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		Teaching material > Looking for bits of text from pop songs     
			
		 Looking for bits of text from pop songs 
		
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 Akanah
 
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							| This is is very intensive, the lyrics are heart-rending and so are the music itself and the singer �s voice   Something is wrong with the sum of usThat I can�t seem to erase
 How can I be the only one
 Without a smile on my face
 
 [chorus]
 
 Well now, you�re laughing out loud
 At just the thought of being alive
 And I was wondering
 Could I just be you tonight
 
  "Could I  be you" Matchbox 20   Eric Clapton �s "Wonderful tonight" (Nikadixon �s one) is the most beautiful love song ever. It shows that love is in the little things.   Night everybody :=)   |  29 Jul 2009     
					
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 elderberrywine
 
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							| wonderful songs - thank you so much. YOU are wonderful. Just what I was looking for.
 any ideas about negative emotions now? conflict, confusion, unhappiness, despair..?
 
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 manonski (f)
 
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							| For unhappiness, Insensitive by Jann Arden     How do you cool your lipsAfter a summer�s kiss
 How do you rid the sweat
 After the body bliss
 How do you turn your eyes
 From the romantic glare
 How do you block the sound
 Of a voice you�d know anywhere
 
 Oh, I really should have known
 By the time you drove me home
 By the vagueness in your eyes
 Your casual good-byes
 By the chill in your embrace
 The expression on your face
 That told me
 Maybe You might have some advice to give
 On how to be
 Insensitive
 Insensitive
 Insensitive
 
 How do you numb your skin
 After the warmest touch
 How do you slow your blood
 After the body rush
 How do you free your soul
 After you�ve found a friend
 How do you teach your heart
 It�s a crime to fall in love again
 
 Oh, you probably won�t remember me
 It�s probably ancient history
 I�m one of the chosen few
 Who went ahead and fell for you
 I�m out of hope, I�m out of touch
 I fell too fast, I feel too much
 I thought that you might have
 Some advice to give on how to be
 Insensitive
 I really should have known
 By the time you drove me home
 By the vagueness in your eyes
 Your casual good-byes
 By the chill in your embrace
 The expression on your face
 That told me
 Maybe You might have some advice to give
 On how to be
 Insensitive
 Insensitive
 Insensitive
 
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 goodnesses
 
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							| For this one I don �t have the lyrics yet But it is as simple as it is moving. Hope you have a strong heart.       |  29 Jul 2009     
					
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 goodnesses
 
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							| Here are the Lyrics: By Declan Galbraith   In my dream children sing a song of love for every boy and girl The sky is blue and fields are green and laughter is the language of the world
 Then I wake and all I see is a world full of people in need
 
 Tell me why (why) does it have to be like this?
 Tell me why (why) is there something I have missed?
 Tell me why (why) cos I don �t understand.
 When so many need somebody we don �t give a helping hand.
 Tell me why?
 
 Everyday I ask myself what will I have to do to be a man?
 Do I have to stand and fight to prove to everybody who I am?
 Is that what my life is for to waste in a world full of war?
 
 Tell me why (why) does it have to be like this?
 Tell me why (why) is there something I have missed?
 Tell me why (why) cos I don �t understand.
 When so many need somebody we don �t give a helping hand.
 Tell me why?
 
 (children) tell me why? (declan) tell me why?
 (children) tell me why? (declan) tell me why?
 (together) just tell me why, why, why?
 
 Tell me why (why) does it have to be like this?
 Tell me why (why) is there something I have missed?
 Tell me why (why) cos I don �t understand.
 When so many need somebody we don �t give a helping hand.
 
 Tell me why (why,why,does the tiger run)
 Tell me why (why why do we shoot the gun)
 Tell me why (why,why do we never learn)
 Can someone tell us why we let the forest burn?
 
 (why,why do we say we care)
 Tell me why (why,why do we stand and stare)
 Tell me why (why,why do the dolphins cry)
 Can some one tell us why we let the ocean die ?
 
 (why,why if we �re all the same)
 tell me why (why,why do we pass the blame)
 tell me why (why,why does it never end)
 can some one tell us why we cannot just be friends?
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							| Kate Winslet �s what if   Here I stand aloneWith this weight upon my heart
 And it will not go away
 In my head I keep on looking back
 Right back to the start
 Wondering what it was that made you change
      - Tracy Chapman, Baby Can I Hold You (conflict)   Sorry Is all that you can�t say
 Years gone by and still
 Words don´t come easily
 Like sorry
 Like sorry
 
 Forgive me
 Is all that you can�t say
 Years gone by and still
 Words don´t come easily
 Like forgive me
 Forgive me
 
 But you can say baby
 Baby can I hold you tonight
 Maybe if I�d told you the right words
 At the right time
 You�d be mine
 
   Keane �s everybody �s changing (despair/confusion) (with a litlle help from my daughter...)   You �re gone from here
 Soon you will disappear
 Fading into beautiful light
 �Cause everybody �s changing
 And I don �t feel right
 
 Coldplay The Scientist (complexity/confusion/loss)
   I was just guessing at numbers and figures, pulling the puzzles apart Questions of science, Science and progress, Do not speak as loud as my heart
 Tell me you love me, Come back to haunt me, Oh when I rush to the start
 Running in circles, Chasing our tails, Coming back as we are
 
 Nobody said it was easy
 Oh It �s such a shame for us to part
 Nobody said it was easy
 No one ever said it would be so hard
 I �m going back to the start
   Peter Gabriel�s BIKO    When I try to sleep at nightI can only dream in red
 The outside world is black and white
 With only one colour dead
 Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
 Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko
 Yihla Moja, Yihla Moja
 -The man is dead
 
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 manonski (f)
 
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							| Unbreak my heart by Toni Braxton is a song about pain.     How can you mend a broken heart     I can think of younger days when living for my lifeWas everything a man could want to do
 I could never see tomorrow, but I was never told about the sorrow
 
 And how can you mend a broken heart?
 How can you stop the rain from falling down?
 How can you stop the sun from shining?
 What makes the world go round?
 How can you mend a this broken man?
 How can a loser ever win?
 Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again
 
 I can still feel the breeze that rustles through the trees
 And misty memories of days gone by
 We could never see tomorrow, no one said a word about the sorrow
 
 And how can you mend a broken heart?
 How can you stop the rain from falling down?
 How can you stop the sun from shining?
 What makes the world go round?
 How can you mend this broken man?
 How can a loser ever win?
 Please help me mend my broken heart and let me live again
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 goodnesses
 
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							| Yes dear you should make that WS.  Can �t wait to see it and the project too. To be sincere with you I have  a Unit dealing with the same topic "Keep Cool" by the end of the school year. It is about emotions, feelings and humour. I am sure your project ideas and WS will be of great help and certainly very inspiring.
 
 Wish you a lot courage.
 
 Thanks a lot for these (at last) sweet moment.
 
 Regards from Algeria
 
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							| Kate Winslet �s what if   Here I stand aloneWith this weight upon my heart
 And it will not go away
 In my head I keep on looking back
 Right back to the start
 Wondering what it was that made you change
   Keane �s everybody �s changing (despair/confusion) (with a litlle help from my daughter...)   You �re gone from here
 Soon you will disappear
 Fading into beautiful light
 �Cause everybody �s changing
 And I don �t feel right
 
 Coldplay The Scientist (complexity/confusion/loss)
   I was just guessing at numbers and figures, pulling the puzzles apart Questions of science, Science and progress, Do not speak as loud as my heart
 Tell me you love me, Come back to haunt me, Oh when I rush to the start
 Running in circles, Chasing our tails, Coming back as we are
 
 Nobody said it was easy
 Oh It �s such a shame for us to part
 Nobody said it was easy
 No one ever said it would be so hard
 I �m going back to the start
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 manonski (f)
 
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							| Wonderful by Everclear   hey, aint life wonderful? wonderful, wonderful, wonderful... isnt it wonderfulNow?
 
 I close my eyes when I get too sad
 I think thoughts that I know are bad
 Close my eyes and I count to ten
 Hope its over when I open them
 
 I want the things that I had before
 Like a star wars poster on my bedroom door
 I wish I could count to ten
 Make everything be wonderful again
 
 Hope my mom and I hope my dad
 Will figure out why they get so mad
 Hear them scream, I hear them fight
 They say bad words that make me wanna cry
 
 Close my eyes when I go to bed
 And I dream of angels who make me smile
 I feel better when I hear them say
 Everything will be wonderful someday
 
 Promises mean everything when youre little
 And the worlds so big
 I just dont understand how
 You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
 Tell me everything is wonderful now
 
 Please dont tell me everything is wonderful now
 
 I go to school and I run and play
 I tell the kids that its all okay
 I laugh aloud so my friends wont know
 When the bell rings I just dont wanna go home
 
 Go to my room and I close my eyes
 I make believe that I have a new life
 I dont believe you when you say
 Everything will be wonderful someday
 
 Promises mean everything when youre little
 And the world is so big
 I just dont understand how
 You can smile with all those tears in your eyes
 When you tell me everything is wonderful now
 
 No
 No, I dont wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
 No
 No, I dont wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
 
 I dont wanna hear you say
 That I will understand someday
 No, no, no, no
 I dont wanna hear you say
 You both have grown in a different way
 No, no, no, no
 I dont wanna meet your friends
 And I dont wanna start over again
 I just want my life to be the same
 Just like it used to be
 Some days I hate everything
 I hate everything
 Everyone and everything
 Please dont tell me everything is wonderful now...
 
 I dont wanna hear you tell me everything is wonderful now
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