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ABOUT THE SONG
In my opinion, the powerful moment that stops time, as the clock indicates, is when Daisy/Cate encounters Benjamin again.
Such an event would sear itself into memory forever.
Benjamin for his part cannot tell her what he knows. This sort of thing--a secret--is "the most" powerful acting tool. Telling the truth may be unbearable---it may be a moment that will define the rest of your life---but the words you choose will seal your fate. Perhaps silence is the best strategy.
I have always loved those love songs. The lyrics will say--"I saw you on the street."
Bacharach and Warwick--"Always Something There to Remind Me"
Peter & Gordon (comp. Del Shannon) "Go To Pieces"
"You Don't Know Me"
"You Are Everything"
"Needles & Pins"
But something more is implied in my song. The idea that a soul mate, a doppleganger, exists for each one of us in this world. Perhaps our fate is to walk through this world alone, but someday, in heaven, or in a reincarnated state, we will meet again. To believe otherwise---to lose faith in the redemption of love---is to surrender to death.
Benjamin's theme is his inability to "just tell her how you feel." Which is a classic theme throughout the history of sonnet. But Daisy/Cate, on her part, would be paralyzed as she experiences "Just One Look," as the song goes---across a crowded room--or on her way down a busy Christmas sidewalk---and she feels the lyrics of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"--- and she would know in her bones that all of her best-laid plans, the shopping list, the career path and education choices are out the window.