It´s not easy
Lyrics:
[English]
Uuuhhh! yeaahh haahh ahh
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Lord of mercy!
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I remember the day I called mama on the telephone
I told her mama I'm getting married, I could hear her voice
On the other side of the telephone, she was smiling
And she asked me a question that I proudly answered
She said, "Son did you take time to know her?"
I said mama she's the best but today it hurts me so
To go back to mama and say mama I'm getting divorced
Oh I'm getting divorced
This choice I made didn't work out
The way I thought it would
This choice I made. It hurts me so mama,
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This choice i made, didnt work out the way i thought it would, this choice of mine oh!
Mama said me.
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it, you'll be happy again. 2x
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I remember in church, when the preacher man read the scriptures
You looked so beautiful, so beautiful and so innocent
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I did not know that behind that beauty
Lies the true colors that will destroy me in the near future
This choice I made didn't work out to be what i thought it be
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Oh!, mama
This choice i made didnt work out the way i thought it would now am hurting.
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I remember when I held you
By the hand preacher man read the scriptures
Putting words in your mouth.
Maybe what the preacher man said
Was not something that was within you.
Now I know what they mean when they say
"Beautiful woman is another man's play thing"
Oh! Lord! I'm hurting now
This choice I made didn't work out
The way I thought it would, this choice of mine oh!
Mama said to me
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it, you'll be happy again.
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Vocabulary in this song:
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remember /rɪˈmembər/ A2 |
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hear /hɪr/ A1 |
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voice /vɔɪs/ A2 |
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smiling /ˈsmaɪlɪŋ/ A2 |
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proudly /ˈpraʊdlɪ/ B2 |
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hurt /hɜːrt/ A2 |
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divorced /dɪˈvɔːrst/ B2 |
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choice /tʃɔɪs/ B1 |
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easy /ˈiːzi/ A1 |
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understand /ˌʌndərˈstænd/ B1 |
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happy /ˈhæpi/ A1 |
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church /tʃɜːrtʃ/ A2 |
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scriptures /ˈskrɪptʃərz/ B2 |
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beautiful /ˈbjuːtɪfl/ A2 |
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innocent /ˈɪnəsnt/ B1 |
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beauty /ˈbjuːti/ B1 |
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destroy /dɪˈstrɔɪ/ B2 |
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true /truː/ A1 |
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future /ˈfjuːtʃər/ A2 |
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Grammar:
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I remember the day I called mama on the telephone
➔ Relative clause with omitted relative pronoun.
➔ The complete sentence would be: "I remember the day *that* I called mama..." The relative pronoun "that" can be omitted when it is the object of the relative clause.
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I said mama she's the best but today it hurts me so To go back to mama and say mama I'm getting divorced
➔ Use of 'so' as an intensifier. Use of infinitive of purpose 'to go back'
➔ "it hurts me *so*" - 'so' intensifies the feeling of hurt. "*To go back* to mama" - infinitive shows the reason for the hurt, which is the action of going back.
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This choice I made didn't work out The way I thought it would
➔ Relative clause with omitted relative pronoun; conditional type 3 in the past (mixed with past simple)
➔ "This choice *that* I made..." - omitted relative pronoun. "The way I thought it *would*" - Implies 'would work out', which didn't happen.
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It's not easy to understand it son But I hope you'll make it, you'll be happy again.
➔ Use of 'it' as a dummy subject; use of 'make it' as an idiom.
➔ "*It*'s not easy *to understand it*" - 'it' is a dummy subject, and the true subject is 'to understand it'. "You'll *make it*" - means you'll succeed, overcome the difficulties.
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I did not know that behind that beauty Lies the true colors that will destroy me in the near future
➔ Inversion after a negative adverbial ('behind that beauty').
➔ Normally, the sentence would be: "The true colors lie behind that beauty." But when starting the sentence with the adverbial phrase "behind that beauty," we invert the subject and verb for emphasis.
