Learn English with Songs: “Summertime Sadness”

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Ok, so a big part of the world is slowly moving towards the heat and fun of summer, but for the other half… winter is coming. And so this song is for the northern hemisphere today, to say goodbye to the summertime. Also, because isn’t it an amazing song?

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

Lyrics

Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime sadness
I just wanted you to know
That, baby, you’re the best

I got my red dress on tonight
Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight
Done my hair up real big beauty queen style
High heels off, I’m feeling alive

Oh, my God, I feel it in the air
Telephone wires above are sizzling like a snare
Honey, I’m on fire, I feel it everywhere
Nothing scares me anymore

(1, 2, 3, 4)

Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime sadness
I just wanted you to know
That, baby, you’re the best

I’ve got that summertime, summertime sadness
S-s-summertime, summertime sadness
Got that summertime, summertime sadness
Oh, oh oh oh

I’m feelin’ electric tonight
Cruising down the coast goin’ ’bout 99
Got my bad baby by my heavenly side
I know if I go, I’ll die happy tonight

Oh, my God, I feel it in the air
Telephone wires above are sizzling like a snare
Honey, I’m on fire, I feel it everywhere
Nothing scares me anymore

(1, 2, 3, 4)

Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime sadness
I just wanted you to know
That, baby, you’re the best

I’ve got that summertime, summertime sadness
S-s-summertime, summertime sadness
Got that summertime, summertime sadness
Oh, oh oh oh

I think I’ll miss you forever
Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky
Later’s better than never
Even if you’re gone I’m gonna drive (drive, drive)

I’ve got that summertime, summertime sadness
S-s-summertime, summertime sadness
Got that summertime, summertime sadness
Oh, oh oh oh

Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime sadness
I just wanted you to know
That, baby, you’re the best

I’ve got that summertime, summertime sadness
S-s-summertime, summertime sadness
Got that summertime, summertime sadness
Oh, oh oh oh

Vocabulary

Summertime – the season of summer.

Pale – light in color.

Beauty queen style – the hairstyle beauty queen’s are famous for: big.

Wires – a thin, flexible thread of metal.

Snare – a device that has a loop (called a noose) which gets smaller when the end of it is pulled and that is used to catch animals : a kind of trap.

Cruising – to move along at a steady speed.

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