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linguoboy wrote:Perceptor wrote:I found it in a Onerepublic's song "Secrets'. I took that fragment from this song's part:
"This time don't need another perfect lie
Don't care if critics ever jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away"
Hmm...maybe he means "fall into line"? That's a metaphor from Army service, where it means to line up shoulder to shoulder for inspection. The line is supposed to be perfectly straight, so it used in extended sense to mean "share the same opinion". Cf. "toe the line".
Other interpretations, anyone?
vijayjohn wrote:linguoboy wrote:Perceptor wrote:I found it in a Onerepublic's song "Secrets'. I took that fragment from this song's part:
"This time don't need another perfect lie
Don't care if critics ever jump in line
I'm gonna give all my secrets away"
Hmm...maybe he means "fall into line"? That's a metaphor from Army service, where it means to line up shoulder to shoulder for inspection. The line is supposed to be perfectly straight, so it used in extended sense to mean "share the same opinion". Cf. "toe the line".
Other interpretations, anyone?
Maybe it means something like "I don't care if critics ever jump on the opportunity to criticize me one after the other."
Perceptor wrote:Thank you! I need another help
with this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLJ-TaubR48
There's one It's a beautiful song, but i I couldn't find anything about it
(i I mean the text lyrics or smth anything else. Only performers and the title).
I assumed an exemplary option of this text.
May Could you listen to it and correct any mistakes that you can find?) Thanks.
My option:
So baby leave the light on
So that this endless road that leads me to your side
He says, "If you're honest with yourself," meaning "If you face the truth".Perceptor wrote:Could you also help me. The phrase at 2:15 in the same song. I hear "if you run this with yourself". Correct? What does it mean?
"We fall into each other. It just is what it is."Perceptor wrote:Thank you! The last moments that I don't understand are at 1:59-2:06 and at 2:54-3:08. My attempts: 1) We're falling to each other, it just stays ..?.. years.
"I'm washing my hands of all the doubt, 'cause I'll wait for you to finally figure it out."2)I'm washing my hands ...?(walled it out)?... as(cause) i('ll) wait for you to finally fugure it out.
Perceptor wrote:Thank you! What is the difference between "Where are you?" and "Where are you at?" and in which situations i should use the second?
Perceptor wrote:Thanks! I need some help again. What phrases did he say at 0:12-0:25? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... QvteoFiMlg This is my option: "It would be better if you gained nothing at all. This album is blasted. I can't sell this. You're rapping about homosexuals and (as) [...] I can't (sell this shit/cancel this). (You either /you'd rather) change the record (or it's/boards) not coming out." I couldn't dig up anything about it in on the internet.
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