Learn English with Songs – Wild Horses by The Rolling Stones

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Last week, we asked our Facebook friends to tell us what their favourite songs were to put on while they studied. We got great suggestions: Dire Straits, Il Divo, Eric Clapton’s “Lonely Stranger”and the Rolling Stones. So, in today’s lesson, we will be listening to “Wild Horses”.

What do you have to do? Follow the steps:

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

Lyrics

Childhood living is easy to do
The things you wanted I bought them for you
Graceless lady you know who I am
You know I can’t let you slide through my hands
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn’t drag me away
I watched you suffer a dull aching pain
Now you decided to show me the same
No sweeping exits or offstage lines
Could make me feel bitter or treat you unkind
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses, couldn’t drag me away
I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I don’t have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let’s do some living after we die
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we’ll ride them some day
Wild horses couldn’t drag me away
Wild, wild horses, we’ll ride them some day

Vocabulary

Graceless – awkward or clumsy.

Slide – to move smoothly along a surface.

Wild – living in nature without human control or care : not tame.

Drag – to pull (someone or something that is heavy or difficult to move).

Wild horses couldn’t drag me away – the song title is also an idiom we use to say that someone is determined to remain, or stay, with something and will not let anything separate them.

Dull – constant but not sharp or severe.

Aching – to produce a dull continuous pain : to hurt in a way that is constant but not severe.

Sweeping – having a curving form : forming a curve.

Bitter – causing painful emotions.

Unkind – not friendly, pleasant, helpful, etc. : not kind.

Music Video

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