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While many associate the song purely with "The King," its DNA stretches back to 18th-century France. The melody is based on "," a 1784 romance composed by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini.
Interestingly, the original French song is quite bittersweet, warning that the "pleasure of love lasts only for a moment," while the "pain of love lasts a lifetime". The American adaptation by Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, and George David Weiss flipped this on its head, turning it into a song of hopeful, absolute surrender. Why It Still Resonates this_is_so_romantic_elvis_presley_cant_help_fal...