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Welcome
To My Life No
you don't know what it's like CHORUS: Do
you wanna be somebody else? No you
don't know what it's like No one ever lied straight to your
face (CHORUS2x) Welcome
to my life |
Exercises
By Tania Cuevas from México (Cuernavaca)
1. Match the words to their correct definition.
| ____
To be stuck ____ To run away ____ To stab someone in the back ____ To break down ____ To fake a smile ____ To lock yourself in ____ To kick someone when they're down ____ To be on the edge ____ To turn up ____ To be left out | a) To lose control of your feelings and start crying. b) To increase the sound. c) To continue to hurt someone when they are already defeated. d) Unable to move or be moved. e) To be nervous, excited or bad tempered. f) Not included or mentioned in something. g) To escape h) To prevent someone from entering your room by locking the door. i) To give a false, not genuine smile. j) To betray someone who trusts you |
2. Listen to the song and fill in the spaces with the missing words in the box and some words from the previous exercise.
| all right, deep, desperate, edge, ever (2), gave, had, hears, hurt, lost, place, pushed around, over, sick (2), somebody, straight, stupid, understands |
IST PART
Do you _____ feel like ____________ ________?
Do you _____
feel out of ________?
Like __________ you just don't belong
And no one _______________
you
Do you ever wanna ______ _________?
Do you _______ ____________ in your
room?
With the radio on __________ ____ so loud
That no one ________ you
screaming
No you don't know what it's like
When nothing feels _________
You
don't know what it's like
To be like me
CHORUS
To
be _______
To feel ________
To be _______ in the dark
To be _______ when
you're down
To feel like you've been _________
To be on the _________ of
__________
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome
to my life
2ND PART
Do you wanna be _______ else?
Are you
_______ of feeling so _______?
Are you ________ to find something more?
Before
your life is ______
Are you _______ inside a world you hate?
Are you ________
of everyone around?
With their big _______ smiles and _______ lies
While
_______ inside you're bleeding
No you don't know what it's like
When
nothing feels _________
You don't know what it's like
To be like me
CHORUS
To
be _______
To feel ________
To be _______ in the dark
To be _______ when
you're down
To feel like you've been _________
To be on the _________ of
__________
And no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome
to my life
3RD PART
No one ever lied __________ to your face
And
no one ever ____________ you in the _______
You might think I'm happy but I'm
not gonna be okay
Everybody always _______ you what you wanted
You never
______ to work it was always there
You don't know what it's like, what it's
like
CHORUS
To be _______
To
feel ________
To be _______ in the dark
To be _______ when you're down
To
feel like you've been _________
To be on the _________ of __________
And
no one's there to save you
No you don't know what it's like
Welcome to
my life
Welcome to my life
Welcome to my life
3. Answer the following questions.
a) Do you think this is a happy song? Why?
b)
Do you ever feel like breaking down? What makes you feel like that?
c) Do you
ever feel out of place? What makes you feel like that?
d) Do you ever want
to run away? Why? Where do you want to go?
e) Do you want to be somebody else?
Why? Who would you like to be?
4. Now imagine that a friend of yours is the one who feels like the guy singing this song. Write him/her a cheering letter to make him/her feel less sad.
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