WILCO - YOU ARE MY FACE

I remember my mother’s

Sister’s husband’s brother

Working in the goldmine ---- -----

Filling in for sunshine

Filing into ----- lines

Of ordinary --------

The door screams I hate you

Hate you hanging around my ---- ------

Why is there no breeze

No currency of ------

No current through the water wire

No feelings I can see

I trust no emotion

I believe in ----------

But I've turned to rust as we've discussed

Though I must have let you down

too many times

In the ---- and the ----

I have no idea how this happens

All of my ----- have been overthrown

Happenstance has changed my plans

So many times my heart has been --------

Now everybody’s feeling all alone

Can’t tell you who I am

When everybody’s feeling all alone

Can’t tell you who I am

I am looking --------

Toward the shadows tracing bones

Our faces ------- and sewing

Our houses hemmed into homes

Trying to be thankful

Our ------- fit into phones

And our voices lift so easily

A gift given accidentally

When we’re not sure

We’re not alone

Great MODALS and CONDITIONALS exercise

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George Orwell: Politics and the English Language

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Six rules of thumb for writing well.

1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never us a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.                     

James Taylor - "Fire & Rain"

Fire & Rain

Just yesterday morning they let me know you ---- -----,

Susanne the ------ they made put an ----- to you

I -------- out this morning and I wrote down this song

I just can't remember who to send it to

I've seen fire and I've seen rain

I've seen ------ ------ that I thought would never end

I've seen ------ ------ when I could not find a friend

But I always thought that I'd see you again

Won't you look down upon me, Jesus

You've got to ------- me make a stand

You've just got to see me -------- another day

My body's aching and my ---- is at ----

And I won't make it any other way

Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain

I've seen ----- ---- that I thought would never end

I've seen ------ ----- when I could not find a friend

But I always thought that I'd see you again

Been ------- my mind to an easy time my back turned towards the sun

Lord knows when the cold wind blows it'll turn your head around

Well, there's hours of time on the -------- ------ to talk about things

to come

Sweet dreams and ------ --------- in pieces on the ground

Oh, I've seen fire and I've seen rain

I've seen ----- ----that I thought would never end

I've seen ----- ----- when I could not find a friend

But I always thought that I'd see you, baby, one more time again, now

Thought I'd see you one more time again

There's just a --- ------ coming my way this time around, now

Thought I'd see you, thought I'd see you fire and rain, now

U2 - With Or Without You

U2-With or Without you

SEE THE--------- SET IN YOUR EYES.

SEE THE----------- TWIST IN YOUR SIDE.

I ------------- FOR YOU.

SLEIGHT OF HAND AND ----------- OF FATE,

ON A BED OF------------ SHE MAKES ME WAIT,

AND I WAIT WITHOUT YOU.

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU,

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU.

THROUGH THE STORM WE REACH THE ----------.

YOU GIVE IT ALL BUT I WANT MORE.

AND I´M WAITING FOR YOU.

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU,

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU.

I CAN´T LIVE

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU.

AND YOU----------- YOURSELF AWAY,

AND YOU ----------YOURSELF AWAY,

AND YOU GIVE,

AND YOU GIVE,

AND YOU----------- YOURSELF AWAY.

MY----------- ARE TIED.

MY BODY BRUISED, SHE´S GOT ME WITH

NOTHING TO--------- AND

NOTHING LEFT TO -------------.

AND YOU --------- YOURSELF AWAY,

AND YOU---------- YOURSELF AWAY,

AND YOU GIVE,

AND YOU GIVE,

AND YOU---------- YOURSELF AWAY.

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU (times 3)

John Mayer - Room For Squares - 07 83

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I've these dreams of

----------- home

Home where it used to be

And everything is

As it was

---------- in front of me

Here I stand

6 feet ---------

romanticizing years ago

but it's a bitter sweet feeling hearing

"Wrapped Around Your Finger" on the radio

and these days

I wish I was 6 again

Oh make me a ----- --------

I wanna be Superman

Oh, if only my life was more like 1983

all these things would be more like they

were at the start of me

had it made in 83

thinking bout my ----------- Ben

I miss him every day

He looks just like his brother John

But on an 18 month delay

Here I stand

6 feet----------

and ---------- cause I'm scared as hell

kind of like my life is like a sequel to a movie

where the actor's names have changed

oh well

well these days

I wish I was 6 again

Oh make me a ------ ---------

I wanna be Superman

Oh, if only my life was more like 1983

all these things would be more like they

were at the start of me

If my life was more like 1983

plot a course to the source of the

purest little part of me

and most my memories

have escaped me

or ----------- themselves within ---------

if heaven's all we want it to be

send your ---------- to me

care of 1983

you can paint that house a ---------- of colors

rip out the --------------

replace the -------------- but

that's my plastic in the dirt

whatever happened to my

whatever happened to my

whatever happened to my ---------------

when came the day that it got

thrown away and don't you think I should have had some say

in that decision

If only my life (repeated till fade)

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

Nevermore