Learn English with Songs – “Better together”

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Who of you are Jack Johnson fans? Today’s your lucky day! And it’s a good day too, even if you are not a fan, because “Better Together” is a beautiful song, with beautiful lyrics and today we’re going to understand what they mean.

1. Read the lyrics
2. Understand the vocabulary
3. Sing!

Lyrics

There’s no combination of words
I could put on the back of a postcard
No song that I could sing
But I can try for your heart,
our dreams, and they are made out of real things
like a shoebox of photographs
with sepia-toned loving
Love is the answer
at least for most of the questions in my heart, like
Why are we here? And where do we go?
And how come it’s so hard?
It’s not always easy and
sometimes life can be deceiving
I’ll tell you one thing, it’s always better when we’re together

Mmmm, It’s always better when we’re together
Yeah we’ll look at the stars and we’re together
Well, it’s always better when we’re together
Yeah it’s always better when we’re together

And all of these moments
just might find their way into my dreams tonight,
But I know that they’ll be gone
when the morning light sings
and brings new things
for tomorrow night you see
that theyll be gone too,
too many things I have to do
But if all of these dreams might find their way
into my day to day scene
I’d be under the impression
i was somewhere in between
With only two,
Just me and you,
Not so many things we got to do
or places we got to be
We’ll sit beneath the mango tree, now,

Yeah It’s always better when we’re together
Mmmm, we’re somewhere in between together
Well, it’s always better when we’re together
Yeah, it’s always better when we’re together

mmmmmmm

I believe in memories
they look so, so pretty when I sleep
Hey now, and when I wake up,
you look so pretty sleeping next to me
But there is not enough time,
There is no, no song I could sing
and there is no combination of words I could say
but I will still tell you one thing
We’re better together

Vocabulary

Postcard – a card on which a message may be sent by mail without an envelope and that often has a picture on one side.

Shoebox – a box that shoes are sold in. People keep things in them.

Deceiving – to make (someone) believe something that is not true.

Scene – something that happens : an event or occurrence.

Under the impression – n idea or belief that is usually not clear or certain.

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