Joe cocker

You know the song "You are So Beautiful" by Joe Cocker? You know how it goes:

"You are sooo beautiful...to meeeee"

It's a lovely song, but I have to figure that the woman he was singing about couldn't help but be a little offended. Think about it from her standpoint. Cocker starts singing his heart out:

"You are sooo beautiful..."

At this point, I'm sure she's melting. Loving every minute of it. And then he has to go and ruin it:

"...To me"

Wait. Couldn't he just stop at "You are so beautiful"? By adding "to me", he takes away all of the romance. When he adds "to me", he really ends up saying something like this:

"You are so beautiful, to me. Because you're not really that good looking and no one would believe that I thought you were genuinely beautiful. I needed to add 'to me' so that everyone, including you, would understand that 'beautiful' was more symbolic than it was literal."

That doesn't really fit melodically, so Mr. Cocker had to shorten it a bit.

Sorry, Ms. Love-Interest-of-Joe-Cocker.

I'm sure you're a wonderful person.