The A to Z English Podcast A to Z Quick Tok 74 | Famous Song Lyrics
In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack break down some song lyrics by famous artists.
Transcript:
00:00:00
Jack
You're listening to the A-Z English podcast.
00:00:15
Jack
Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is.
00:00:17
Jack
Jack and I.
00:00:18
Jack
Am here with my co-host social and today we have a song lyrics episode for you where we will read a small section of a songs lyrics.
00:00:31
Jack
And then we'll explain what the idiom in the lyric means. So.
00:00:36
Jack
So our first song is break free by Ariana Grande.
00:00:43
Jack
And the idiom is to break free to break free from something, and the lyrics go like this.
00:00:52
Jack
This is the part when I say I don't want you. I'm stronger than I've been before. This is the part when I break free cause I can't resist it no more.
00:01:06
Jack
And social. What? What do you think? Break for what does?
00:01:08
Jack
Break free mean in.
00:01:10
Jack
This scenario, this situation.
00:01:14
Xochitl
I guess she's saying she's breaking free like she's.
00:01:21
Xochitl
Liberating yourself or.
00:01:25
Xochitl
Gaining her independence from a relationship? Maybe.
00:01:31
Xochitl
I would say what do you think, Jack? I haven't heard this song before, actually for our listeners.
00:01:36
Xochitl
I'm I'm not an Ariana fan, so.
00:01:37
Jack
Yeah, I don't recognize this lyric, but I my my understanding of what she's saying is that she's she's been in a relationship with this guy, and this is the part. Now she's going to kind of like being handcuffed or shackled to somebody.
00:01:55
Xochitl
Right.
00:01:57
Jack
And when you break free, it's like you break those handcuffs or break the shackles and you and you're no longer.
00:02:08
Xochitl
Covered tethered with tide.
00:02:09
Jack
You tether you, you know? Yeah, you.
00:02:12
Jack
Right. You're no longer tied to this other person. You're no longer in. You're no longer a prisoner in this relationship. You are free. And so it's like it's like a bird escaping from a cage. You know, it's kind of breaking free. A bird breaks through the cage and gets to fly.
00:02:19
Xochitl
Right.
00:02:32
Jack
Free into the sky. So yeah, that that's what break free means. It's just break free means you're you're.
00:02:40
Jack
You're imprisoned, and then you're free. You get out, you escape. That's that's all it means. I think. To break free is to escape. I think that's the best. Maybe word. Yeah.
00:02:53
Xochitl
I agree. I agree. What's the other song working at First, Jack?
00:02:56
Jack
All right, our second song is by Pat Benatar. This one I.
00:03:01
Jack
Know because I'm old.
00:03:03
Jack
Hit me with your best shot by Pat Benatar. You everybody? Yeah. You know the song.
00:03:06
Xochitl
Oh, I do know the song though.
00:03:09
Xochitl
Because my PE teacher used to play this, I think when I was like a like 6 years old or something.
00:03:19
Jack
Yeah, the lyric is hit me.
00:03:22
Jack
With your best shot, fire away.
00:03:26
Jack
And the idiom is hit me with your best shot. And what does it mean?
00:03:35
Xochitl
I think.
00:03:37
Xochitl
In the US, when we talk about hitting someone with our best shot.
00:03:43
Xochitl
Or or getting hit you know.
00:03:46
Xochitl
By someone's it's like in a way you're talking about being. I'm gonna put this, like, shot down.
00:03:56
Jack
Do your best.
00:03:58
Xochitl
Yeah, well, I thought also, yeah, do your best to, like, shoot me down. Kind of right is.
00:04:05
Xochitl
To stop me or like.
00:04:05
Jack
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. In this case, I think what it means, I think you're right.
00:04:09
Jack
I think it's she's she's saying.
00:04:11
Jack
You know like.
00:04:12
Jack
It's like in a fight when two people are fighting, one goes.
00:04:15
Jack
Punch, punch me. Hit. Give me hit.
00:04:18
Xochitl
Right.
00:04:18
Jack
Me with your.
00:04:18
Jack
Best shot because it's not enough to take me down like I'm stronger than you. Yeah, so.
00:04:20
Xochitl
Right.
00:04:22
Xochitl
Right.
00:04:24
Xochitl
It's like playing if anyone's ever played the video game well, computer game, Street Fighter.
00:04:30
Xochitl
Uh. Or maybe you're talking trash to someone I'll be like. Yeah, he needed best shot. And your two characters are fighting it out on the computer screen.
00:04:40
Xochitl
Yeah, I feel like that's the.
00:04:43
Xochitl
Well, that's the thing.
00:04:44
발표자
Yeah, this.
00:04:45
Jack
This is a chat. This is a challenge. This is she. This is her saying to another person challenging the the. I believe it's a a lover or a, you know, an ex or something like you know I'm I'm gonna.
00:04:59
Jack
You know.
00:05:00
Jack
You go ahead and try. Come after me, you know? Try to attack me.
00:05:05
Jack
Give it hit me with.
00:05:06
Jack
Your best shot because your best is not enough to take me down. You cannot defeat me, so you can try. And so you're challenging the other person like.
00:05:18
Jack
You know ohh you.
00:05:19
Jack
Got a problem with me.
00:05:21
Jack
Hit me with your best shot.
00:05:23
Jack
Because after you hit me, I'll still be standing. I'll still be standing here. You can't. You cannot. You cannot defeat me. That's what I think she's saying in this. Is that the way you read it too?
00:05:37
Xochitl
Yes, I I do read it that way as well, yeah.
00:05:39
발표자
OK, OK.
00:05:42
Xochitl
Yeah. All right. Well, if you have any idioms you would like to break us to break down from song lyrics, make sure to shoot us an e-mail at at ozenglishpodcast@gmail.com. Leave us a comment down below on our website, avenglishpodcast.com and join our WhatsApp group and we'll see you next time. Bye, bye.
00:06:01
Jack
Bye bye.
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