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(gentle music) 00:10
♪ Hey ♪ 00:15
♪ Tale as old as time ♪ 00:23
♪ True as it can be ♪ 00:29
♪ Barely even friends ♪ 00:35
♪ Then somebody bends ♪ 00:38
♪ Unexpectedly ♪ 00:41
♪ Just a little change ♪ 00:47
♪ Small to say the least ♪ 00:53
♪ Both a little scared ♪ 00:56
♪ Neither one prepared ♪ 00:59
♪ Beauty and the Beast ♪ 01:02
♪ Ever just the same ♪ 01:08
♪ Ever a surprise ♪ 01:13
♪ Ever as before ♪ 01:19
♪ Ever just as sure ♪ 01:22
♪ As the sun will rise ♪ 01:25
♪ Oh whoa ♪ 01:30
♪ Hey ♪ 01:37
♪ Whoa ♪ 01:43
♪ Ooh ♪ 01:46
♪ Oh oh ♪ 01:53
♪ Ever just the same ♪ 01:55
♪ And ever a surprise, yeah ♪ 02:01
♪ Ever as before ♪ 02:07
♪ And ever just as sure ♪ 02:09
♪ As the sun will rise ♪ 02:12
♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ 02:17
♪ Tale as old as time ♪ 02:22
♪ Tune as old as song ♪ 02:28
♪ Bittersweet and strange ♪ 02:34
♪ Finding you can change ♪ 02:37
♪ Learning you were wrong ♪ 02:40
♪ Certain as the sun ♪ 02:46
♪ Certain as the sun ♪ 02:49
♪ Rising in the east ♪ 02:52
♪ Tale as old as time ♪ 02:56
♪ Song as old as rhyme ♪ 02:58
♪ Beauty and the Beast ♪ 03:01
♪ Tale as old as time ♪ 03:07
♪ Song as old as rhyme ♪ 03:09
♪ Beauty and the Beast ♪ 03:12
♪ Whoa ♪ 03:22
♪ Beauty and the Beast ♪ 03:33
♪ Beauty and the Beast ♪ 03:41

Beauty and the Beast – English Lyrics

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Lyrics & Translation

[English]

(gentle music)

♪ Hey ♪

♪ Tale as old as time ♪

♪ True as it can be ♪

♪ Barely even friends ♪

♪ Then somebody bends ♪

♪ Unexpectedly ♪

♪ Just a little change ♪

♪ Small to say the least ♪

♪ Both a little scared ♪

♪ Neither one prepared ♪

♪ Beauty and the Beast ♪

♪ Ever just the same ♪

♪ Ever a surprise ♪

♪ Ever as before ♪

♪ Ever just as sure ♪

♪ As the sun will rise ♪

♪ Oh whoa ♪

♪ Hey ♪

♪ Whoa ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Oh oh ♪

♪ Ever just the same ♪

♪ And ever a surprise, yeah ♪

♪ Ever as before ♪

♪ And ever just as sure ♪

♪ As the sun will rise ♪

♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪

♪ Tale as old as time ♪

♪ Tune as old as song ♪

♪ Bittersweet and strange ♪

♪ Finding you can change ♪

♪ Learning you were wrong ♪

♪ Certain as the sun ♪

♪ Certain as the sun ♪

♪ Rising in the east ♪

♪ Tale as old as time ♪

♪ Song as old as rhyme ♪

♪ Beauty and the Beast ♪

♪ Tale as old as time ♪

♪ Song as old as rhyme ♪

♪ Beauty and the Beast ♪

♪ Whoa ♪

♪ Beauty and the Beast ♪

♪ Beauty and the Beast ♪

Key Vocabulary

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Vocabulary Meanings

tale

/teɪl/

B1
  • noun
  • - a story, typically a traditional one

time

/taɪm/

A1
  • noun
  • - the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole

true

/truː/

A2
  • adjective
  • - in accordance with fact or reality

friends

/frendz/

A1
  • noun
  • - a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection

bends

/bendz/

B1
  • verb
  • - shape or force (something straight) into a curve or angle.

change

/tʃeɪndʒ/

A1
  • noun
  • - the act or instance of making or becoming different
  • verb
  • - make or become different

scared

/skeərd/

A2
  • adjective
  • - afraid; frightened

beauty

/ˈbjuːti/

B1
  • noun
  • - the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind

beast

/biːst/

B1
  • noun
  • - an animal, especially a large or dangerous four-footed one

surprise

/sərˈpraɪz/

B1
  • noun
  • - an unexpected or astonishing event, fact, or thing
  • verb
  • - cause (someone) to feel surprised

sure

/ʃʊər/

A2
  • adjective
  • - confident in what one thinks or knows; having no doubt that one is right

sun

/sʌn/

A1
  • noun
  • - the star that provides light and heat to Earth

rise

/raɪz/

A2
  • verb
  • - to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling position
  • noun
  • - an increase in size, amount, number, or level

tune

/tjuːn/

B1
  • noun
  • - a melody, especially one that characterizes a particular piece of music

song

/sɔːŋ/

A1
  • noun
  • - a short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung

strange

/streɪndʒ/

A2
  • adjective
  • - unusual or surprising; difficult to understand or explain

wrong

/rɔːŋ/

A1
  • adjective
  • - not correct or true; incorrect

east

/iːst/

A1
  • noun
  • - the direction toward the point of sunrise at the equinoxes, on the left-hand side of a person facing north

rhyme

/raɪm/

B1
  • noun
  • - correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.

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