1 HOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY LESSON - Learn Advanced English Vocabulary From Native Speakers!

Do you like listening to music? Well, in this lesson we're going to review the song lyrics

to four different songs so you can learn a lot of natural vocabulary, Advanced grammar

and even pronunciation in a really fun way. Let's get started with our first song. Welcome

to our song, a very popular older but very popular songs. So we'll go through the song

together and

I'll explain some of the most common vocabulary, so let's start right here. I heard that you're

settled down settle down. This is a common phrasal verb to settle down means that you

accept responsibility and you live a calmer life. This is generally a natural thing that

happens when people are in their early 20s.

Did 20, some people take longer to settle down. Some people take until they're 30, 35

40, or even later to settle down. Now, generally, when you settle down, you get married, you

buy a house. You have kids. You find a stable job. All of these are the accept responsibility

and live a Kamar life settle down. Now we use

Settle down in a different context, that's perhaps more common for your daily use, especially

as a student in the classroom. Because notice this word here calm calmer when you settle

down, it is also used to tell everyone to calm down. So if you're in a classroom and

you're a teacher and all these students are just talking to each other, making a

A lot of noise you would say settle down settle down so you're telling everyone to calm, calm

down. So it's also used in that context when a teacher or a parent, or even a boss might

say everyone.

Settle down. And in this case, it's the same as the phrasal verb, calm down which simply

means to become calmer to become calmer notice for pronunciation. There's no l in this word

is not call with an L know, is calm bomb, and notice the vowel, even it's a na Ang Ang

calm, calm down.

Calm down, I heard that you're settled down. So Adele heard that the person that she used

to be in a romantic relationship with has now settled down. So he's probably married

someone else that you found a girl. Oh yes and you're married. Now so as we discuss,

this is an aspect of settling down which

Which is finding a stable relationship.

I heard that your dreams came true. Guess she gave you things. I didn't give to you.

So, Adele is saying, well, you chose this other woman to settle down with so likely

because she gave you things, maybe, love, attention, respect, whatever. Those things

were that, I didn't give you.

Now notice, it's guess, guess this is when you say, I guess because, of course adult

doesn't know 100% for certain that. That's the reason that her ex-boyfriend chose to

settle down with another woman instead of her, right? So she's using, I guess to say

there's some doubt doubt.

Uncertainty not 100% certain. This subject is missing hair. This is commonly done in

spoken English instead of saying I guess you can just say guess guess she gave you things

I guess. She's

Late because she missed her bus. Okay, so you might be discussing why a co-worker is

Leo, I guess she's late because she missed her bus. You can also get rid of this part,

I guess, I guess she missed her bus. So the question could be why do you think Sarah is

late? I guess she missed her bus. You're not 100% certain. So there's some doubt or uncertainty.

There, I guess she missed her bus.

Old friend. Why are you so shy? Ain't like you to hold back or hide from the light. Let's

talk about this word. I know students ask a lot of questions about the word ain't ain't

you need to know. That ain't is slang. It is slang in spoken English. I don't use ain't

in my speech because I don't really

Ich with a lot of slang, and I don't recommend that you use it, to be honest. But the word

ain't even though it's slang and I recommend avoiding it in spoken or written English,

it is extremely common in music, extremely common, even with musicians who wouldn't use

slang in their regular speech. They

We'll use it in music why it's simply because ain't is a one-syllable word and it's easier

to say and in music the timing is very important. It's the Rhythm it's the beat of the song

so it's just a lot easier to say the word ain't. Now in this case ain't means is not

It isn't or is not which means isn't as a contraction. So notice isn't isn't two syllables.

Ain't ain't one syllable rhythmically. It's easier to say ain't and it changes the sound

of the song and that's why it's just very common in music. It isn't like you to hold

back ain't like

Like you to hold back again. I don't recommend using it in spoken English but you will hear

it all the time in music. What is it mean to hold back?

This is when you stop yourself from showing any emotion or you. Stop yourself from sharing

your opinion. For example, I held back my anger in the meeting today. If we're talking

about an emotion, you would identify the emotion. I held back my anger, my frustration, my jealousy.

Generally, it's negative emotions because generally we want to share positive emotions

but you might hold back your Delight. If you got promoted and your coworker also wanted

the promotion, but your coworker didn't get the promotion. You got it. You might hold

back, your excitement, your happiness, because you don't want to make the other person feel

bad. So it

is common to hold back a positive emotion, but it is more generally used with negative

emotions. Now, in this case, if you just use it in a general context, you should have held

back. It means you shouldn't have shared your opinion. You shouldn't have shared your opinion,

your opinion. Now, notice you

Should have held back seeing this positively means. You shouldn't have shared your opinion

because if you didn't hold back, it means you did share your opinion. So we're in a

meeting and I say, you know what, everyone, I think this project is a terrible idea. Why

are we even doing this? Just now, I didn't hold back.

Back, I shared my opinion. Now, my coworker might see. Why did you see that Jennifer,

you should have held back, you shouldn't have shared your opinion.

So, Adele is saying that it's not like her ex-boyfriend to either, not share his emotions,

or not, share his opinion. So maybe they're talking, but he isn't really discussing his

new life with his new wife. His new house is new kids, things like that.

Let's continue on. I hate to turn up out of the blue. Okay, right here, we have a phrasal

verb to turn up and we have an idiom out of the blue out of the blue means unexpected

unexpected. Now she says, Uninvited, but it's almost implied with the expression out of

the blue because

If you turn up, which I should tell you what, this means I hate to turn up. This just means

arrived at a place. Now most likely Adele turned up at her ex-boyfriend's house. Knock,

knock,

Oh my God, it's my ex-girlfriend out of the blue. I wasn't expecting to see my ex-girlfriend

at my house, which I own with my new wife, right? So she arrived at a place, we don't

know what the place is, but most likely it's his house. It could also be his work, it could

be his favorite restaurant. And she knows, he goes to

Restaurant every Friday night and Adele turned up out of the blue. She arrived at that restaurant

because she knew he would be there. And it was unexpected. He did not know she was going

to come Uninvited, but I couldn't stay away. I couldn't fight it. So if you stay away,

it means you leave him alone. You don't turn up and you don't turn up out of the blue,

which means

Pected. So of course, she didn't say hey, I'm coming over if she texted him and said

I'm coming over that isn't out of the blue because it's expected. Now we use out of the

blue, a lot. You might say, my boss gave me a promotion out of the blue, which is a really

good thing, right? My boss gave me a promotion out of the blue

Ooh, which means I wasn't expecting it. I didn't know that he was giving promotions

to anyone. He didn't mention that out of the blue out of the blue, notice the pronunciation

of this, because we really combine, these two words to sound like OTA OTA out of the

blue out of the blue. My boss gave me a promotion out of the blue out of the blue.

All right, let's continue on. I had hoped you'd see my face and that you'd be reminded.

Okay, so Adele turns up, she arrives at his house and she had hoped that her boyfriend,

her ex-boyfriend would see her and be like, I miss you, I miss you. I'm so happy you're

here because you'd be reminded

Ended. So, when you're reminded of something, or someone you have memories of them, so maybe

her ex-boyfriend he sees her and then all of a sudden, these positive memories come

back to him.

That for me, it isn't over. So, by saying it isn't over Adele, is saying she still has

feelings for this man, she's still in love with him because we use this a lot in a romantic

context, it's over, it's over. If I say to you, this to you, what am I doing? It's over.

I'm ending our relationship. So, this is used to

And romantic relationship. It's over, it's over.

But it does. The thing for me it isn't over. I still love you, I still have feelings for

you.

Never mind. I'll find someone like you. So now the song although she's confessing emitting,

she still loves this man. Now, she's changing to saying, I'll find someone like you. So

I'll find another man who has the same characteristics personality. Maybe even appearance that you

have. I wish nothing.

But the best for you, don't forget me. I beg. So, when you beg, you're saying please, please

please. So this is a verb to bag. You might say,

I begged my boss to let me leave early today, but he said, no.

Children beg their parents all the time. Oh, please please. Can you buy me? This, can you

take me here? Can you do this? For me, children commonly beg adults. It's not, I guess as

common to beg, but still possible. I begged my boss. To let me leave. Notice you beg someone

to do something. That's the

Structure. So you might say my kids have been begging me to take them to Disney World. This

is something that I personally begged my dad to do over and over again as a child and he

never did take me to Disney World so it did not work. It was not successful for me but

who knows maybe it's successful for.

And then, so how do you beg? You just simply asked over and over again or you try to provide

different reasons, why? I'll remember you said, sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes

it hurts instead. So that's a very poetic thing to say. If it lasts, obviously it means

your you stay together as a couple if it hurts. It's

Because the relationship is over and he said, it's over, it's over, and then she repeats

it, sometimes it lasts, but sometimes it hurts. Instead, you know how the time flies? I think

a lot of students know this expression because they have it in their own native language

as well, but when time flies, this is an idiom to Simply say that time moves, very

Quickly time flies. So if you're working on a project and then all of a sudden you look

at your watch and it's five hours later. You can say, wow, time flies time flies only yesterday

was The Time Of Our Lives. We were born and raised in a summer haze. I don't know what

a summer haze is. To be honest bound.

By the surprise of our Glory Days.

I hate to turn up, okay, we already reviewed this, I hate to turn up out of the blue. Okay,

we reviewed this and then this is the chorus. So we reviewed this as well.

Here's a different part of the song. Nothing Compares. No worries or cares. Regrets and

mistakes. They are memories made.

Let's take a look at regrets. A regret is something that you wish you didn't do or say.

So something, you wish you

Didn't do or say, the important thing about regret is that it is a gerund verb. I regret

breaking up with him.

So oh sorry I regret the Jaron comes the verb that follows regret. So we have regret and

then the next verb that follows it is the German I regret and then our verb ing which

is our gerund verb. I regret breaking up with him. I regret

Quitting my job, I regret not quitting my job so this is something you wish you didn't

do or say.

In this case regret is used as a noun in the song because you can have regrets, which are

things. You wish you hadn't done or said I have a lot of regrets.

or hopefully I don't have a lot of regrets because you did and said exactly what you

wanted to do and say

who would have known how Bittersweet this would taste. When you describe something as

Bittersweet, it means that it's both negative and positive.

The - you can think of as sadness and the positive happiness. Here's an example sentence.

You can say getting a promotion was bittersweet. Now of course the happiness of a promotion

is the fact that it pays more money. You have a nicer job title, maybe you have some extra

perks, more.

Lady more interesting, work more fulfillment. Those are the positives, the happy part of

a promotion. What could be the - the sad part of the promotion? Maybe you're no longer working

with the people, you used to work with because the promotion requires you to go to another

part of the company, maybe you're working way longer hours.

And you're not spending as much time with your family and that's the negative part of

it. So, getting a promotion was bittersweet. This is a great expression to use as a gerund

statement, a gerund statement is a sentence that starts with ing. So we start with our

Jaren verb and you can use this to make more of a statement, a general statement.

You can try this and notice the expression is to be Bittersweet to be Bittersweet. And

here, of course, I have my verb to be conjugated in the past, simple. I could say getting a

promotion is Bittersweet. If I want to say that the emotions are still taking place now,

but maybe my promotion was last year, so I'm more talking about at that time of that transition.

Mission it was bittersweet. So maybe finishing University was bittersweet. Of course, it

was positive because you don't have to study anymore, but it's negative because of whatever

reason, so lots of things. So you can try an example in the Commons, and try it with

a gerund statement and don't forget to conjugate your verb to be.

Okay, and this is the same.

Our bag. This is the I'm just seeing if anything is different, but it looks like it is the

exact same thing, and then she just repeats it and that is the end of the song. So What

I recommend now is to click the link here. This PDF is available in the description and

it's available in the first comment. And you can click the link here and then you can listen

to the song with the lyrics and you can follow

along. You can listen to the pronunciation as well and hear all of your new vocabulary

in the song and share in the comments as well. What's your favorite new word from the song?

I'm excited to know. I hope you enjoyed this song.

It's an oldie. But a goodie, we're reviewing the song Yesterday by the Beatles. So let's

go through the lyrics together yesterday. All my troubles seemed so far away. Of course,

you'll need to notice that our keyword is yesterday. So notice all the verbs that are

going to be in the past simple because we're talking about yesterday, yesterday, all my

troubles,

My troubles. This is another way of saying problems or difficulties, all my problems.

All my difficulties seemed so far away. Of course, AR verb in the past, simple seemed

they seemed so far away. Now, it looks as though they're here to stay. Let's take a

look at this. It looks as though this is used to show

So probability you can think of it as 75% probable so 75% chance that something will

happen. So here the something is that his problems. His troubles are here to stay. Now

it looks as though is not the most commonly used. It sounds a little outdated.

A little formal perhaps and remember the Beatles are from quite a long time ago today, more

commonly we say it looks as do you know what it looks as if they're here to stay. So it

looks as though is grammatically correct but in my opinion, it's more common to say it

looks as if they're here to stay. They have the exact same meaning. Now,

To show you an example sentence. You could say it looks as though or as if it'll rain

it'll rain here. Notice I used a contraction, it'll it'll rain the full form. Is it will

rain? So again, I might look out my window, see some dark clouds and then say, oh, it

looks as if it'll rain I'm saying it's about 75% probability.

You can also use it looks like. And in this case you could say, it looks like rain a little

difference when we use it. Looks like generally what comes next is a noun. So, in this case,

rain is a noun. It looks like + noun is more common. When you use, it looks like, and then

when you use it,

Looks as though, as if we have a clause.

It looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday. Now, just quickly,

notice the preposition is always important to remember, which prepositions are used with

which words believe in. You believe in something, and a very nice thing to say to someone is,

I believe in you. So if your friend tells you, they want to be the next beetle.

They want to be an amazing, singer/songwriter. You can say, I believe in you, I Believe in

Your Vision, your goals, your dreams. I believe in you. It's a very nice thing to say. So

say that to someone today, it will make them very happy and I believe in you, all of you

and your ability to become affluent, confident English speaker, hopefully with

If my help, let's continue on now. I will also let you know that you can download the

free lesson PDF. So you don't need to worry about writing everything down because you

can download the free lesson PDF, that will have all the notes from the lesson. So you

can look in the description of this video or you can look in the chat in the first comment

pinned to find the lesson PDF.

Let's continue on suddenly I'm not half the man. I used to be suddenly we use this of

course for time suddenly there is not a lot of time when an action happens. So you can

say suddenly the phone rang suddenly my boss gave me a promotion so this expresses that

it

And very quickly and often unexpectedly as well. So quickly, and I'll put in Brackets

and unexpectedly. Suddenly, I'm not half the man. I used to be. Let's take a look at this

a very common past. Simple expression, I used to be a writer. For example, I used to be

a writer. This means I am

On a writer now but it was a routine action in the past. I used to, I used to notice my

pronunciation. You don't hear this D at all. I used to, I used to. I used to be a writer.

I used to work at a bank.

I used to live in Hawaii, that's not true. None of these are true actually. So you try

one leaving example sentence with, I used to now you could say, she used to there. Be

no difference in the conjugation, of course, because this is a pass simple verb and it's

the same for all subjects. So here I could put they used to work at

At a bank. She used to live in a hole in Hawaii. So try some example sentences. Remember the

spelling here. We have a needy but you don't hear it in pronunciation. Let's continue on.

There's a shadow hanging over me.

This is a very poetic line. Of course, a shadow is an area of Darkness caused by the absence

of light. Actually, you can see a little bit of a shadow right here in the corner. It's

a little bit of a dark spot, just the way, the light is reflecting against an object

on.

My wall that you can see, there's a little bit of a shadow. So the shadow hanging over

him, could be the image of this woman that he's talking about in this song and it's just

her image is just there with him. I'm not sure if that's what it means, it's very poetic,

but that's what a shadow is at least. So when you're taking a picture, you want to be mindful

of Shadows because you want to remove as many shot.

Whose house you can. Oh yesterday came suddenly notice here suddenly we have before we had

it at the beginning. Suddenly I'm not the I'm not half the man I used to be and here

we have it at the end, this adverb is quite flexible. You can put it at different parts.

Yesterday, came suddenly I said before suddenly the phone rang I could

I'd also say the phone rang suddenly suddenly so it's a flexible adverb. Of course our past

simple came because it's yesterday. So this is a great beginner song to practice the past.

Simple. Why she had to go? Remember, this is a song. This is actually not grammatically

correct though. Do you know why? What's the

Grammar error here. Why? She had to go, why she had to go? Well, we know this is a question

because there's a question mark here and it starts with Y, which is a question mark. When

we have a wh question in this form, we need. Why do you know how to correct this? Why did

she have to go? Why did she have to go now? Notice I change.

Had to have, why? Because my past simple is here, why did and then you use the base verb?

Because my past simple is already indicated with the auxiliary verb do conjugated in the

past. Simple? Why did she have to go as a song? It probably sounds better to say this

even though it is.

Optically, correct incorrect. So let me just write this. So you don't say this in your

speech grammatically incorrect and then this

Is grammatically. Correct? Why did she have to go?

I don't know, she wouldn't say she wouldn't say, wouldn't is our modal verb? In this case,

it's being used to

Suggest a unwillingness. For example she wouldn't help me. She wouldn't help me. She wouldn't

help me. There's an unwillingness, she could help me. She had the ability to help me but

she didn't she wouldn't help me. Now, important grammatically when you have a modal verb your

neck,

Next verb needs to be the base verb, not the infinitive modal + base verb. So we don't

say she wouldn't to say because that's the infinitive to say, she wouldn't to help me.

No, that's incorrect. Now is also possible. She would help me. She would help me. And

here is not, she would to help me because that's the infinitive. We don't want that

we want.

Our base verb, she would help me. She wouldn't help me. She refused to help me.

I don't know. She wouldn't say I said something wrong. Now, I long for yesterday. This is

a very poetic expression. Honestly, I don't think you'll use it too much in your speech,

but it is a very nice, poetic expression and you may hear it in other songs, movies TV

and most likely poetry as well.

I long for when you long for something you really, really, really want it. There's a

strong desire for that. You might say, I long for summer, for example, right now, it's winter,

it's very cold. I long for summer, I long to see the trees in bloom.

The trees in bloom, the Flowers In Bloom, notice because I have a verb here, I use the

infinitive, I long to see the trees in bloom, I long for summer summer is a noun. So we

use for + noun. Let me write this for + noun and then you use infinitive if you're going

to

use a verb. So long + infinitive and this is long + 4 + noun. Now, because long is a

verb, you do need to conjugate it, she Longs for Summer, She longed for summer, that would

be in the past. Simple, of course, she Longs for summer. I long to see the trees in bloom.

It sounds

It's very poetic honestly I probably wouldn't say that because it does sound very poetic.

I probably wouldn't say it to my friends but it sounds beautiful to me. So why don't you

try that in the comments below? Try sharing something that you long for or you can use

a hypothetical Sheehy, we long for as well.

Let's continue on yesterday. Love was such an easy game to play. Of course, our verb

to be in the past, simple conjugated with our subject, which is love. That's why. It's

was now, I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday? Again, I believe in

you, I believe.

Leave in your abilities. I believe, in your talent. You got this. Let's continue on. Okay,

this is back to the course. So I don't think there's anything new here why she had to go.

We already talked about this.

This is the same as before and that's the end of the song. So it's a simple song but

it's a great reminder of the past simple because it's about yesterday and there's some very

nice expressions in this song as well. So now what I recommend is that you listen to

the song. So the link to listen to the song and follow, along with the lyrics, is in the

free lesson, PDF that you can download this exact.

F and you can listen to this song. I hope you enjoyed this lyric review.

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.

Old. We were good. We were gold. I said, I wasn't going to sing. Notice the verb tense

here? We were good. What verb tenses? This 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 a breakup. A breakup, a breakup is, when a couple a romantic couple is together

And they break up and they're no longer together. That's a breakup. So you could say this is

a breakup song. So here I gave you some examples. This is a song about a breakup. This is our

now and here we're no longer together. We broke up, this is the phrasal verb break up

and this is the past form. 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 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. Tell 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.

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 wanna is a reduction, it's the

word want to but when you're singing is a lot easier to say

I didn't wanna then 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 didn't want to lie. I'm

not sure what they're lying about Ally is of course when you do not tell the truth.

Ruth 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 noun. 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 remembered now the song goes into the chorus

and although this is a breakup song, the song becomes more optimistic, more upbeat and 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 in the sand. I can talk

to myself for hours but that was 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 buy myself flowers write my name in the sand because normally

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 around it. So she's saying, I can write my name in

this and talk to myself for hours. This is a good time reference here for hours. This

is a non specific amount of time but it sounds like a long time.

For example, we worked on the project 4 hours, 4 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 for hours, it sounds like a long period of time now.

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

it's in the present, perfect continuous. Because it shows that the actions 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 say things you

don't understand. I can take myself dancing. Notice this sentence structure, you can

I think 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 leasing, I can take myself dancing.

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

Text, of course, for example, I took my mom. So I went, I got my mom and then together,

we went to the doctor's appointment. I took my mom to her, doctors appointment, we waited

for 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 can 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 seeing better than you, better

than you better than you can.

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 repeats 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.

Al's 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 man.

Matches the Roses, the 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. Hmm. Does the paint match

the chair? Does the pillow match the chair, for example. OK, 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

Miley 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

I would say remorse. It's a deeper feeling. It's a more painful feeling and also there's

always a wrongdoing 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 is just a decision that you made. So there are 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 got 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 it's when

they're in an argument or a disagreement ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. 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 friend. So when you get into a disagreement and you're

mad at each other, you can say, we're fighting. Here are two examples sentences, my sister,

and I fight a lot, 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

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. Let's start by reviewing the name

of the song, which is antihero antihero. And as a hero is, someone who does not have traditional

heroic qualities. So notice here heroic this

Is an adjective to describe the qualities. You can also describe a person as heroic,

so you could say, firefighters people, who fight fires firefighters are very heroic,

so we're using it as an adjective. So Anti Hero is someone who does not have these traditional

heroic qualities, like courage. But even though they don't have those

Qualities. There's still admired. Now you probably hear about anti-heroes more in movies,

plays books. In this case song, lyrics thinking of movies. The first movie that came to my

mind is the movie, Deadpool. If you haven't seen the movie Deadpool, I highly recommend

it because it's hilarious. And this character is a classic example of an antihero.

So now let's continue on with the rest of the lyrics. Now remember this is a song so

it's not going to sound the same just reading it but I am not going to sing this for you.

But I have selected some of the most common expressions and idioms that I think you might

not know and will be useful for you to have in your vocabulary. So we're just going to

focus on these specific expressions.

That I've highlighted and after I explained everything, I've included the link to where

you can listen to the song but with the lyrics as well. So you can follow along with the

lyrics. So you can click this link after you've watched the lesson, Okay? So

This line is when mine depression works, the graveyard shift. So here, what I have highlighted

to work, the graveyard shift, the graveyard shift. This is actually a time period, and

it's a time period at work that begins late at night. So usually around midnight and ends

early in the morning. So you might work from 12:00.

Midnight to 6 a.m. And there are many people who would have to work the graveyard shift,

such as doctors, nurses, police. And firefighters my earlier example, and of course, many others

as well. What about you, have you ever worked? The graveyard shift, share in the comments

below. As an example sentence, you could say, I'm exhausted.

Costed from working, the graveyard shift, all week. So, that's what it means. Now, she's

saying my depression. So, she's saying, her depression starts affecting her around midnight,

and it lasts all night into the morning. So that's a very negative thing because obviously,

you're not going to sleep very well, if your depression works, the grave night shift, right?

So, let's go to our next sentence. She says, all of the people, I've ghosted stand there

in the room. Now, I just want to point out as we're going through this song. Just remember,

this is a song, Taylor Swift wrote it. And the song is kind of like a dream. She had

the lyrics, don't really make. A lot of sense in terms of telling a story. It's like if

you try to tell

One about your dream and it probably wouldn't make a lot of sense. So just keep that in

mind as we're reviewing the lyrics, all of the people, I've ghosted, have you heard this

expression to ghost someone? I've been ghosted. I ghosted him. I ghosted, her, this is a new

expression that has only been used, probably for the last 5 to 10 years, when you go,

Oh, someone you suddenly disappear from that person's life. But you don't tell the person

that you're ending the relationship, and the relationship could be a romantic relationship,

but it could also be a friendship as well. So, let's say you started a new friendship

with someone and you hung out, three or four times you went to the movies.

He's, you got coffee, you went out for dinner together and then all of a sudden that person

doesn't talk to you anymore. You send them a message. Hey do you want to get together

this weekend? No reply, you send them another message. Hey, did you get my last message?

No reply that person. Just ghosted. You so I wrote the definition here for you and let

me give you another example.

Example, sentence, we went out on three dates but then she ghosted me. She just stopped

replying to my messages. Stop sending me messages and she didn't tell me or explain why the

next sentence is I should not be left to my own devices. This is an idiom to leave, someone

to their own devices.

Notice the plural its devices plural devices and this is to allow someone to make their

own decisions about what to do. So by saying I should not be left to my own devices. Taylor

Swift is saying that she should not be allowed to make her own decisions about what to do.

Here is another example

Example sentence, my boss never leaves me to my own devices, so my boss doesn't allow

me to make my own decisions. Of course, in this context, is about a workplace decisions,

right? So it's a very common expression, more so used in a business context, but as you

can see, with Taylor Swift, you can use it in a general context as well. Let's continue

on with our lyrics. They come with

Races and vices well that rhymes prices vases. What does vice mean? Well, a vice is a noun

and it simply means a bad habit. So remember her line before is that she shouldn't be left

to her own devices. She shouldn't be able to make her own decisions if she does. Well

then she has a lot of bad habits that will influence her decision. So that

that could be a reason why she shouldn't be left to her own devices. Now, we use those

quite a lot with bad habits, that aren't that bad of Habits Like Chocolate. A lot of people

will say, chocolate is my main Vice in life, which is saying, you know, you shouldn't eat

so much chocolate, but you do anyway, it's a bad habit of yours. So you can use this

with more serious vices like drugs and alcohol.

But we also use it with more light vices, like chocolate or McDonald's, or things like

that, maybe listening to Too Much. Taylor Swift is your Vice because you should be working

and not listening to Taylor Swift. Okay. Let's continue on. So remember, we're skipping quite

a lot because we're just focusing on specific words that I don't think you'll understand.

And because you got tired of my scheming now, what does it mean to scheme when you scheme?

It's when you make plans? But those plans are secret and the purpose of those plans

is to deceive others deceive. Simply means. You want them to believe or do something that

isn't true, or isn't good for them. So, it's a negative thing to scheme.

Hmm, to scheme. How can we trick someone? How can we do something that will benefit

us, but not them. Here's an example for you. My kids have been scheming to avoid chores.

So imagine your kids are like, how can we tell Mom that? We don't need to clean the

bathroom, or how can we get Dad to do the dishes for us? That's scheming and then they

talk back and forth to each.

Each other. We can tell them, we have homework to do but then they don't actually have homework.

It's just the scheme, right? So of course this is more of a light-hearted example but

it can be used in a more negative way as well you can scheme to try to cheat or steal for

example. So cuz you got tired of my scheming so someone whoever the you is was tired of

Taylor Swift. Always

These plans to deceive that person scheming and it makes sense that the person would get

tired of it, not want her to do that. Okay? Then the chorus, the chorus is pretty simple.

There's just one word that I'll point out, I'll stare directly at the Sun but never in

the mirror. So to stare, this is the same as look. So right now I'm looking here but

notice when I look

look, you know, sometimes my eyes will move a little bit or I'll blink my eyes but when

you stare

it's really intense and I look directly at you and I don't blink, I'm just staring. So

it can be very intimidating when you stare at someone and it's considered rude or impolite

in North American culture at least to stare but in this example staring directly at the

sun which is actually something you should not do because it can hurt your eyes. You

Shouldn't stare at the Sun. So let me leave that as your example sentence, you shouldn't

stare at the sun because you could hurt your eyes. So don't take that advice from Taylor

Swift but she never stairs in the mirror so she doesn't look at herself for a long period

of time. Intensely,

In the mirror. So I left the definition of stare for you as well. Now, let's continue

on. It must be exhausting, always rooting for the anti-hero, you know what anti-hero

is. So, let's talk about the verb to root and notice you root for someone, or you can

root for something as well. Here's the definition, when you root for someone, you want that,

Then or team to win or to achieve something specific in the sense of a promotion or a

job. They win that promotion, they win that job. So you can think of it really as winning

we do use this a lot in sports so let's say it was the World Cup and we had France and

Argentina in the playoffs, right? So you would ask someone who are you rooting for

Or who are you rooting for? Which team are you? Rooting for. You're asking them. Who

do you want to win? Are you rooting for France? Or are you rooting for Argentina? Why are

you rooting for France? And then you can explain why. Now, see him. Let's say there's two people

up for a job promotion, Fred, and Nancy, are you rooting for fried? Or are you rooting

for Nancy?

Or it could be in a political context. You have two candidates. Are you rooting for candidate

X or candidate why? So, let me just leave that example sentence with sports, because

that is probably the most common time you'll use it. Are you rooting for friends or Argentina?

And then whoever you're rooting for is the person or

Team, you want to win, okay, it must be exhausting. Always rooting for the anti-hero. So you want

the entity hero to win? Remember, I highly recommend you listen to the song with the

lyrics and then you can see all this new vocabulary and and you can listen to the song. Did you

know that this is the most popular song according to the chart?

Right now at the time of this recording, that's why I chose it, okay? And remember I said

it seems like the lyrics don't really make. A lot of sense, they don't tell a story, it's

more. Like she's talking about her dream. Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy

baby. Like, that's something you might have dreamt about last night, right? So that's

why I'm not going through it, word for word and I'm focusing on

Specific words, did you hear my covert narcissism? I disguise as altruism. I'll explain. Some

other words here because you might be wondering about covert, covert simply means secret,

secret or hidden. This is used a lot in a military context there on a covert Mission.

So it's a mission that secret The General.

Like has no knowledge of it. They're on a covert Mission. They're working on a covert

project, for example. So is used more in military, but it could also be used at work. You could

be working on a covert project within your company. Now, let's talk about narcissism

and altruism narcissism is having too much self interest interest in your own appearance,

or it could also be

Your abilities as well. And covert narcissism is. I'm trying to hide it. I'm trying to keep

this interest in myself, secret or hidden from others. Altruism on the other hand is

more of the opposite of narcissism because altruistic people are more concerned about

others, not themselves and it's that willingness to do things for others, even if it means

sacrificing.

Your own needs. That's altruism. Now, let's talk about disguise when you disguise something,

you trying to hide it and in this case, it's a feeling or an emotion. But we also try.

You can try to disguise yourself. I could try to disguise Myself by wearing, oh, a black

wig. So I could have black hair. Instead of my normal hair, I could wear glasses.

Yes and I could wear different clothing so I don't look like myself. Nobody would recognize

me. If they saw me on the street, for example, you so you can disguise yourself but in this

case she's talking about disguising, an emotion. So trying to hide that emotion with another

emotion. So she's trying to hide her narcissism which is interest in herself her

It narcissism as altruism interest in other people. So it's a very interesting lyric to

be honest. It's very well written. Let's continue on. Okay our chorus again. So remember we

saw stare and routing and we already discussed that. Now let's take a look at daughter-in-law

again. This is what caused me to say. This is more like her talking

Thing about her dream because when I first saw this, I was really confused because Taylor

Swift cannot have a daughter-in-law. She's too young to have a daughter-in-law because

a daughter-in-law is the woman who is married to your son or daughter. So if Taylor Swift

had a daughter-in-law Taylor Swift would have to have a child, a son or a daughter, but

that child would have to

You old enough to be married. And then the person her child, Mary's is either her daughter-in-law

for a woman or son-in-law for a man. Now obviously that's not possible, but if you're in your

mid-to-late 40s or 50s 60s, then you could definitely have a daughter-in-law but you

possibly have a mother

ER and law a mother-in-law is the mother of your husband or wife. So, in the song she

says, I have this dream. My daughter-in-law kills me for the money. She thinks I left

them in the will, okay. That sounds like a common dream that one could have. Now the

will a, will is a legal document.

And it outlines how your assets. Now, your assets could be your money, your house, your

car, or any other possessions will be distributed, which means given to other people after you

die. Now, I wonder what this is in your native language. Do you use the terminology will

just translated in your native language? I wonder, let me know in the comments. I'm curious

about that.

Okay, she thinks she the daughter-in-law thinks I left them in the will. That's funny.

All right, so it's the chorus again. And oh that's it. So now I want you to click this

link which you can find in the description of this video. Click this link and watch the

song with the lyrics and I hope you enjoy it. And did you enjoy this lesson? This is

the first lesson I've ever done reviewing a song and the lyrics of a song. So did you

like this? Would you like

me to review more song, lyrics, let me know in the comments below. Amazing job, reviewing

all four songs now. Keep expanding your vocabulary with this lesson. I know you'll love it and

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