songs teach you

By Juan David Rodríguez Lopera

Here you are going to find one recommended song. Strengthen your listening, practice your pronunciation and learn new vocabulary.

Raging

Hello sucreños!!

Here is my second recommended song for this year (the first one was Rockabye by Clean Bandit – (feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=papuvlVeZg8).

The song is Raging by Kygo (ft. Kodaline). Kygo (Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll) is a 28-year-old Norwegian DJ, singer, songwriter, and record producer who launched this beautiful song in his debut album “Cloud Nine” back in 2016.

In a review written by Ryan Middleton on April 1st, 2016 and published in Musictimes.com, the author stated: “Unlike what the title would suggest on first glance, "Raging" is a soft, guitar driven, tropical house tune that has a more organic feel than a lot of Kygo’s past works”. And it is true that, at first glance, the title of the song would suggest an inaccurate idea of what the song might be about; and it is because the concept of “raging” could be a bit ambiguous, especially in the way the songwriters used it through the song lyric. On this matter, Middletown also wrote “Instead of raging that one normally might think with partying or anger, the term refers to a couple's love that is raging with passion.”

I invite you to listen, learn, sing and enjoy to this beautiful song which, I am sure, will be very helpful to strengthen your English vocabulary and your all you communicative skills.

Enjoy!

lyric

"Raging"
(By Kygo feat. Kodaline)

Standing in the cold in the frozen wind
I'm leaving you behind but it's not the end
No, no, no
Walking on a plane as I hold my breath
It's gonna be weeks 'til I breathe again
No, no, no

I know that you hate it
And I hate it
Just as much as you
But if you can brave it
I can brave it
Brave it all for you

Call me anytime that you see the lightning
Don't you feel alone, you can always find me
We've got a wild love raging, raging
Lost among a million changing faces
Every day our hearts keep trading places
We've got a wild love raging, raging

Raging, raging
Raging, raging
Raging, raging

Checking into hotel loneliness
It's not what I've been used to, I confess
To wake up three times a night
Talking to a stranger's nothing new
She knows how to smile but not like you
So I wait for you all night

I know that you hate it
And I hate it
Just as much as you
But if you can brave it
I can brave it
Brave it all for you

Call me anytime that you see the lightning
Don't you feel alone, you can always find me
We've got a wild love raging, raging
Lost among a million changing faces
Every day our hearts keep trading places
We've got a wild love raging, raging

Raging, raging

Call me anytime that you see the lightning
Don't you feel alone, you can always find me
We've got a wild love raging, raging
Rolling on the wind with you forever
Holding onto us for worse or better
We've got a wild love raging, raging
Raging, raging
Raging, raging
Call me anytime that you see the lightning
Never feel alone, you can always find me
We've got a wild love raging, raging

useful vocabulary

Raging (adj.): that continues violently. Intense. (Embravecido – Rabioso – Furioso – Intenso – Agudo)
Frozen (adj.): congealed by cold; turned into ice. (Congelado)
Leave somebody behind (phr. vr.): to go out of or away from, as a place. To quit. (Dejar a alguien atrás – Olvidarse de alguien)
Breath (n.): the air taken into and sent out of the lungs while breathing. (respiración)
Hate (vr.): to dislike intensely. To detest. (Odiar)
Brave (vr.): to meet or face with courage. (Enfrentar – Desafiar)
Wild (adj.): living in a state of nature and not tamed. Not civilized. Having or showing violence or great strength and destruction (Salvaje – Agreste)
Trade (vr.): to exchange items, usually without payment of money; a swap. (Intercambiar)
Loneliness (n.): having or suffering from a depressing feeling caused by being alone; lonesome. (Soledad)
Hold (vr.): to have or keep in the hand; grasp. (Resistir)

Source: WordReference

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