If something comes to you, it’s very direct and it’s normally used to talk about ideas or solutions to problems. This is quite a poetic way of saying someone visited me. Or I should have been angry, but I found myself smiling and laughing. You might hear something like: When the boss asked for a volunteer, I was surprised to find myself offering to help. It’s not just that I am in trouble, but I am aware of being in difficult times. I find myself means I discover that I am. Firstly, I find myself in times of trouble.
There are a couple of bits of interesting language here.
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When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me What are you going to do about the situation at work? Nothing, I’m going to let it lie for now. And if there’s a problem or situation that you don’t want to get involved with you can say I’m going to let it lie. We do say let someone be, meaning leave them alone, they know what they are doing. It’s like saying “it’s cool – everything’s going to be fine”. I think that there’s a sort of resignation or acceptance that things are OK or how they are supposed to be. So I think that in Liverpool in the 60s, the phrase must have been more common and means stop struggling or trying to change things, leave everything alone and it will be OK. His mother appeared to him in his dream and said to him, “It’s going to be OK, just let it be”. There’s a video of Paul McCartney talking about the inspiration for this song and he said, in the 1960s, when he was stressed or feeling the pressure of being a Beatle, he had a dream about his mother who had died when he was 14. Now, this is not a phrase that’s very common in regular conversation. The title and repeated lyric let it be is a good place to start. I’m going to talk about the words and what I think the song means and I’ll focus on the interesting vocabulary as we go. So I am delighted to talk about this song. And the feeling of the song is perfect for lots of situations when you need to calm down.
It was a real campfire singalong song when I was growing up. This is a song that I heard throughout my childhood. Today, in response to a request from Nicky, I’m going to talk about the Beatles song Let it be. There’s a page for this podcast with the transcript, an activity and a task for you to do in the comments section. You can find a transcript of this podcast on .uk.
My name is Jack and I’m making this podcast for you to learn or revise English vocabulary. Hello and welcome to Learn English Vocabulary.
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