#8 Find an English song that interests you and post its lyrics, audio file & video (if any) file in your blog.

Yael Naim - New soul

About "New soul":

"New Soul" is a song by the French-Israeli R&B/soul/electropop singer Yael Naïm from her eponymous album. The song has gained popularity in the U.S. following its use by Apple in an advertisement for their MacBook Air laptop. In the song Naïm sings of being a new soul who has come into the world to learn "a bit 'bout how to give and take." However she finds that things are harder than they seem. The song features a prominent "la la la la" section as its hook.

The music video story:

The video shows Naïm moving into an empty apartment. She covers the walls in wallpaper depicting a lake surrounded by forest. She then begins unpacking several other things, including furniture, a piano, a goldfish in a bowl and a number of photographs of people, which she hangs on the wall. As she hangs the photographs, the people in the pictures are shown in real life, in the setting depicted in the pictures. Naïm then begins painting on the photographs, and whatever she paints appears with the people in real life. She removes one of the pictures to discover a hole in the wall, revealing the actual forest setting shown in the wallpaper. She pushes on the wall, and it falls away into the lake. The remaining walls fall onto the water leaving the floor of the apartment like a raft floating on the lake, together with her furniture. The people from her pictures reach her by boat. They climb onto the makeshift raft with her, as they all celebrate, dancing and playing instruments, whilst she empties the goldfish bowl into the lake.

Lyrics to New Soul :

I'm a new soul
I came to this strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout how to give and take.
But since I came here,Felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake

-la-la-la-la-la-la...

I'm a young soulIn this very strange world
Hoping I could learn a bit bout what is true and fake
But why all this hate?Try to communicate
Finding trust and love is not always easy to make

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la...

This is a happy end
'Cause you don't understand
Everything you have done
Why's everything so wrong?
This is a happy endCome and give me your hand
I'll take you far awayI'm a new soulI came to this strange worldHoping
I could learn a bit bout how to give and take.
But since I came here,Felt the joy and the fear
Finding myself making every possible mistake
I'm a new soul...
(la, la, la, la,...)
In this very strange world...
Every possible mistake
Possible mistake
Every possible mistakeMistakes, mistakes, mistakes...
Take take take take take...
take a mistakeTake,
take a mistakeTake,
take a mistake
(oh oh oh oh...)
[fade out]
(oh oh oh oh...)

This is one of my favorite songs. I love both of the melody and lyric.
The melody is soft. I love the sound of trombone in this song. Its register is lower than that of the trumpet and makes you feel comfortable.
The lyric touched my heart. When you're growing up, you think what's the value of you. You want to catch something, but you don't know what it is or if that is you search for. You must take a lot of mistakes. That's ok! You just a new soul!