the members of His Mystical Body were continually and unceasingly present to Him, and He embraced them with His redeeming love
You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.
If you`d be loved, be worthy to be love
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