Meaning of IT'LL COME TO ME and IT ESCAPES ME - A Short English Lesson with Subtitles

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So in English, when you say, it'll come to me,
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it means that you will remember something later.
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Sometimes I forget things, believe it or not.
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Just today, on the way home, there was a song on the radio,
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and I couldn't think of the name of the singer in the band,
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so I said to my son, "It'll come to me."
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In English when you say, it'll come to me,
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it means that you know, you know,
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but that you can't think of it in the moment,
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and you know that later in the day
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you will remember what you were trying to remember.
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I hope that made some sense to you.
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So, we were listening to a song by the band "Van Halen,"
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and I knew the original singer was David Lee Roth,
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but I couldn't remember the name of the singer
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that replaced him later in the history of the band,
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and so I said to my son, "It'll come to me."
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And believe it or not, it did come to me,
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a little while later I remembered
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that the singer was Sammy Hagar.
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So, when you say, it'll come to me,
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it means that you know you will remember.
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We also have a phrase in English, it escapes me.
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And we use the phrase it escapes me, when we, again,
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know something but just can't quite remember it.
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Oftentimes when I run into former students,
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it will escape me, there name will escape me.
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I'll say to them, "I can't quire remember your name,
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"it escapes me right now.
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"I'm sorry about that but what was your name again?"
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I don't like it when that happens,
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but I have taught for over 20 years,
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I have taught a lot of students,
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so sometimes when I run into former students at the mall,
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their name will escape me,
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and it will take me a little while to remember it,
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or I will just ask them what their name is.
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Anyways, Bob the Canadian here,
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and you're learning English with me,
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and I hope you're having a great day.
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