Learn English with Songs – Scary Monsters by David Bowie

Welcome friend!

Today we are putting the fun back into learning English vocabulary with David Bowie’s “Scary Monsters”. It’s such a great song! We love it and hope you do too!

Remember, the most important part is the singing: try to sing along with Bowie to improve your pronunciation!

Here’s what you have to do:

1. Read the lyrics
2. Understand the vocabulary
3. SING!

Lyrics

She had an horror of rooms
she was tired
you can’t hide beat
When I looked in her eyes they were blue but nobody home

She could’ve been a killer
if she didn’t walk the way she do,
and she do
She opened strange doors
that we’d never close again

She began to wail jealousies scream
Waiting at the light know what I mean

Scary monsters, super creeps
Keep me running, running scared

She asked me to stay
and I stole her room
She asked for my love
and I gave her a dangerous mind
Now she’s stupid in the street
and she can’t socialise
Well I love the little girl
and I’ll love her till the day she dies

She wails
Jimmy’s guitar sound
jealousies scream
Waiting at the light know what I mean

Vocabulary

Horror – a very strong feeling of fear, dread, and shock.

Killer – a person or thing that kills someone or something.

Wail – to make a loud, long cry of sadness or pain.

Jealousies – an unhappy or angry feeling of wanting to have what someone else has.

Scary – causing fear.

Creeps – a strange person who you strongly dislike.

Music Video

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