– English Lyrics

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

-Thank you for doing that opening for us.

I appreciate it. That was a Dido song.

-Yes, and I´ve sang that song before

for the Happy Hippie Foundation

when I did the "Backyard Sessions."

That was a song that I performed.

Because I love that there is no love without freedom.

And I think about that when these tragic events happen.

What is music if we can´t go see our favorite artists perform

because we´re scared of violence

or we´re scared of losing someone that we love

to go to a concert or to go see a film?

And I think that right now,

you know, we´re supposed to be the land of the free,

but we can´t have freedom if we´re constantly living in fear.

So I think never bow down to bullies.

That´s what my parents always said.

And to stand up for what´s right.

And I think just constantly share hope

instead of encouraging any more fear, you know?

-Yeah, I agree.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Well said. Thank you.

Uh, I listened to the album this weekend.

I had it streaming on Spotify.

And I love it so much.

-Thank you so much. -It´s so good.

Last time you were here,

we talked about how you were recording --

I want to say frogs or birds.

-Yes, that happens a lot.

-And I was like, "Oh, that´s cool,

but you´ll never use any of that."

-And I did. -It´s in the first track.

-Yes, the first track. -Yeah.

The opening is a river that runs through my house.

And there´s a frog, Killer Angel Baby.

And he´s now had other little mini-frogs,

so that´s like a whole symphony of an entire family,

an evolution of a family that I got to witness and record

without getting any sign-off or permission to use.

So I might be the first person ever to be sued by a frog.

-Yeah, that is true. Yes. I know his attorney.

And you´re in for it. Yeah. He has a case.

-Yeah. -Mr. Baby has a case.

-Yes, exactly.

-Killer Angel Baby. Yeah. Exactly.

That came on, and I go --

And I was listening to just this beautiful sound,

and then the song comes on, and it kicks in.

And it´s just you. And it´s perfect.

And it´s poppy. And it´s fun.

And it´s, ah, well-produced.

-Thank you. -Well-written.

"Younger Now." Can you explain what that means?

Like, why "Younger Now"? Why do you feel younger now?

Well, I wrote this song, because one of the first lyrics is,

"Even though it´s not who I am,

I´m not afraid of who I used to be."

And I think there´s so many times, maybe in everyone´s life,

but I know in my life where you start to run

from who you´ve been, ´cause you´re like,

"I just don´t want to be that anymore. I´m not that anymore."

But now as I´m getting older,

I´m getting younger in the way that I embrace

who I used to be a lot more than trying to run from it.

And I wrote this song because I was dressed as a reindeer,

as I would be -- it was Christmas --

and I had on the blinking earrings and the antlers.

I was a full-on reindeer.

And my mom goes, "When did you go back to being an 8-year-old?"

And I said, "Well, I feel younger now.

I kind of feel like a 8-year-old.

I feel like I don´t have anything to prove.

And I don´t feel like I need to be anything but who I am.

And it´s [bleep] Christmas, Mom!

And I´m dressed as a reindeer! It´s not that weird!"

-Up to that point, it was a Hallmark card.

Then it went off the rails a little bit.

It wasn´t, like, April. It was Christmas.

-Yeah. -Yeah.

[ Laughter ]

-You have a great family.

I´ve met every member of your family.

Different occasions, every now and then, you´ll bring them.

They´re going to be on the show tomorrow.

-Yeah, yeah. -We´re gonna have a fun game.

-Yeah, my mom -- I´m trying to get her

to start being my tambourine player.

She´s got a sick rhythm.

So I´m trying to get my whole family to just tour together

and be together all the time

´cause it´s so great, making music with all of them.

-You´ll be like the Osmonds? -Exactly.

-But my mom, like -- -The Brady Bunch?

-She left to actually go see Noah sing,

but she´s, like, tone-deaf.

She´s going to see this, obviously,

but she can´t carry, really, a note.

So we´re putting Mom on tambo basically.

Everybody can handle the tambourine.

-My mom can sing, like, just sing with everybody,

but she can´t, like, really, really sing.

And I remember when headphones first were invented.

This is how old I am. That was a big deal.

Headphones, like, that you can buy, in your house,

and we had her sing something.

And it was awful.

But she didn´t realize that we couldn´t hear the music.

-Right.

-So it was just her with the headset on.

I want to say it was --

Was it Rita Coolidge who sang

"Your Love is Lifting Me Higher"?

-Yeah. -And so she --

And her headphones are like --

♫ Buh-bum-bum, buh-bum-bum, buh-bum-bum, bum-bum ♫

And she´s like -- And it´s just completely silent in our house.

-We should go to one of those raves like that.

You know they have raves --

Do you want to go to a rave with me after this?

Are you scared?

[ Cheers and applause ]

-No. -Anybody? Anybody?

-I was just talking about how I´m hanging with my mom.

I hang out with my mom, and we wear headphones.

-They have these raves where all you do is listen to headphones,

so it´s like a silent dance party.

But one time, I made the mistake of taking them off.

And it just felt like the worst decision.

I´ve made a lot of bad ones. But that one was really bad.

Don´t ever take the headphones off.

-You question every decision that got you to that point.

-They hang from the ceiling, right?

-Yeah, and then you just jam,

and you´re thinking you´re at the best club, best DJ ever,

but really you´re just in silence.

-No. That´s too weird for me.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
appreciate /əˈpriːʃieɪt/ B1	verb - to recognize the full worth of something
tragic /ˈtrædʒɪk/ B2	adjective - causing or involving great suffering and distress
violence /ˈvaɪələns/ B2	noun - behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something
freedom /ˈfriːdəm/ B1	noun - the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance
bullies /ˈbʊliːz/ B1	noun - a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those weaker than themselves.
constantly /ˈkɒnstəntli/ B1	adverb - continuously; all the time
encourage /ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒ/ B1	verb - to give support, confidence, or hope to someone
recording /rɪˈkɔːrdɪŋ/ B1	noun - the process of storing sounds or images
symphony /ˈsɪmfəni/ B2	noun - an elaborate musical composition for full orchestra, typically in four movements.
permission /pəˈmɪʃən/ B1	noun - the consent to do something
perfect /ˈpɜːfekt/ B1	adjective - having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be.
produced /prəˈdjuːst/ B1	verb - to create or make something
embrace /ɪmˈbreɪs/ B2	verb - to accept or support (a belief, theory, or change)
prove /pruːv/ B1	verb - demonstrate the truth or existence of (something) by evidence or argument.
witness /ˈwɪtnəs/ B2	verb - to see (something) happen, typically involving an accident or crime.
sued /suːd/ B2	verb - to take legal action against (someone) in a court of law.
attorney /əˈtɜːni/ B2	noun - a lawyer

Key Grammar Structures

• Because I love that there is no love without freedom.

  ➔ Subjunctive mood (implied) - expressing a general truth or belief.

  ➔ The sentence expresses a philosophical belief. The phrase 'no love without freedom' functions as a noun clause acting as the object of the verb 'love'. The use of 'is' implies a general truth.

• And I think about that when these tragic events happen.

  ➔ Use of 'when' as a subordinating conjunction introducing a time clause.

  ➔ The sentence shows a causal relationship. The speaker reflects on the idea of freedom in response to 'tragic events'. 'When' connects the thought process to the occurrence of these events.

• I think that right now, you know, we’re supposed to be the land of the free, but we can’t have freedom if we’re constantly living in fear.

  ➔ Use of 'supposed to' to express obligation or expectation; conditional sentence (if clause).

  ➔ The sentence contrasts an ideal ('land of the free') with a current reality (living in fear). 'Supposed to' highlights the discrepancy. The 'if' clause implies that freedom is conditional on the absence of fear.