Joy Enriquez- How can I Not Love You

This song is actually the theme song from Anna and the King (starring Jodie Foster and Chow Yun Fat).

Context: Both Anna and the king have fallen hopelessly in love with each other but...
(cue opening lines of song)

cannot be together because:

How can a yellow-skinned king (who has tons of wives and children already) marry an angmoh governess, whose beliefs are too radical for the urban society of Siam?

*smacks forehead*

At the end of it all, this movie stops just short of transcending racial boundaries and societal norms.. *yawn* Come on !! I remember watching this in the cinema and thinking, "What?? Sad ending? They are not together eventually?? GIVE ME BACK MY MONEY!!"

So, just to remind us that we cannot expect happy endings all the time (like how we always anticipate perfect cadences), I have decided to use this piece for my first analysis!

The analysis is sure proving to be challenging compared to the movie...