Why all good things come to an end

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Usage explanations of natural written and spoken English. Grammar Thesaurus. Word Lists. I haven't heard Nelly speaking, but I can bet her accent is not exactly the same as here singing. Many singers in Britain or America or anywhere else put on a peculiar accent when they are singing because they think it sounds more romantic or more cool or whatever. For instance, it is easy to notice she doesn't pronounce the R's, though in Canada people do pronounce the R's.

She's probably under the influence of American black English and trying to sound cool, or under British influence and trying to sound posh more poetical. But people think life is horrible, so they prefer to escape reality by daydreaming. If something is burning, first you get flames a good thing, because flames give you light and warmth , but then the good thing finishes and all you get is dust cold dark dirt. Friendship is good, but if you want to keep the passion, you will not appreciate the friendship that comes later and then love will disappear completely.

A person that only sees death where something new is beginning. The whole song is giving an answer to this question. To whistle is to produce a sound or a melody by forcing air out through your rounded lips. To bark at the new moon is to bark in that direction, as if the moon were listening to them. The figure of the dogs barking at the new moon is poetical and obscure not clear to understand.

The new moon is the phase of the moon when it is invisible completely dark , so it is part of the cycle where the moon is "dead". But at the same time, we call it "new moon" because it is the beginning of a new cycle. A dog or a wolf barking at the moon is usually an image of death, fear, sadness. But these dogs are not sad, they are not "crying" howling , they are "whistling a new tune", singing something new, so it is a happy thing and it means change.

They want the next cycle of the moon to come hoping it would come soon because they want to die The meaning of this song is difficult to determine. Then, as grown-ups, we find out life is hard, and all good things finish Besides, the good things are like real flowers, they are beautiful because they are brief.