Learn English with Miley Cyrus (FLOWERS Lyric Review)

Welcome to JForrest English training.

I'm Jennifer and today we're going to review the Hip Song flowers by Miley Cyrus.

And we're going to review the lyrics of this song so you can learn a lot of advanced vocabulary,

natural expressions, and advanced grammar and even the correct pronunciation.

Let's get started.

Let's get started with the song review and we'll go through the song together.

Now keep in mind for copyright purposes, I'm not allowed to play the song, but I have included

the link to where you can listen to the song with the lyrics so you can learn what the

lyrics mean.

And then after this lesson, you can listen to the song with the lyrics.

The song starts by saying we were good.

We were gold kind of dream that can't be sold.

We would go, we would go.

I said I wasn't going to say notice the verb tense here.

We were good.

What verb tenses fans, of course, it's the past simple of the verb to be so it means

of course they are no longer good.

Which implies this is a song about breakup, a breakup.

A breakup is when a couple a romantic couple of days together, but then they break up and

they're no longer together.

That's a breakup.

So you can say this is a breakup song.

So here I gave you some examples.

This is a song about a breakout.

This is are now in here.

We're no longer together.

We broke up.

This is the phrasal verb break up and this is the past for broke is the past simple of

break.

We were good.

We're not anymore.

We were gold.

We're not anymore.

kind of dream that can't be sold in music.

It's very common to reduce certain words for pronunciation purposes because it flows smoother

kinda is a reduction of the word kind of.

And in this case, it means the kind of a dream so it's talking about the type of dream the

kind of dream the type of dream kind of dream that can't be sold.

We were right till we weren't built a home and watched it burn.

So here when they were still a couple before they broke up, they built a home together

and then they broke up and now they're watching it burn.

Of course, metaphorically, not literally.

They're watching all their memories their time together, burn.

So this sets the tone of the song we know it's going to be a sad song about a breakup.

Now this is the pre chorus I didn't want to leave you.

One is a reduction.

It's the word want to but when you're singing, it's a lot easier to say I didn't want off

than saying I didn't want to leave you.

So it's just easier to say in spoken English, especially when you're singing.

So this is saying that it wasn't my Lee's decision to break up to end the relationship.

I didn't want to leave you.

I did not want to lie.

I'm not sure what they're lying about a lie is of course when you do not tell the truth

to lie.

Now notice the verb I'm using here, you tell the truth.

In this case, truth is a noun and we do not use the verb say you never say the truth and

you never say lies.

You always tell the truth or you tell lies.

But when you use tell tell is your verb and lies is a noun.

It doesn't have to be plural.

You could tell all lie, or you can tell lies in the plural.

But for truth there's only one truth right?

Which is why we use the truth and it's singular but you can say all lie or lies in plural.

But again, lies and truth that's the now and the verb is tell but you can also use lie

as a verb.

For example, I lied to my boyfriend.

This is our verb lie and it's in the past simple I lied to my boyfriend.

I didn't want to lie, started to cry.

But then I remember now the song goes into the chorus and although this is a breakup

song, the song becomes more optimistic, more upbeat in the chorus.

I can buy myself flowers, write my name in the sand.

Now notice she doesn't repeat this.

I can but it's implied for every line.

I can write my name and the sound I can talk to myself for hours.

But that would sound quite repetitive to say it over and over.

So this I can applies to all the actions by myself flowers.

So someone else usually gives you flowers right?

I can by myself hours.

Write my name in the sand.

Because normally when you're in love you write your name with your initials and your boyfriend

or girlfriend's initials in the sand with a big heart over allocated so she's saying

I can write my name in the sand.

Talk to myself for hours.

This is a good time reference here for hours.

This is a nonspecific amount of time but it sounds like a long time.

For example, we worked on the project for hours, four hours.

That sounds like oh long time even though you don't specify it.

Now you can specify the time and say we worked on the project for three hours and be more

specific but if you don't include a specific quantity and just say four hours, it sounds

like a long period of time.

Now this time reference for hours is flexible and you can use it in different verb tenses.

For example, you can use it in the present perfect continuous and you can say we've been

working on the project for hours.

So remember for hours just means a long period of time and this in the present perfect continuous

because it shows that the action started in the past and continues until now.

And we actually don't know when the action will stop.

But this one in the past simple.

It's a completed action you're not working on it anymore, but yesterday or last week,

you worked on the project for hours coming back to our song, talk to myself for hours.

I can talk to myself for a long period of time.

I can see things you don't understand.

I can take myself dancing notice this sentence structure, you can take someone and then you

have an activity or a location.

So generally someone else will take you dancing.

They will come to your house and you'll get in the car and you will go together to a club

and go dancing right.

But my haste take I can take myself dancing.

You don't have to use this in a romantic home.

Numbers then together we went to the doctor's appointment.

I took my mom to her doctor's appointment.

We waited four hours for a long period of time.

So generally we use this when we want to express some frustration.

Oh, I was stuck in traffic for hours.

Okay, let's continue on, and I can hold my own hand.

So of course let's say this is your boyfriend or your husband.

It's very common to hold hands to hold hands.

And she's just joking and saying, I don't need you I get a hold my own hand which I

think is quite funny.

I can love me better than you can.

Notice our sentence structure here, this is a comparative sentence.

I can and then a certain activity, and then we have our comparative adjective better,

then someone can.

Let's review these two sentences here.

Miley can sing better than I can.

That's true.

Or I can say Miley can sing better than me.

Notice the difference between these two sentences.

In this one I have I and then can because I'm using a verb you need a subject before

the verb I can.

Now Miley uses this word can a lot in her chorus which is probably why she ended it

on can rather than just being better than you better than you better than you can.

Now you can also just say better than someone and in this case you want a pronoun.

Miley can sing better than me.

And the next part just repeat can love me better over and over again in the song.

Now the next part paint my nails so that's when you put nail polish you paint your nails

with nail polish, paint my nails cherry red, the color match the roses that you left.

So match well what is being matched here when you match you have two or more things that

are coming together.

So we have cherry red, which is a bright red.

And then we have roses, which are also red, so I can say oh look my nail polish matches.

The row says this sentence structure is x matches why our verb is match.

And it just means x the nail polish combines well with y combines well in the sense that

it is similar to similar to so if I'm wearing this sweater, I might say hmm what lipstick

will match this sweater.

Or what jewelry will match this sweater.

What combines well with this sweater and you can do that for paint when you're painting

your room.

Does the paint match the chair?

Does the pillow match the chair for example?

Okay, let's continue on.

no remorse, no regret.

These are two great words especially in the context of a breakup song.

Remorse is a deep feeling of sadness for a wrongdoing.

So let's say my Lea cheated on her boyfriend and that's why they broke up.

It's considered wrong to cheat on someone right?

So that's all wrong.

A wrongdoing is something an action that is considered wrong by society or by your own

personal values.

So if Miley cheated on her boyfriend, she might feel remorse, which is a really deep

feeling of sadness.

Now regret is very similar to remorse to be honest.

It's a feeling of sadness over something that has happened.

So very similar both of them are negative emotions.

I would say remorse.

It's a deeper feeling.

It's a more painful feeling.

And also there's always a wrong doing associated with it.

Whereas regret you didn't necessarily do something wrong.

Maybe you regret not applying for a job, but it isn't wrong to not apply for that job.

It's just a decision that you made.

So there's very similar but just used in different context.

So no remorse.

She doesn't feel a deep feeling of sadness for a wrongdoing and no regret.

She doesn't regret ending the relationship.

She doesn't regret telling the person that she doesn't love them anymore.

No regret.

I forgive every word.

You said.

When you forgive someone, it means you're no longer mad at them.

Now we get into the course again, and it's the same as before before she said I didn't

want to lie and now she's saying I didn't want to fight.

When two people fight is when they're in an argument or a disagreement.

Oh bah bah bah, bah, bah bah.

That's you know, they're fighting.

Oh, my parents are fighting again.

Or my two friends are fighting again.

You don't just have to fight with a romantic relationship.

You can fight with your sibling you can fight with your friends.

So when you get into a disagreement and you're mad at each other, you can say we're fighting.

Here are two example sentences.

My sister and I find a lot of very common for siblings to fight.

My husband and I rarely fight.

So fight is the only word that's different here and then it goes right into the chorus

which we already reviewed.

So now and we reviewed this already, and this is the chorus again.

And this is the chorus again.

So that is the end of the song so now you know all the lyrics from the song.

So again, click on this link it will be in the description below and I want you to listen

to Miley Cyrus's song and you can follow along with the lyrics as well.

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