Music for Vocabulary- Full Steam- David Grey and Annie Lennox

                       Good day world of wonder and perennial splendour!

I trust that the day has met you with a smile? I have been delving into some music of late, and have decided it a matter of course to share a favourite song of mine,with you- so as to help you on the journey to fluency. 

We all know that vocabulary acquisition is a never-ending road- so, why not try learning more with music as a medium?

A sturdy arsenal of vocabulary is a necessary commodity. Learning both positive and positively awful vocabulary is essential.

Namaste

Teacher B

VOCABULARY LIST:

Valhalla- Mythology -The hall in which Odin received the souls of slain heroes. ( Heaven.)

Forlorn- alone/unhappy/ not cared for.

Adrift- If a person is adrift, they do not have a clear purpose in life

Bullied-  to hurt or frighten someone who is smaller or less powerful than you

Suckered-to persuade someone to do something by deceiving them

Pimp- a man who controls prostitutes, especially by finding customers for them, and takes some of the money that they earn

Patronized/ to patronize someone-to speak to or behave towards someone as if they are stupid or not important

Tawdry-looking bright and attractive but in fact cheap and of low quality

wringing hands-to hold something tightly with both hands and twist it by turning your hands in opposite directions

cursing-to swear/expletives- to say rude words in anger.i.e. shit

Idiomatic meanings:

It breaks my heart - it makes me sad

Each turn of the wheel/the wheel turns/the wheel is turning - something that you say which means a process is starting to happen/something is happening

We have dreamed about it - we have wanted this/ deep desire

Golden age - A period of great peace, prosperity, and happiness.

All our lives we've dreamed about it

Just to find that it was never real

This sure ain't no great Valhalla

Coming closer each turn of the wheel

Forlorn, adrift on seas of beige

In this our Golden Age

Even in our darkest hour

Never thought that it could get so bad

Bullied, suckered, pimped and patronised

Every day your tawdry little lives

So loose your head

And step within

The silence deafening

Now you saw it coming

And I saw it coming

We all saw it coming

But we still bought it

Now you saw it coming

And I saw it coming but still

Running full steam ahead

In and out of consciousness

It breaks my heart to see you like this

Crying, wringing hands and cursing fate

Always so little far too late

It's 3am I'm wide awake

There's still one call to make

Now you saw it coming

And I saw it coming

We all saw it coming

But we still bought it

Now you saw it coming

And I saw it coming

We all saw it coming

But we still bought it

Now you saw it coming

And I saw it coming

But still running full steam

Now you saw it coming

And I saw it coming but still

Running full steam

Now you

And I

We all saw it coming

But we still bought it

Now you

And I

We all saw it coming

But we still bought it