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Vintersorg Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary
Sense of sentence
I got some sentence from the song:
"Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else"
But I can't understand the meaning of this expression.
Could somebody help me and explain it in clear text ? I think it belows to idioms or so.......
(Full text of the song is here: http://dag.wieers.com/personal/lyrics/A_Reason_To_Believe.php )
thx.....
"Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else"
But I can't understand the meaning of this expression.
Could somebody help me and explain it in clear text ? I think it belows to idioms or so.......
(Full text of the song is here: http://dag.wieers.com/personal/lyrics/A_Reason_To_Believe.php )
thx.....
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Hello Vintersorg, welcome to English Forums! The usual sentiment in a ballad would be "it's hard to live without you". In this case, the singer says "you make it hard to live without somebody else".
- Hello Vintersorg, welcome to English Forums!
- The usual sentiment in a ballad would be "it's hard to live without you".
- In this case, the singer says "you make it hard to live without somebody else".
- In other words, it's a slightly sarcastic comment: "you are such a difficult person to live with, that it would be very easy to live with somebody else instead".
- The singer seems to have ambiguous feelings towards the female in question, though: he also says "Someone like you makes it hard to think about somebody else", which is more straightforwardly amorous.
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Hello Vintersorg, welcome to English Forums!
The usual sentiment in a ballad would be "it's hard to live without you". In this case, the singer says "you make it hard to live without somebody else". In other words, it's a slightly sarcastic comment: "you are such a difficult person to live with, that it would be very easy to live with somebody else instead".
The singer seems to
The usual sentiment in a ballad would be "it's hard to live without you". In this case, the singer says "you make it hard to live without somebody else". In other words, it's a slightly sarcastic comment: "you are such a difficult person to live with, that it would be very easy to live with somebody else instead".
The singer seems to
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I disagree, MrP -- I don't think it's sarcastic -- I think it simply means "someone like you makes it hard to live alone." (alone= without somebody else)
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