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Shouldn't "Will" be "Would" ?

Shouldn't "Will" be "Would" ?

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-catskill-•
I'm not familiar with the song, but poetry and song lyrics frequently use "incorrect" language to achieve some sort of effect. This means that song lyrics, although useful, are not always the best learning resource.
sargeanthost•
The official lyric is "You'd be the love of my life when I was young". Fyi some lyrics on Spotify are hand typed
PAPERGUYPOOF•
If it were grammatically correct, yes it'd be "You'd be the love of my life from when I was young" but 1, a lot of people confuse will and would, and 2, song lyrics aren't the best place to learn grammar
DepravedHerring•
Based on the limited context, I assume the speaker is trying to convey that in the future, they will refer to this person as “the love of my life when I was young“. Implying that although they really love this person now, they see this relationship ultimately ending while they’re still young.
PhantomImmortal•
Funnily enough I just looked this up on YT Music and it's been changed to "you'd". Examining them: "you will be the the love of my life when I was young" can work if she's saying *in the future* he will be the person she *thought* was the love of her life when she was young. "you would be the love of my life when I was young" is expressing something like "if things were different, we would've stayed together forever and been the loves of each other's lives Given the rest of the song I think #2 is correct
Psychpsyo•
It definitely is weird like this, but if it were "would", the whole sentence would need to be "You'd be the love of my life if I were young". "when I was" is just a moment in the past, not a hypothetical.
general-ludd•
To me neither makes sense. “You will be” is the future aspect. It cannot refer to the past. “You would be” must be followed by a hypothetical scenario. “You would be the love of my life were we together more.” Or “you would have been the love of my life had we met when we were young.” It’s not even poetically compelling. It just a verb tense mess.
Dismal-Fig-731•
When grammar meets poetry rules generally go out the window
jfshay•
the grammatically correct version would be "you would have been the love of my life" or " you would've been the love of my life." This is the conditional perfect, used to talk about something that could have happened in the past depending on something else happening first. The singer is saying, "you would have been (or become) the love of my life if we had met when I was young." It's actually kind of a crummy line because it implies that the listener has missed their chance to become the love of the speaker's life.
spraksea•
It is a very odd sentence. My instinct is that it should be, "You would have been the love of my life when I was young." But looking at the song as a whole, I think maybe what the singer is trying to convey is, "In the future, when I look back on my younger years, I will remember you as the person I believed to be the love of my life." What she said is probably not the most grammatical way to say it, but it's a weird complex thing to express.
Frostfire26•
Songs have a tendency to not care about grammar anyways
GladosPrime•
Poetic licence lets you break the rules.... but it really makes mo sense
tramanmann•
"Would" would change the meaning of the lyric to a longing that has already happened. "Will" places that feeling in the future. So, it's a prediction of how she'd feel when she looks back at this moment.
RadiantSet3462•
Unhelpful, but great song choice I love Gracie abrams
Beneficial_Mud5515•
Unless the lyrical speaker has a time machine, then yes it's grammatically wrong lol
kirk2892•
Probably the most correct would be “would have been.”
MarsMonkey88•
Side note, but just fyi sometimes song lyrics are not grammatically correct in order to accurate things like rhythm or rhyme.
disinterestedh0mo•
In this case, it sounds like the singer is describing a story/scenario and assigning the listener to the role of "love of my life when I was young"
HortonFLK•
This looks like poetry. All the rules go loosey goosey with poetry.
TotWaffle_withSauce•
“You’ll be” is far better poetically than “you’d be”. So… no.
Hot_Car6476•
It's a song - there's no reason to expect them to be grammatically correct.... nor to even make sense. I have no idea what she's saying.
John_Bot•
It's shitty English even when it's "corrected"
Messup7654•
That just doesnt make sense. Either the lyrics are wrong or the singer just said a sentence that isn't grammatically correct which is very common.
Paul2377•
I don’t know the song but surely it should be “you were the love of my life when I was young”.
Ok_Television9820•
I wouldn’t try to learn grammar rules from song lyrics or poetry, or make too much effort puzzling out any examples that don’t seem to follow the rules.
Lucky_otter_she_her•
also since you underlined 'when i was' what's going on ther is that most folks dont know let alone care about the subjunctiv case these days
Specific_Custard_803•
Yup