Assignment 6: Find an English song that interests you and post its lyrics, audio file & video file to your blogs. Write your comments and the words that you learn from the song.
Plain White T's-"The Giving Tree"No shade to crawl in underneath
I got scars from a pocket knife
Where you carved your heart into me
If all you wanted was love
Why would you use me up
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
I lie in the dead of night and I wonder
Whose covers you're between
And it's sad laying in his bed
You feel hollow, so you crawl home back to me
If all you wanted was love
Why would you use me up
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
Well, I see a trail that starts
A line of broken hearts behind you
That lead you back to me
The once sad and lonely fool
With nothing left but roots to show, oh
If all you wanted was love
Why would you use me up
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
Notes
Why would you use me up
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
Well, I see a trail that starts
A line of broken hearts behind you
That lead you back to me
The once sad and lonely fool
With nothing left but roots to show, oh
If all you wanted was love
Why would you use me up
Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away
When all I wanted to be was your giving tree
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?
Notes
1. crawl (v.)to move forward on your hands and knees, with your body close to the ground.
e.g.She crawled under the fence.
e.g.She crawled under the fence.
2. underneath (n.)under or below something else.
3. use up (phr.)to use all of something so that there is none left.
e.g.She used up the chicken bones to make soup.
e.g.There's a crack on the underneath of the bowl.
3. use up (phr.)to use all of something so that there is none left.
e.g.She used up the chicken bones to make soup.
4. hollow (adj.)having a hole or empty space inside.
e.g.The words he spoke sounded hollow and false.
e.g.The words he spoke sounded hollow and false.
5. trail (n.)a long line or series of marks that is left by somebody.
e.g.The wounded animal left a trail of blood behind it.
e.g.The wounded animal left a trail of blood behind it.
This song is based on the book "the giving tree"by Shel Silverstein. It is a story about a tree giving all she has to a boy. No matter what the boy want, the tree will give him without hesitation to make him happy. Every time the boy visits the tree, he takes something from the tree. Finally, the tree gives almost everything she has to the boy, and she has a stump left. I think it is a touching story because it lets people associate of maternal love. Though the boy grow up and seldom come to the tree, she is still love him, not for anything, just out of selfless love. The tree represents as mother, giving and receiving with not expectation of return.
