Patricia+V

Analysis of the Lyrics:
She’s always a woman from Billy Joel’s album The Stranger was created in 1977, the times when Billy Joel was musically influenced by Gordon Lightfoot guitar ballads. In fact, even though this song can be interpreted as sarcastic, she’s always a woman is a ballad which he wrote to his then wife, Elizabeth.

The first four lines show the powerfulness that the woman has on him. He wants to express the weakness he feels towards her, when he says, “she can kill with a smile”. She can control his feelings and even though she can sometimes act like a child Billy always see’s her as a woman.

On the second paragraph it seems as If the woman can do whatever she wants to do to him. When he says “she can take you or leave you” clearly wants to show that she takes the lead of the relationship, she decides. I found very touching when he says, “she steals like a thief”, wanting to say that she has stolen his heart and he is in love with that woman.

Billy Joel wants to declare how power and strong the modern woman is nowadays, and independent she can be.

I found that the strongest line of the song was when he said “she’ll promise you more than the Garden of Eden” which represents the beauty and the paradise in whom the woman lives. The Garden of Eden is the first place where god placed the man after creating it, so clearly the woman has a great influence on him and he arrives to think that she can create a better paradise than the Garden of Eden, created by God.

When he says “she’ll carelessly cut you and laugh while you’re bleeding” he is trying to put into words the feelings he has towards her, as if she can not see that he is been hurt because he is in love with her, but she doesn’t realise.

What is my personal opinion about this song? When I first listened this song, I actually didn’t think he was only talking about his love towards his wife. I thought he could also be talking about his mother or maybe a little girl who’s growing and gains her father’s heart. What I knew is that he wanted to express that nowadays, women lead their own lives and have a very powerful image in the society.

﻿__**Task on the lyrics:**__

And she can't be (……….)
She's (……..) her degree

Bullet points on my exposition:

 * Introduction
 * Analysis of the lyrics
 * Main idea of the song: powerfulness of the woman
 * Personal opinion