Learn English with Songs: “Lemon Tree”

Good morning, everyone, how are you?

Today’s lesson is a sing-song lesson. You are going to learn some new English vocabulary with the help of a classic: “Lemon Tree” by Fool’s Garden. Do you know it?

1. Read the lyrics
2. Understand the vocabulary
3. Sing along!

Lyrics

I’m sitting here in the boring room
It’s just another rainy Sunday afternoon
I’m wasting my time
I got nothing to do
I’m hanging around
I’m waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder

I’m driving around in my car
I’m driving too fast
I’m driving too far
I’d like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely
I’m waiting for you
But nothing ever happens and I wonder

I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me ’bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
I’m turning my head up and down
I’m turning turning turning turning turning around
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree

I’m sitting here
I miss the power
I’d like to go out taking a shower
But there’s a heavy cloud inside my head
I feel so tired
Put myself into bed
While nothing ever happens and I wonder

Isolation is not good for me
Isolation I don’t want to sit on the lemon-tree

I’m steppin’ around in the desert of joy
Baby anyhow I’ll get another toy
And everything will happen and you wonder

I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me ’bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just another lemon-tree
I’m turning my head up and down
I’m turning turning turning turning turning around
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon-tree
And I wonder, wonder

I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me ’bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see, and all that I can see, and all that I can see
Is just a yellow lemon-tree

Vocabulary

Boring – dull and uninteresting : causing boredom.

Wasting my time – to use (something or someone) in a way that does not produce a valuable result or effect :to fail to use (something or someone) in an appropriate or effective way. In this case, time.

Isolation – the state of being in a place or situation that is separate from others : the condition of being isolated.

Desert – a place or area that does not have something interesting or important.

Joy – a feeling of great happiness.

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