Song of the Week # 7: John Legend - All of Me

Thanks to Valerio for choosing this week's track, All Of Me the 2013 single by John Legend. This piano led ballad was released last summer and features on Legend's album, Love In The Future. Think about how the song could help you with your English - look at the vocabulary (especially fixed expressions, metaphors, idioms and collocations), the pronunciation features (rhythm and rhyme), the meaning, importance, background to the song or what the song means to you personally.

This song is particularly interesting for its use of phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions. 




[Verse]
What would I do without your smart mouth
Drawing me in, and you kicking me out
You got my head spinning, no kidding, I can't pin you down
What's going on in that beautiful mind
I'm on your magical mystery ride
And I'm so dizzy, don't know what hit me, but I'll be alright

[Bridge]
My head's underwater
But I'm breathing fine
You're crazy and I'm out of my mind

[Chorus]
'Cause all of me
Loves all of you
Love your curves and all your edges
All your perfect imperfections
Give your all to me
I'll give my all to you
You're my end and my beginning
Even when I lose I'm winning
Cause I give you all of me
And you give me all of you, oh

[Verse]
How many times do I have to tell you
Even when you're crying you're beautiful too
The world is beating you down, I'm around through every mood
You're my downfall, you're my muse
My worst distraction, my rhythm and blues
I can't stop singing, it's ringing in my head for you

[Bridge]
My head's underwater
But I'm breathing fine
You're crazy and I'm out of my mind

[Chorus]
'Cause all of me
Loves all of you
Love your curves and all your edges
All your perfect imperfections
Give your all to me
I'll give my all to you
You're my end and my beginning
Even when I lose I'm winning
Cause I give you all of me
And you give me all of you, oh
Give me all of you, oh oh

[Bridge]
Cards on the table, we're both showing hearts
Risking it all though it's hard

[Chorus]
Cause all of me
Loves all of you
Love your curves and all your edges
All your perfect imperfections
Give your all to me
I'll give my all to you
You're my end and my beginning
Even when I lose I'm winning
Cause I give you all of me
And you give me all of you

I give you all of me
And you give me all, of you, oh oh oh.

Songwriters
Gad, Toby / Legend, John

Published by
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC

Read more: All of Me Lyrics - John Legend | MetroLyrics 

Song of the Week #6 - Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie

Thanks to Stefano for choosing this week's track, Under Pressure the 1981 single by Queen & David Bowie. The song was a number one hit all over the world and features on Queen's album Hot Space (1982) and David Bowie's greatest hits album, The Singles Collection. Think about how the song could help you with your English - look at the vocabulary (especially fixed expressions, metaphors, idioms and collocations), the pronunciation features (rhythm and rhyme), the meaning, importance, background to the song or what the song means to you personally.

Some things to think about:

• What does the multi-word verb to come up with mean?
• What is the difference between the verbs slash and torn?
• What is the difference in meaning between to see/watch someone do something and to see/watch someone doing something?

Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man ask for
Under pressure that brings a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets

It's the terror of knowing
What the world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming 'Let me out'
Pray tomorrow gets me higher
Pressure on people people on streets

Chippin' around - kick my brains around the floor

These are the days it never rains but it pours

People on streets 

People on streets 

It's the terror of knowing

What this world is about

Watching some good friends

Screaming 'Let me out'

Pray tomorrow - gets me higher higher high

Pressure on people people on streets

Turned away from it all like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work

Keep coming up with love but it's so slashed and torn

Why - why - why?

Love love love love love

Insanity laughs under pressure we're breaking

Can't we give ourselves one more chance

Why can't we give love that one more chance

Why can't we give love give love give love give love

Give love give love give love give love give love

'Cause love's such an old fashioned word

And love dares you to care for

The people on the (People on streets) edge of the night

And loves (People on streets) dares you to change our way of

     Caring about ourselves

     This is our last dance

     This is our last dance

     This is ourselves

     Under pressure

     Under pressure

     Pressure

Song of the Week #5 - Genesis - Dancing with the Moonlit Knight

Thanks to Luigi for stepping in for Valerio and choosing this week's track, Dancing With The Moonlit Knight from the album, Selling England By The Pound by Genesis. The album was released in 1973 when Peter Gabriel was still in the band. Think about how the song could help you with your English - look at the vocabulary (especially fixed expressions, metaphors, idioms and collocations - note the homophone in the title), the pronunciation (rhythm and rhyme), the meaning, importance, background to the song or what the song means to you personally.



"Can you tell me where my country lies?"

Said the unifaun to his true love's eyes

"It lies with me", cried the Queen of Maybe

For her merchandise, he traded in his prize


"Paper late", cried a voice in the crowd

"Old man dies" the note he left was signed 'Old Father Thames'

It seems he's drowned

Selling England by the pound


Citizens of Hope and Glory

Time goes by it's "the time of your life"

Easy now, sit you down

Chewing through your Wimpy dreams

They eat without a sound

Digesting England by the pound


Young man says, "You are what you eat", eat well

Old man says, "You are what you wear", wear well

You know what you are, you don't give a damn

Bursting your belt that is your homemade sham


The Captain leads his dance right on through the night

Join the dance

Follow on! Till the Grail sun sets in the mold.

Follow on! Till the gold is cold

Dancing out with the moonlit knight

Knights of the Green Shield stamp and shout


There's a fat old lady outside the saloon

Laying out the credit cards she plays Fortune

The deck is uneven right from the start

And all of their hands are playing apart


The Captain leads his dance right on through the night

Join the dance

Follow on! Till the Grail sun sets in the mold

You're the show

Off we go with, you play the hobbyhorse

I'll play the fool, we'll tease the bull

Ringing round and loud, loud and round


Follow on! Till the Grail sun sets in the mold

Follow on! Till the gold is cold

Dancing out with the moonlit knight

Knights of the Green Shield stamp and shout



Songwriters

Banks, Anthony / Collins, Phil / Gabriel, Peter / Hackett, Steven



Published by

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing







Read more: Genesis - Dancing With The Moonlit Knight Lyrics | MetroLyrics

Song of the Week #4 - No Surprises, Radiohead

Thanks to Andrea for choosing this week's track, No Surprises from the 1997 album, OK Computer by Radiohead, which is ranked 162nd in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the Top 500 albums of all time. Think about how the song could help you with your English - look at the vocabulary (especially fixed expressions, metaphors, idioms and collocations), the pronunciation (rhythm and rhyme), the meaning, importance, background to the song or what the song means to you personally.







A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal

You look so tired and unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us
I'll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Silent, silent

This is my final fit, my final bellyache with

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises please

Such a pretty house, such a pretty garden

No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises please (let me out of here)

Song of the Week #3: "Yellow" Coldplay

Thanks to Lavinia for choosing this week's track, Yellow from the 2000 release, Parachutes. Think about how the song could help you with your English - look at the vocabulary (especially fixed expressions, metaphors, idioms and collocations), the pronunciation (rhythm and rhyme), the meaning, importance, background to the song or what the song means to you personally.

Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And everything you do
Yeah they were all yellow

I came along
I wrote a song for you
And all the things you do
And it was called yellow

So then I took my turn
Oh what a thing to have done
And it was all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
You know you know I love you so
You know I love you so

I swam across
I jumped across for you
Oh what a thing to do

Cause you were all yellow
I drew a line
I drew a line for you
Oh what a thing to do
And it was all yellow

Your skin
Oh yeah your skin and bones
Turn into something beautiful
And you know
For you I'd bleed myself dry
For you I'd bleed myself dry

It's true
Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine for
Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine for you
Look how they shine

Look at the stars
Look how they shine for you
And all the things that you do

Songwriters: BERRYMAN, GUY RUPERT / BUCKLAND, JONATHAN MARK / CHAMPION, WILLIAM / MARTIN, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY JOHN
Yellow lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Song of the Week #2 "Angie" - The Rolling Stones

Martina has selected Angie by the Rolling Stones to discuss in next week's lesson (8th October).
Angie was released in 1973 and went to No. 1 in the US and top 5 in the UK. The song features on the album Goat's Head Soup, which is now generally considered to have marked the end of the Stones' "golden age".

Goats Head Soup

Think about how the song could help you with your English - look at the vocabulary (especially fixed expressions, metaphors, idioms and collocations), the pronunciation (rhythm and rhyme), the meaning, importance, background to the song or what the song means to you personally.



Angie, Angie, 
when will those clouds all disappear?
Angie, Angie, 
where will it lead us from here?
With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
But Angie, Angie, 
you can't say we never tried
Angie, you're beautiful, 
but ain't it time we said good-bye?
Angie, I still love you, 
remember all those nights we cried?
All the dreams we held so close seemed to all go up in smoke
Let me whisper in your ear:
Angie, Angie, where will it lead us from here?
Oh, Angie, don't you weep, all your kisses still taste sweet
I hate that sadness in your eyes
But Angie, Angie, ain't it time we said good-bye?
With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats
You can't say we're satisfied
But Angie, I still love you, baby
Ev'rywhere I look I see your eyes
There ain't a woman that comes close to you
Come on Baby, dry your eyes
But Angie, Angie, ain't it good to be alive?
Angie, Angie, they can't say we never tried
Read more at http://www.songlyrics.com/the-rolling-stones/angie-lyrics/#Qe68OVh1oX3QMDHl.99