THE TIME SLIP= A situation when you slowly move into a different time. SLIP= (verb) to shift position, to slide out of a place, to move silently smoothly and slowly. WELL SECLUDED= Very hidden, hiding very well. The adjective is “voyeuristic”, so if you do something with voyeuristic intention, you do it because you enjoy watching. WITH VOYEURISTIC INTENTION= A voyeur /vwɑ:j ɜ:*/ is a person (especially hidden) who likes watching others doing something (especially, but not necessarily, something sexual). PELVIC= Adjective referring to the pelvic region, all the area between your legs and your stomach (the hips are the bony edges on the sides of the pelvis). YOU BRING YOUR KNEES IN TIGHT= You put your knees inside, together, tightly (pressing strongly). HIPS= The prominent part of the sides of your body between your legs and your stomach. THE VOID= Something void has nothing inside, and the void is the nothingness, the emptiness. When I was a child I got up at 8 o’clock every day (here, the phrase “every day” tells us that it is a habit) We can also use the simple past for past habits (the same as we use the simple present for present habits), but it is more ambiguous (sometimes we can’t tell if it’s a repeated habit or just one action): We can’t say: “ that house would look very old”) That house used to look very old, but now they have repaired it. I used to get up at 8 o’clock, but now I get up later = I would get up at 8 o’clock, but now I get up later. USED TO can express a habit or a state (a situation), but WOULD can only express a habit We can use WOULD to express a habit in the past, the same as USED TO, but they are not always the same: THE BLACKNESS WOULD HIT ME= Darkness used to hit me. THE BLACKNESS= Darkness (here it refers to an evil sensation). That’s a time warp because time was distorted. The most common use, though, is when you see on TV a slow motion of something fleeting, for example, a drop of water falls into a glass of water and it takes 1/2 second, but you can see it very slowly and it takes 1/2 minute. For example, if you are deep into your memories and are re-living a past scene intensely, so intensely you feel you are living it again now, when you come back to reality you can say that you had a time warp. A time warp is a distortion in the flow of time, either because time stops, or goes extremely slow or because you turn back in time and go to the past or because the past feels like present. TIME WARP= Here it is just the name of the dance, but look at the “Song Meaning” section to understand why they call this dance “Time Warp”. If something takes its toll it means that you have to pay a price for it, that it has unwanted consequences. TOLL= A fixed charge or tax for a privilege. MADNESS= Craziness, the act of being mad (AmE= crazy). He had a pick up truck and the devil's eyes When a snake of a guy gave me an evil wink Let, let, le-le-le-le-let's exercise, let's exercise So you think you can do the time warp, eh? The lyrics for the pop version change a little bit, here they are: Go to links to see the pop version and learn how to dance it. The dance was a success in Britain and got popular for parties, birthdays, wedding and all sorts of celebrations and it is still popular today there. This song got very famous and there is also a more modern pop version of it. This song is a fragment from a famous musical (made also into a movie) called Rocky Humour Picture Show.
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