Hi，this is Crown
Today，I'll be introducing Ed Sheeran's Photograph
Welcome back to English Song Spotlight
I've introduced Closer In the previous episode
Today，I'll be doing the very touching photograph
The two most popular male singer's song requests are 7 years and Photograph
I'm in the dilemma of which song I should do first
and I decided to do this warm and touching song
When Ed was on tour in 2012
He and his gf Nina Nesbitt was separated
Because of this long distance relationship
He got the inspiration of this song
Today we'll be explaining and analyzing the lyrics
the info section also have my translations
You can take a look if needed
Let's check this song out
Loving can hurt
Loving can hurt sometimes
But it's the only thing that I know
When it gets hard
You know it can get hard sometimes
It is the only thing that makes us feel alive
The translation of this sentence is
Loving can hurt but it's the only thing that I know
Love is beautiful，but not every part of it
We may be hurt sometimes，or we might hurt others
The loving can hurt's loving is a gerund
It means when you love，when you give everything
But it’s the only thing that I know means
whether love will hurt or not，I'll still do it
The translation of this is
When it gets hard，It is the only thing that makes us feel alive
No matter if it is life or love，there'll be hardtimes
But sometimes，going through these situations
will let us treasure and appreciate the beautiful moments
of the past and future
I personally think that you know it can get hard sometimes
means when life suddenly gets difficult
Because when life is difficult
love makes you keep going
so the hard here means life becomes difficult
or hard
We keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing
Hearts are never broken
Time’s forever frozen still
The translation is
We keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories ourselves
Our love is preserved in the photograph
We made these memories ourselves
and was created by the photos again
Keep has a lot of meanings
over here it means preserve
not letting love disappear
You can also say create memories instead of make memories
They both have the same meaning
The translation of this is
In the photo，our eyes are never closing
Hearts are never broken and time’s forever frozen still
Photos capture an eternal moment
The love in that moment
would be recorded as eternal memory
never closing means the action is never gonna happen
never broken means hearts are not gonna be broken
Frozen is also the name of a famous cartoon
which means 凍結
Over here means the time is frozen
Usually we say time stands still
Here，it is changed into time‘s forever frozen still
It has a different beauty in rhyme
Loving can heal
Loving can mend your soul
And it's the only thing that I know (know)
I swear it will get easier
Remember that with every piece of ya
And it's the only thing we take with us when we die
The translation is
Loving can heal and mend your soul
It's kinda opposite of the first phrase
Here，love can heal everything
It can heal wounds and fill blanks
Heal and mend have similar meanings
one is to heal
the other is to fix
Both are getting things into a better condition
There is another synonym of heal
which is cure
In RPG games we often have HP
When you want to restore your HP， it's called heal
For example in Final Fantasy
Cure is the move that restores your HP in a battle
You guys may not be familiar with mend
When we're fixing something
we often use repair of fix
This means
I swear，everything will be better
This is corresponding to the first phrase
It mentioned life gets hard sometimes
Sometimes life gets hard
but I swear it will get easier
Because there is love，I swear
Everything will be easier and better
Swear means 保證 or 發誓
In Harry Potter，if you wanna use Marauder's Map
You have to say
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good
So you can keep me
Inside the pocket Of your ripped jeans
Holdin' me closer
'Til our eyes meet
You won't ever be alone
Wait for me to come home
It means that
So you can keep me Inside the pocket of your ripped jeans
The me actually referred to the person on the photograph
So it means that you can keep my photo in your pocket
Ripped means torn
It is often used to describe fabric
Jeans is 牛仔褲
This part is pretty romantic
You keep a person by your side by having their photo with you
The translation of this is
Holdin' me closer
'Til our eyes meet，you won't ever be alone
Meet in the eyes means
staring at each other
and you won’t ever be alone
means you will never be alone
你將永遠不孤單
That's the English Song Spotlight for today
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But it takes a lot of time researching、organizing and translating
And it also requires great health condition
so as to record video with great quality
Most of you guys probably know
I'm not very healthy and get sick pretty often
Like today I kinda have a sore throaw
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