"Every Breath You Take" by The Police

 ACTIVITIES

• Write the words in three groups: break, day, face, make, play, embrace, say, stay, take, trace, aches and take.

/ei/	/eis/	/eik/
day	face	break

• Now complete the song with those words:

 EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE

1                 Every breath you __________

Every move you __________

Every bond you _________

Every step you _________

I’ll be watching you.

2                 Every single __________

Every word you __________

Every game you __________

Every night you __________

I’ll be watching you.

3                 Oh can’t you see

You belong to me

How my poor heart __________

With every step you take.

4                 Since you’ve gone

I’ve been lost without a __________

I dream at night I can only see your _________

I look around but it’s you I can’t __________

I feel so cold and I long for your ___________

I keep crying, baby, baby, please

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"Let Her Go" by Passenger

Mike Rosenberg, Passsenger, is an English folk-rock singer who has become famous with his song, Let Her Go.




QUESTIONS:

• how does the narrator feel?
• what has he/she recently experienced?

LYRICS
Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go

Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you'll make a dream last
But dreams come slow and they go so fast

You see her when you close your eyes
Maybe one day you'll understand why
Everything you touch surely dies

But you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go

Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast

Well you see her when you fall asleep
But never to touch and never to keep
'Cause you loved her too much
And you dived too deep

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go

And you let her go
And you let her go
Well you let her go

'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go

'Cause you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know you love her when you let her go

And you let her go

Interview to Mike Rosenberg

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Don't Look Back in Anger

Don't Look Back in Anger from Ana Arias Castro

Can you spot a difference in the lyrics between the version above and the version sung by Chris Martin in the Manchester Concert in memory of the victims of the May 2017 terrorist attack?

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Song: Wake Me Up when September Ends

picture from Wikipedia

EXERCISES:

1. Complete the blanks in the song. The missing words refer to time. (Check your answers)
2. Which of these statements are true in this song?

• The singer/narrator misses his father.
• These are bad times.
• There will be better times in the future.

WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS

Summer has come and passed

The innocent can ___________ last

wake me up when September ends

like my father's come to _____________

seven _____________ has gone so fast

wake me up when September ends

here comes the rain again

falling from the stars

drenched in my pain again

becoming who we are

as my memory rests

but never forgets what I lost

wake me up when September ends

summer has come and passed

the innocent can never last

wake me up when September ends

ring out the bells again

like we did when ________________ began

wake me up when September ends

here comes the rain again

falling from the stars

drenched in my pain again

becoming who we are

as my memory rests

but never forgets what I lost

wake me up when September ends

______________ has come and passed

The innocent can never last

wake me up when September ends

like my father's come to pass

twenty years has gone so fast

wake me up when September ends

wake me up when September ends

wake me up when September ends

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"Tears in heaven" by Eric Clapton

ACTIVITIES:
1. Look for words containing 
a. /ei/:
b. /e/:
c. /i:/:

2. How does the author of the song feel?

3. Look for all the verbs and write their infinitive, past simple and past participle forms (both in regular and irregular verbs):

LYRICS:

Would you know my name

if I saw you in heaven? 

Would it be the same 

if I saw you in heaven? 

I must be strong and carry on 

'Cause I know I don't belong

here in heaven...

Would you hold my hand 

if I saw you in heaven? 

Would you help me stand 

if I saw you in heaven? 

I'll find my way through night and day 

'Cause I know I just can't stay

here in heaven...

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees 

Time can break your heart, have you begging please...

Beyond the door there's peace I'm sure 

And I know there'll be no more

tears in heaven...

Would you know my name 

if I saw you in heaven? 

Would it be the same 

if I saw you in heaven? 

I must be strong and carry on 

'Cause I know I don't belong

here in heaven

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Musixmatch's searchable database contains more than 7,5 million lyrics in more than 32 languages (many of them in Spanish). Find out more at Wikipedia.

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Wake me up when September ends by Green Day

WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS

Summer has come and passed

The innocent can never last

wake me up when September ends

like my father's come to pass

seven years has gone so fast

wake me up when September ends

here comes the rain again

falling from the stars

drenched in my pain again

becoming who we are

as my memory rests

but never forgets what I lost

wake me up when September ends

summer has come and passed

the innocent can never last

wake me up when September ends

ring out the bells again

like we did when spring began

wake me up when September ends

here comes the rain again

falling from the stars

drenched in my pain again

becoming who we are

as my memory rests

but never forgets what I lost

wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed

The innocent can never last

wake me up when September ends

like my father's come to pass

twenty years has gone so fast

wake me up when September ends

wake me up when September ends

wake me up when September ends