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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
I Will Survive lyrics
From Gloria Gaynor's song "I Will Survive":
"At first I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
Without you by my side
But then I spent so many nights
Thinking how you did me wrong
And I grew strong
And I learned how to get along..."
Does "how you did me wrong" mean that 'you didn't identified (read) me properly' or that 'it was bad of you to treat me the way you did'?
"But now I hold my head up high
And you see me
Somebody new
I'm not that chained up little person
Still in love with you
And so you felt like dropping in
And just expect me to be free
And now I'm saving all my loving
For someone who's loving me..."
Does "now I'm saving all my loving/For someone who's loving me" mean that she is still alone and 'saving all her loving' for someone, unknown yet, who might love her in the future or does it mean that, actually, she is now in a happy relationship with someone else?
"At first I was afraid
I was petrified
Kept thinking I could never live
Without you by my side
But then I spent so many nights
Thinking how you did me wrong
And I grew strong
And I learned how to get along..."
Does "how you did me wrong" mean that 'you didn't identified (read) me properly' or that 'it was bad of you to treat me the way you did'?
"But now I hold my head up high
And you see me
Somebody new
I'm not that chained up little person
Still in love with you
And so you felt like dropping in
And just expect me to be free
And now I'm saving all my loving
For someone who's loving me..."
Does "now I'm saving all my loving/For someone who's loving me" mean that she is still alone and 'saving all her loving' for someone, unknown yet, who might love her in the future or does it mean that, actually, she is now in a happy relationship with someone else?
Top answer
Anonymous Does "how you did me wrong" No, the boyfriend jilted her for another woman. Anonymous she is now in a happy relationship with someone else? She has another relationship, and doesn't want her old boyfriend back again.
- Anonymous Does "how you did me wrong" No, the boyfriend jilted her for another woman.
- Anonymous she is now in a happy relationship with someone else?
- She has another relationship, and doesn't want her old boyfriend back again.
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AnonymousDoes "how you did me wrong"No, the boyfriend jilted her for another woman.
Anonymousshe is now in a happy relationship with someone else?She has another relationship, and doesn't want her old boyfriend back again.
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Here the phrase "did me wrong" seems to mean "broke up with," not necessarily because of another woman. For example, the guy might have just "needed his space" and therefore ended the relationship.
"Now I'm saving all my loving for someone who's loving me" here seems to mean that she's simply saying that she'll have nothing to do with the guy - she doesn't appear to really have another s
"Now I'm saving all my loving for someone who's loving me" here seems to mean that she's simply saying that she'll have nothing to do with the guy - she doesn't appear to really have another s
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AnonymousHere the phrase "did me wrong" seems to mean "broke up with," not necessarily because of another woman. For example, the guy might have just "needed his space" and therefore ended the relationship.I would interpret it to mean that he did more than just break up with her. He treated her badly in some way, either by cheating on her, or at least in some
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Thank you, Blue Jay, for your excellent reply. It's what I suspected, i.e. the song lyrics are construed in such a way that it cannot be interpreted accurately and literally. There are 'things' between the lines which may be differently understood.
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