"If I Were Sorry"

Id crawl through the desert on my hands

and knees
Rehearsin my pretty please
Climb the highest mountain
If I were sorry

if I were sorry

Shout it from the top

Swim under water until my lungs exploded
Walk into the fire
If I were sorry
Id run a thousand miles
Wouldnt stop until I dropped
Wouldnt take a break to breathe until I got
close
Enough
Then Id do it all again
If I really had the chance
But I know deep inside for you its just
another
dance
If I were sorry
Id give you all the glory
if I were sorry
If I were sorry
it would be a different story
If I were sorry
if I were sorry oh
Id hold my breath till my face turned blue
Id rob a bank and the post office too
Swim across the ocean
If I were sorry
Id take a vow of silence
I wouldnt say a single word
Until you really heard
If I were sorry
Id run a thousand miles
Wouldnt stop until I dropped
Wouldnt take the break to breathe
Until I got close enough
If I were sorry
Id give you all the glory

If I were sorry
it would be a different story
if I were sorry oh
Now did you ever realise
that your mistake had a prize
oh you threw it all away
cause youre the devil in disguise
Now would you ever realise
the consequences of your lies
and would you save the falling tear or act
as if
theres nothing there
If I were sorry
if I were sorry
If I were sorry
if I were sorry
If I were sorry
Id take a vow of silence
I wouldnt say a single word
if I were sorry
If I were sorry
Id be on my hands and knees
Beggin' pretty please
if I were sorry
but Im not sorry, no

Un unreal conditional sentence expresses events that are hypothetical or unreal.

Some if clauses use were even if the pronoun is singular. In these statements, the writer is
specifying an event is impossible in the present.
In addition, unreal conditional if clauses refer to event in the present, as in If I were you, I would
not do this. In truth, the speaker is telling their audience I am not you.
Consider the following sentences:

If he were here right now, he would help us.

In this sentence, the speaker is really saying He is not here right now.

Answer the questions

Is the singer sorry? ______________________
What would he do if he were sorry? Find five examples.
He would ___________________________________________________.
He would ___________________________________________________.
He would ___________________________________________________.
He would ___________________________________________________.
He would ___________________________________________________.
2. Complete
a) I would call him and apologize. I ___________ do that If I _______________ (be) you. But
Im not you
b) What would you ____________ (say) if I _____________ (tell) a secret?
c) If I _______________(be) offered a job in USA, I ________________ (not take.) Its too far.
d) If I _______________ (wake) up and ____________ (see) a snake in my room, I
______________ (probably/run) not just out of my room, but out of the house!

3. Rewrite the sentences using the second conditional.

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2
3
4

I dont have his phone number. I cant call him.

If I _______________________________________________________________
I feel terrible I cant go to school.
I _________________________________________________________________
My parents dont like him because he looks so strange.
If he _____________________________________________________________
He doesnt get the good marks because he is lazy.
He _______________________________________________________________