Spring has just started and we talked about the seasons here.
Now, how about listening to a beautiful song that has the seasons in it?
James Taylor is a legend, but he’s the kind of legend who knows how to keep a low profile and play it cool. Let’s enjoy this beautiful song, get to know the lyrics and have fun here!
Quando estudamos uma nova língua, inevitavelmente a comparamos à nossa. Mas há inúmeros casos em que a simples troca de vocábulos do português para o inglês, não se aplica, sendo essa, uma abordagem nociva. E um equivoco recorrente entre os alunos, é quando querem dizer: mais um dia, mais uma vez, mais uma música, etc. A ordem das palavras no inglês é: one more day, one more time, one more song.
Hallelujah! What a beautiful word! The song, originally written and sung by Leonard Cohen in 1984, has been performed by so many artists in various languages. But this cover by Jeff Buckley, an American singer, songwriter and guitarist, is a very special one!
“And even though it all went wrong, I’ll stand right here before the Lord of song, with nothing on my tongue but ‘Hallelujah’.”
It’s, as I say, a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way but with enthusiasm, with emotion…It’s a rather joyous song. I wanted to write something in the tradition of the hallelujah choruses but from a different point of view…It’s the notion that there is no perfection—that this is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything.
On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.
~ Leonard Cohen
Listen to it and work on the lyrics here! You’ll love to sing along with this tune!
https://www.elephantjournal.com/2010/06/the-top-10-most-popular-hallelujah-renditions-on-youtube/
At the other day, when a student and I were working together, there was this need to introduce him to the expression: “It doesn’t matter”. Then, he showed me this song. It’s a cute, catchy song and I loved it! Listen to it! Have fun and work on it here!
Important! Song lyrics will ignore the rules of standard grammar and should never be used as a guide. The songwriter may pick a non-standard form so that it matches the rhythm of the song better, so that it rhymes better, because it is more evocative of a place or time, because it is in, or emulating a dialect, to be provocative or rebellious, and so on.
So “It doesn’t matter!” is correct.
Hi there! You may have heard this song from Joe Cocker, that became very famous, from a movie called 9 1/2 Weeks. Have you watched it?
This is a good song for us who have been studying Phrasal Verbs, to work on. So enjoy the song and work on the lyrics here!