What the song is about
The singer describes a busy working week in the city: the alarm at six, coffee, the train, hard work and watching the clock. Then the weekend comes. On Saturday they sleep late and meet friends in the park, and on Sunday they read and cook. The chorus compares the "fight" of Monday to Friday with the freedom of Saturday and Sunday.
Useful words
- Days of the week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
- weekday / weekend: a weekday is Monday to Friday, and the weekend is Saturday and Sunday
- alarm (clock): the clock that wakes you up. The alarm rings at six.
- swipe a card: move a card through or over a reader, for example on the train
- busy: with a lot to do
- rush / rushing: to hurry. No more rushing.
- delay: waiting because something is late
- boss: the person you work for
- breeze: a light, gentle wind
Expressions
- work hard: do a lot of work
- sleep until ten: stay in bed until ten o'clock
- until it gets dark: until the evening, when the sun goes down
- run around town: go to many places in a hurry
- let my hair down: relax and have fun (an idiom; it has nothing to do with real hair)
- as I please: the way I want
- every single day: every day, with extra emphasis
- no more...: this has stopped. No more delay.
Grammar
- Present simple for routines and facts: The alarm rings at six. I sleep until ten. The people walk fast.
- Present continuous for actions happening now: I am working hard. The city is moving.
- -ing phrases without a subject: Drinking my coffee, Taking the train, Meeting my friends. In songs and notes these short phrases list activities. In a full sentence you would say I am drinking my coffee.
- can for freedom and ability: I can do anything.
- want to + verb: I want to enjoy every single day. I don't want to hear the alarm.
- Time with prepositions: at six, until ten, Monday to Friday, five days a week.
Careful: song language
- The song nearly always says it is and I am in full. In everyday speech people usually say it's and I'm: It's a fight. I'm finally free.
- "getting in the mix" is mainly there to rhyme with six. It means joining the action, but people don't usually say it about drinking morning coffee.
- "waiting for the evening to clear" is chosen for the rhyme with near. It is not a normal expression. Say waiting for the evening or waiting for the work day to end.
- "Sunday is quiet, reading a book" is a loose line. In normal English you would say Sunday is quiet. I read a book.
- "Monday to Friday, it is a fight" is figurative and means the week is hard. Nobody is really fighting.