Learn English with Songs – Skinny Genes by Eliza Doolittle

Put your hands together, it’s another ABA English blog post!

How are you today?

We hope you want to sing a little because we are going to be learning some new vocabulary and then singing with Eliza Doolittle and her song “Skinny genes”.

Ready?

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

Lyrics

I really don’t like your point of view
I know you’ll never change
Stinging me with your attitude
I’ve got the mind to walk away

I really don’t like your arrogance
Or your policies
You’re ninety-nine percent an embarrassment
Of just wrong qualities

I don’t mind it when you [whistles]
Brings out the best in me when you [whistles]
Show your expertise
When the night always ends with a fight I’m excited
That you’ll wind up next to me
I like it when you [whistles]
Can I have some please of that [whistles]
Satisfy my needs
Sometimes I fake that I hate you and make up
So you wind up next to me

I really don’t like your skinny jeans
So take them off for me
Show me what you’ve got underneath
So we can do this properly

I really don’t like the way you smile
When you think you’re right
But I will forgive you, the yoke is in the middle
And we’re chewing through the wire

I dreamt that you were on a train
you were leaving, you were leaving
It made me think of what I’d miss
Do you believe it, you believe it

I don’t mind it when you [whistles]
Brings out the best in me when you [whistles]
Show your expertise
When the night always ends with a fight I’m excited
That you’ll wind up next to me

I like it when you [whistles]
Can I have some please of that [whistles]
Take off your skinny jeans
Sometimes I fake that I hate you and make up
So you wind up next to me

I dreamed that you were on a train
And you were leaving, you were leaving

Vocabulary

Point of view – opinion.

Stinging – to cause (someone) to feel emotional or mental pain.

I’ve got the mind to… – I think I might…

Arrogance – an insulting way of thinking or behaving that comes from believing that you are better, smarter, or more important than other people.

Policies – an officially accepted set of rules or ideas about what should be done.

Whistles – a high and loud sound made by forcing air through your lips or teeth.

Expertise – special skill or knowledge : the skill or knowledge an expert has.

Wind up – end up.

Fake – not true or real.

Hate – a very strong feeling of dislike.

Make up – to become friendly again after being angry.

Underneath – under something.

Yoke –  something that causes people to be treated cruelly and unfairly especially by taking away their freedom.

Music video