The "drums/music" reference is, I think, more to a simple bond between people - not specifically love. She's trying to tell Giorgio that she perceives him differently from the rest of the soldiers. "Perhaps it was the way you walked, the way you spoke to your men," she sings. He sees a man who (true or not) hears a beauty in something like a simple drumbeat, while for the others it's just a beat to march in line to. He, like she, she says, sees beauty in things where there doesn't seem to be beauty.
I also love the way Fosca has to keep clarifying her thoughts (the wonderful wordplay with we/they and same/different):
"They hear drums,
You hear music,
As do I,
Don't you see?
We're the same,
We are different,
You and I are different,
They hear only drums..." |
