She must have known from the moment she saw him,
From the look in his eye, and the way that he smiled,
She must have dreamed of lying beside him,
His hands on her body, his whispers of love;
There is nothing that the eye can't see,
There is nothing that the heart can't feel,
There is nothing that a love can't heal, whatever is waiting,
It is meant to be, it is meant to be;
She must have felt the stirrings of passion,
It's been missing so long with the man in her life,
But now at last there is someone beside her, somebody to guide her,
Someone to love;
There is nothing that the eye can't see,
There is nothing that the heart can't feel,
There is nothing that a love can't heal, whatever is waiting,
It is meant to be;
Oh the time will come when we'll be living the dream,
It's that miracle moment for being what we believe;
There is nothing that the eye can't see,
There is nothing that the heart can't feel,
There is nothing that a love can't heal, whatever is waiting,
Sooner or later, it is meant to be, it is meant to be, it was meant to be,
She must have known - it was meant to be,
She must have known - it was meant to be,
She must have known - it was meant to be,
She must have known;
Now she's heading for the sunshine, she's gonna be like Shirley
Valentine - she must have known - it was meant to be,
She must have known - it was meant to be;
She must have known,
Now she's heading for the sunshine, she's gonna be like Shirley
Valentine - she must have known.
"A woman, perhaps the same one, walks into a party one night and across the room is somebody they have an instant sparkle between and, within just a short time, they both realise that this is that person of their dreams, this is the soul-mate... waiting. I suppose that is what I am suggesting; that there is always someone out there, however long it takes, that someone will be there for you - eventually. And at the end, there's a bit of a smile for me because I enjoyed the film 'Shirley Valentine', about the lady leaving and going off to Greece to run or work in a bar on the beach - and I'm sure a lot of people are tempted to do that. And that's what she does. So that kinds of wraps the whole trilogy of songs up. It wasn't actually designed like that initially but, I think, being close to so many people, as I said earlier, who are breaking up in their relationships it makes you think; it disturbs the stability of your own lifestyle and it's very sad to see what used to be a strong couple coming to you in individual status - and both talking about the other in acrimonious ways. The three songs tell the same story but from different angles. I remember, years ago, I saw this famous Japanese film ('Rashomon'), which recounted four people's memories of a murder and people's recollections were so utterly different. I was fascinated by that. That doesn't mean it's what I've brought to these three songs but, in fact, they do have something in common; they involve the same people. That's the way they started developing. I didn't do it on purpose, but I must have been thinking along the same lines each time, and so I kind of wove them into a sort of a story."
The Getaway Gazette, September 2002
Albums
"She Must Have Known" appears on the following albums:
