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Today we are going to listen to John Denver, another great artist in our series "The Best of English Music over the past fifty years."

Learning English Songs - 'Fly Away' by John Denver

All of her days have gone soft and cloudy

All of her dreams have gone dry

All of her nights have gone sad and shady

She's getting ready to fly

Fly away fly away fly away.

Life in the city can make you crazy

For sounds of the sand and the sea

Life in a high rise can make you hungry

For things that you can't even see

Fly away fly away fly away.

In this whole world there's nobody as lonely as she

There's nowhere to go and there's nowhere

That she'd rather be.

She's looking for lovers and children playing

She's looking for signs of the spring

She listens for laughter and sounds of dancing

She listens for any old things

Fly away, fly away, fly away

In this whole world there's nobody as lonely as she

There's nowhere to go and there's nowhere

That she'd rather be.

All of her days have gone soft and cloudy

All of her dreams have gone dry

All of her nights have gone sad and shady

She's getting ready to fly

Fly away, fly away, fly away.

What does this song mean? Or more correctly, what does this song mean to you? How does it speak to your inner being and experience?

This is really what learning English songs is about.

Reality is a personal interpretation. We are used to growing up with the idea that there is always only one answer.

What a song means depends on who is listening to it and the associations and memories that song evokes.

As long as you are learning and understanding the meanings of the individual words like soft, cloudy and dry - then you are making great progress !

The next step is to put the words together in the phrase and think about it.

"All of her days have gone soft and cloudy"

Clouds are soft, mist is cloud. Do you see her enshrouded in soft mist? Unable to see clearly where she is going?

Or could it mean that her head is in the clouds and she feels disconnected from everybody else?

Or are the clouds a block from the sunlight which could be a metaphor for contentment and happiness and she feels this lack of happiness in her life?

"All of her dreams have gone dry"

What does the word 'dreams' mean to you? Her general hopes and wishes or her visions during sleep? It could well mean either.

She could have troubled dreams or her hopes and wishes are devoid of enthusiasm.

Dry is to be without moisture. Do her dreams lack life, as water is the giver of life. Water is synonymous with emotion. Do her dreams lack feeling, excitement, love.. are they dry of emotion?

To become too analytical and trying to find one meaning that fits all is not reality. One needs to take into account the inner being - the experiencer.

Interpretation is an inner personal experience, as is reality.

Overall, it is easy to see that the song is about a woman who is not content with her life and she is getting ready to fly.

Fly means that she is getting ready to leave. It does not necessarily mean that she is going to catch an airplane.

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