Hello I'm Crown!
Today I'm going to introduce
Moana's "How Far I'll Go!"
Welcome back to Crown's music series
Looking at my outfit
Don't you feel like you're in
Hawaii right now?
I even put flowers in my hair~
Moana came out at the end of 2016
While I've known this movie
for a while
Many people have commented
saying they want to listen to this song
So after listening to it
I realized that this song has a great melody
and the lyrics are meaningful too
So here's the English song series you've been waiting for
Right?
Aren't you really excited?
I know this is the most popular series~
The protagonist is a girl named Moana
She sings about her inner struggles and pain as the chief's daughter
She feels a heavy sense of responsibility
But she also can't ignore her desire for the ocean
Today we'll pick some lyrics to explain and analyze
So let's listen to this song!
This translates to
"Lead" means to guide
"Back" means to return
So "leads back" means
leading someone or something back to a beginning
"Long to be" means really desiring to do something
For example, you can say
"I long to be with her"
There's another way to say this
"long for something or someone" has the same meaning
It means you really hope to have something or someone
So these lyrics generally mean that
she really hopes to go to that great ocean
The translation here is
Here, you can hear
two "rolls"
The first "role" is a noun, which means character
The second "roll" is a verb, which means tumble
So here
you can imagine it as if
you've been hit and
you fell to and rolled on the floor from the impact
In other words, it means to go with the flow, or to fully accept
So these lyrics generally mean that
Everyone has a responsibility on the island
They have their own roles
So she's wondering if she should also stay on the island
and fulfill her own responsibility
This translates to
The "lead" here and the previous "lead" is the same word
But there's a slight difference in meaning
This "lead" means to guide towards a direction
Satisfied means to be content
But! The "I'll be satisfied if I play along" here
doesn't mean that if I literally play
I would feel content
The "play along" here
doesn't literally mean to have fun
Rather, it's closer to reluctantly agreeing and performing
So the lyrics here generally means that if she stays on the island
she knows she can still do many things
But she also knows
this is not what she really wants
These lyrics translate to
which also means the part where the ocean and sky touch
It means the horizon
In the song, since they need to fit the melody
They elongated "horizon" to such a long description
But actually it can be summarized into a word
which is
I'm sure the most commonly heard
saying related to horizon is
It basically means to widen your perspective
So if we use the song's unnecessarily long description
to explain this saying
It becomes
broaden the line where the sky meets the sea
It's so long~
This translates to
Here, let's talk about
This is also a saying
It means we don't know the outcome of something
"If I go there's just no telling how far I'll go"
This sentence is actually quite motivational
Because many times we are not confident in ourselves
But who knows?
If you try it
Things might exceed your expectations
and you might get a great outcome
You can do it!
So that's it for today's song!
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