I'm going to do you think that's all the time Hello this is AJ and welcome to the effortless English podcast.

Today I have something a little different for you.

I'm going to teach you a song.

Actually, I'm going to teach you the meaning of the words to a song that I like.

I feel it's a song with a very good message,

and so I want to share it with you, help you to understand it.

Sometimes we hear songs, I know sometimes you listen to English songs and you don't understand the words so much. You don't understand exactly what the singer is trying to say.

So this is an old song by Bon Jovi. It's a favorite karaoke song for a lot of people. So I want to teach it to you.

It's a fun one to sing. It's got a really great meaning that I really love. So's called it's my life it's my life and the

band is called Bon J-O-V-O-N, and in the second word, J-O-V-I, Bon J-O-V-I, Bon J-V-V-E-V-E. That's a person's name, the lead singer, the leader of the band, his name is John Bon Jovi.

So, it's my life, so I'm going to just go through the words sentence by sentence and teach you the direct meaning and also maybe the more deep and emotional meaning too.

So that you have a strong feeling for what this song is about.

So the beginning of the song, the first line is, this ain't a song for the broken-hearted.

So first that word ain't, this ain't a song for the broken-hearted. Ain't

is kind of casual English. We don't use it in writing usually but for speaking we use it and

a ain't means is not. Sometimes it means m not0 or R-0.

So we use it in instead of that.

It's a very casual way.

So this is not a song for the broken-hearted.

That's the meaning.

This ain't a song for the broken-hearted. Same meaning. So it's not a

song for the broken-hearted. Of course broken-hearted, that means people who are sad. If your heart is broken, it means you're

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