6C  Song  Lemon Tree

3 41    Listen and circle the right words in the pair.

Lemon Tree
I’m sitting here in a 1 room 1  boring / beautiful
It’s just another 2
Sunday afternoon 2  sunny / _______
rainy
I’m wasting my time, I got nothing to do
I’m hanging around, I’m 3 for you 3  looking / waiting
_____
But nothing ever happens – and I wonder.

I’m driving around in my car,

I’m driving too 4 , I’m driving too far. 4  fast
__ / slowly
I’d like to change my point of view
I feel so lonely, I’m waiting for you
But nothing ever 5 – and I wonder. 5  changes / happens
______
Chorus
I wonder how, I wonder 6 6  where /____
why
7
you told me about the 7  Today / Yesterday
_______
blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon tree
I’m turning my 8 up and down 8  head
__ / eyes
I’m turning, turning, turning, turning, turning around
And all that I can see is just another lemon tree.

I’m 9 here, I miss the power 9  sitting / standing

____
I’d like to go out, and take in a shower
But there’s a heavy cloud inside my head
I feel so 10 , put myself into bed 10  sad / tired
____
Where nothing ever happens – and I wonder.

Isolation is not 11 for me 11  good / easy

Isolation, I don’t want to sit on a lemon tree _____
I’m stepping around in the desert of joy
Baby anyhow I’ll get another toy
And everything will happen – and you wonder.

Chorus
I wonder 12 , I wonder why 12  how / who
____
Yesterday you told me about
the blue blue 13 13  sea / ___
sky
And all that I can see, and all that I can see
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon tree.

Song facts
Lemon Tree was a 1996 hit in many European
countries for the German band Fool’s Garden.
Groups in South Korea have also recorded
the song.
Glossary
wasting my time = not doing anything interesting
hanging around = waiting
wonder verb = ask myself questions
point of view = the way I think
lonely = sad because you are not with people
I miss the power = I don’t feel in control
there’s a heavy cloud inside my head = I can’t think because I’m sad
isolation = not being with people
desert of joy = unhappy place

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