Learn English with Songs: “Mad World”

Welcome!

Today we are going back to the fabulous 80’s.

Get ready to sing and dance with Tears for Fears. Ok, let’s do this!

1. Read the lyrics
2. Understand the vocabulary
3. Watch the video

Lyrics

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I’m dying
Are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It’s a very, very mad world mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what’s my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I’m dying
Are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It’s a very, very mad world … mad world
Enlarging your world
Mad world

Vocabulary

Familiar – frequently seen, heard, or experienced.

Worn out – too old or damaged from use to be used any longer.

Drown – to die by being underwater too long and unable to breathe.

Sorrow – a feeling of sadness or grief caused especially by the loss of someone or something.

Kinda – slang for “kind of”.

Enlarging – to make (something) larger or to become larger.

Video