November Rain

• By: Guns N' Roses
• Album: Use Your Illusion I

Lyrics:

Vocabulary in this song:

Vocabulary	Meanings
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - an intense feeling of affection verb - to feel affection for
eyes /aɪz/ A1	noun - organs of sight
hold /hoʊld/ A2	verb - to grasp or support with one's hands
hearts /hɑːrts/ A2	noun - organ that pumps blood
change /tʃeɪndʒ/ A2	verb - to become different noun - the act or instance of making or becoming different.
cold /koʊld/ A2	adjective - low temperature
rain /reɪn/ A1	noun - water falling from the sky
time /taɪm/ A1	noun - duration
pain /peɪn/ B1	noun - physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury
sure /ʃʊr/ A2	adjective - confident
rest /rest/ A2	verb - to cease work or movement in order to relax, refresh oneself, or recover strength
heal /hiːl/ B2	verb - to become sound or healthy again
broken /ˈbroʊkən/ B1	adjective - having been fractured or damaged
fears /fɪrz/ B1	noun - an unpleasant emotion caused by the perception of danger, pain, or threat
blame /bleɪm/ B2	verb - assign responsibility for a fault or wrong noun - responsibility for a fault or wrong
darkness /ˈdɑːrknəs/ B2	noun - the state of being dark
somebody /ˈsʌmbədi/ A1	noun - an important person

Grammar:

• When I look into your eyes, I can see a love restrained.

  ➔ Modal verb 'can' for ability/possibility; Past participle 'restrained' used as an adjective.

  ➔ Here, 'can' expresses the ability to perceive something, and 'restrained' describes the state of love, indicating it's held back or controlled. The past participle is functioning as an adjective modifying 'love'.

• Nothin' lasts forever, and we both know hearts can change.

  ➔ Use of indefinite pronoun 'Nothin''; Modal verb 'can' expressing possibility

  ➔ 'Nothin'' is used informally as a contraction of 'nothing'. 'Can change' expresses the possibility that hearts might not remain constant.

• And it's hard to hold a candle in the cold November rain.

  ➔ Use of 'it' as a dummy subject; 'to hold' as infinitive of purpose.

  ➔ 'It' is used as a placeholder subject because the real subject ('to hold a candle') is placed later in the sentence. 'To hold' functions as the purpose of why it's hard.

• We've been through this such a long long time, just tryin' to kill the pain.

  ➔ Present perfect continuous tense ('We've been through'); use of 'such' as an intensifier.

  ➔ The present perfect continuous indicates an action that started in the past and continues to the present. 'Such a long long time' emphasizes the duration of the experience.

• If we could take the time to lay it on the line, I could rest my head.

  ➔ Second conditional ('If' + past simple, 'could' + infinitive); phrasal verb 'lay it on the line'

  ➔ This sentence expresses a hypothetical situation. 'Lay it on the line' means to be honest and direct. 'Could' indicates a conditional possibility.

• Don't you know you need some time all alone?

  ➔ Tag question with negative auxiliary verb and pronoun ('Don't you know'); need + noun phrase + adjective

  ➔ The tag question 'Don't you know' is used to seek confirmation or agreement. 'Need some time all alone' expresses a requirement for solitude and emphasizes the adjective 'alone'.

• When there's no one left to blame.

  ➔ Existential 'there' followed by the verb 'to be'; Reduced relative clause ('to blame' modifying 'no one')

  ➔ 'There's' introduces the existence of 'no one left'. 'To blame' acts as a reduced relative clause, meaning 'no one who is left to blame'.