好歌赏析，听歌学英语 —— If I Only Had Time 要是我有时间

Weida + Xiaoshuang "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" have a slower pace and are easy to master; And there is also a part of the story, the words are concise and beautiful, and the grammar is correct. 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.

The lyrics of this "If I Only Had Time" are very simple, with less than 120 words (and a lot of them are repeated).

The song was translated by Michel Fugain in 1967 into a French tune "Je n'Aurai Pas le Temps", and in 1968 it was recorded in English by New Zealand singer John Rowles; In most European and American countries, the pop song charts are ranked within the top 20.

The lyrics mainly say that time flies and life is short, but there are too many things to do (dreams), including wanting to achieve some dreams with your lover; So I hope I can have a little more time and can fulfill more dreams.

Ladies and gentlemen, do you have a dream? Do you feel like you have enough time to achieve your dreams?

Everyone must have dreams, and life will be motivated and meaningful! But our dreams must be within our reach, or they will be unrealistic extravagant hopes, utopian dreams, and pipe dreams! Are you right?

If I Only Had Time 要是我有时间 --- by John Rowles

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歌词：If I Only Had Time 要是我有时间

If I only had time, only time, so much to do if I only had time, if I only had time.

If only I had time, only time, so much to do, if only I had time, if only I had time.

Dreams to pursue if I only had time they’d (1) be mine.

If I had the time to pursue my dreams, they would be mine.

Time like the wind goes on (2) hurrying by and the hours just fly.

Time continues to rush by like the wind, and the hours fly away.

Where to begin there are mountains I’ll climb if I’d (3) time.

There were mountains at the beginning, and if I had time, I would have climbed them.

Since I met you I’ve thought life really is too short.

Ever since I met you, I've felt that life is really too short.

Loving you, so many things we could make true.

Loving you, we can make so many things come true.

A whole century isn’t enough to satisfy me, so much to do if I only had time, if I only had time.

A whole century is not enough to satisfy me, so much to do, if only I had time, if only I had time.

Dreams to pursue if I only had time they’d be mine.

If I had the time to pursue my dreams, they would be mine.

If I only had time, only time.

If I have time, only time.

学习点 Learning Points：

1. They’d --- 是 “They would” 的口语版简写；因为后面跟着的动词是 “Be” ，是现在式，所以只可以是“would 或 could，不会是 Had” 但因应句子的意思，“would” 是最为合适的。 而这里的“They 它们”是指那些梦想。
2. Goes on （Go on） --- 是 “继续、持续” 的意思。
3. I'd --- is different from the "'d" in the first one, which is the colloquial shorthand for "I had".

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