Weida "Gemini Perspective"
The creation of songs is generally regarded as a mode of performing arts, a kind of leisure and entertainment for the public!
Personally, I think that songs are not just performance arts or entertainment, and most songs are works with multi-layered cultural connotations. Songs have both poetic charm and touching rhythms, which express the author's views and emotions, and some lyrics will have a complete story that reflects the values and phenomena of contemporary society. Because of such a rich connotation, listening to and singing nostalgic English songs is the most suitable tool for me to learn about the culture of Western countries and learn their language.
This column "Appreciation of Good Songs, Listening to Songs to Learn English" hopes to share nostalgic English old songs, so that friends who want to improve their English skills can have an easier channel to learn English. By sharing the author's inspiration when writing the song and the background of the time at that time, this is equivalent to providing a "context" for learning English, so as to improve English thinking> improve flexible understanding of English> and improve English expression skills.
Most of the nostalgic English songs shared in "Gemini Perspective" are slower and easy to master, and some of them have story content, with simple and beautiful words and correct grammar. It is well worth using as a reference for learning English. At the back of each song, learning points are also integrated, and some noteworthy points are given to the friends to wake up.
Singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot wrote the song "Carefree Highway" in 1974, which reached the top 10 of the year's pop charts.
According to the author, the inspiration for the song came from a passage he passed by on Interstate 74 "Carefree Highway" north of Phoenix in Arizona, USA, and he thought it would be a good song title, so he wrote "Carefree Highway" on paper and put it in his briefcase at random, and after almost eight months, when he almost forgot about it, the author suddenly heard "Carefree Highway" in his heart The term is reminiscent of a long failed relationship with a woman named "Ann" who the author met and fell in love with when he was 22 years old, and when she touched Lightfoot, he left him a little unprepared!
The author, Lightfoot, wanted to use the "Carefree Highway" mentality to escape, forget the failed relationship, and be able to get back into life.
Carefree Highway 无忧无虑的高速公路 --- by Gordon Lightfoot
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歌词：Carefree Highway (1) 无忧无虑的高速公路
Picking up the pieces of my sweet, shattered dream, I wonder how the old folks are tonight?
Picking up the fragments of my sweet, shattered dreams, I wonder what happened to the old folks (metaphor: the singer's old friends) tonight?
Her name was Ann and I'll be damned if I recall her face.
Her name was Ann, and if I remembered her face, I would be cursed. (The singer doesn't want to think about this woman's appearance anymore)
She left me not knowing what to do.
She left me behind, not knowing what to do.
Carefree highway, let me slip away on you (2).
Carefree highway, let me slip away from you.
Carefree highway, you’d (3) seen better days.
Carefree highway and you've seen better days.
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes.
Melancholy fell from my head to my shoes in the morning. (Morning after a bad mood or mood)
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you.
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away from you.
Turning back the pages to the times I love best.
Turn the page back to my favorite era.
I wonder if she'll ever do the same.
I don't know if she'd ever done the same thing. (I also miss the beautiful days when I am in love)
Now the thing that I call living is just being satisfied.
Now what I call life is just being satisfied. (It seems that there is no purpose in life)
With knowing I got no one left to blame.
In knowing that I have no one to blame.
Carefree highway, got to see you, my old flame.
Carefree highway, gotta go see you, my old flame (my once burning heart).
Carefree highway, you’d seen better days.
Carefree highway and you've seen better days.
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes.
Melancholy fell from my head to my shoes in the morning. (Morning after a bad mood or mood)
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you.
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away from you.
Searching through the fragments of my dream, shattered sleep, I wonder if the years have closed her mind.
By searching for my dreams, broken sleep fragments, I wonder if all these years have turned off her mind (she doesn't think of the singer anymore?).
I guess it must be wanderlust or trying to get free from the good old faithful feeling we once knew.
I guess it must be wanderlust or trying to liberate the good old faithful feeling we once knew (and known).
Carefree highway, let me slip away on you.
Carefree highway, let me slip away from you.
Carefree highway, you’d seen better days.
Carefree highway and you've seen better days.
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes.
Melancholy fell from my head to my shoes in the morning. (Morning after a bad mood or mood)
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you.
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away from you.
Let me slip away on you.
Let me slip away from you.
Carefree highway, got to see you, my old flame.
Carefree highway, gotta go see you, my old flame (my once burning heart).
Carefree highway, you’d seen better days.
Carefree highway and you've seen better days.
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes.
Melancholy fell from my head to my shoes in the morning. (Morning after a bad mood or mood)
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you.
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away from you.
学习点 Learning Points：
1. The title of this song "Carefree Highway" is a metaphor for a state of mind, that is, I hope to forget about unhappy things as soon as possible and return to life.
2. The "You" here personifies the "Carefree Highway".
3. You’d --- 是“You had”的口语版简写。
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