Having achieved popularity as a couple’s “first dance” song, this rendition is actually a cover by Beyoncé, who stars as R&B sensation Etta James in the film “Cadillac Records.” Chronicling the life of record-company executive, Leonard Chess, played by Adrien Brody, and featuring many of the artists who recorded for the Chicago-based Chess Records, “Cadillac Records” is a walk down memory lane with music by Chucky Berry, Muddy Waters, and more. Oh, and Adrien Brody steals the screen as the tall, dark, and handsome Polish-American Chess. When he gives “Etta” that shy smile of his, I just melt.
“At last
My love has come along.
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song.”
“Oh yeah, and you smile,
And then the spell was cast.
And here we are in Heaven
For you are mine at last.”
Although the search for love may prove to be laborious and/or wrought with emotion, when one is successful in the hunt and “captures” the heart of his/her beloved, nothing is sweeter and life literally becomes “like a song.” This is the type of love that describes 50 year long marriages or the kind that when one spouse dies, the other never remarries. And I would be honored if I could one day know a love like this...
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