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(air swooshing) 00:00
(dark music) 00:06
♪ Life is a waterfall ♪ 00:41
♪ We're one in the river ♪ 00:44
♪ And one again after the fall ♪ 00:45
♪ Swimming through the void, we hear the word ♪ 00:52
♪ We lose ourselves, but we find it all ♪ 00:56
♪ 'Cause we are the ones that want to play ♪ 01:05
♪ Always want to go, but you never want to stay ♪ 01:08
♪ And we are the ones that want to choose ♪ 01:17
♪ Always want to play but you never want to lose ♪ 01:20
♪ Aerials in the sky ♪ 01:35
♪ When you lose small mind, you free your life ♪ 01:41
♪ Life is a waterfall ♪ 01:47
♪ We drink from the river ♪ 01:50
♪ Then we turn around and put up our walls ♪ 01:51
♪ Swimming through the void, we hear the word ♪ 01:59
♪ We lose ourselves, but we find it all ♪ 02:02
♪ 'Cause we are the ones that want to play ♪ 02:11
♪ Always want to go, but you never want to stay ♪ 02:14
♪ And we are the ones that want to choose ♪ 02:23
♪ Always want to play but you never want to lose ♪ 02:26
♪ Oh ♪ 02:32
♪ Aerials in the sky ♪ 02:47
♪ When you lose small mind, you free your life ♪ 02:52
♪ Aerials, so up high ♪ 02:58
♪ When you free your eyes, eternal prize ♪ 03:04
♪ Aerials in the sky ♪ 03:10
♪ When you lose small mind, you free your life ♪ 03:16
♪ Aerials, so up high ♪ 03:22
♪ When you free your eyes, eternal prize ♪ 03:27
♪ Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh ♪ 03:33
♪ Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh ♪ 03:39
♪ Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh ♪ 03:45
♪ Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh ♪ 03:51

Aerials

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Lyrics:

[English]

(air swooshing)

(dark music)

♪ Life is a waterfall ♪

♪ We're one in the river ♪

♪ And one again after the fall ♪

♪ Swimming through the void, we hear the word ♪

♪ We lose ourselves, but we find it all ♪

♪ 'Cause we are the ones that want to play ♪

♪ Always want to go, but you never want to stay ♪

♪ And we are the ones that want to choose ♪

♪ Always want to play but you never want to lose ♪

♪ Aerials in the sky ♪

♪ When you lose small mind, you free your life ♪

♪ Life is a waterfall ♪

♪ We drink from the river ♪

♪ Then we turn around and put up our walls ♪

♪ Swimming through the void, we hear the word ♪

♪ We lose ourselves, but we find it all ♪

♪ 'Cause we are the ones that want to play ♪

♪ Always want to go, but you never want to stay ♪

♪ And we are the ones that want to choose ♪

♪ Always want to play but you never want to lose ♪

♪ Oh ♪

♪ Aerials in the sky ♪

♪ When you lose small mind, you free your life ♪

♪ Aerials, so up high ♪

♪ When you free your eyes, eternal prize ♪

♪ Aerials in the sky ♪

♪ When you lose small mind, you free your life ♪

♪ Aerials, so up high ♪

♪ When you free your eyes, eternal prize ♪

♪ Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh ♪

♪ Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh ♪

♪ Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh ♪

♪ Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh ♪

Vocabulary in this song:

Vocabulary Meanings

waterfall

/ˈwɔːtərfɔːl/

B2
  • noun
  • - a fall of water over the edge of a cliff

river

/ˈrɪvər/

A2
  • noun
  • - a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel

fall

/fɔːl/

A2
  • noun
  • - an act of descending from a higher to a lower position
  • verb
  • - to move downward through the air under the influence of gravity

void

/vɔɪd/

C1
  • noun
  • - a completely empty space

lose

/luːz/

B1
  • verb
  • - to be deprived of or cease to have

find

/faɪnd/

A2
  • verb
  • - to discover something after searching

want

/wɒnt/

A2
  • verb
  • - to desire to have or do something

choose

/tʃuːz/

B1
  • verb
  • - to select from options

play

/pleɪ/

A1
  • verb
  • - to engage in activity for enjoyment

lose

/luːz/

B1
  • verb
  • - to no longer have or retain

high

/haɪ/

A2
  • adjective
  • - at or to a great extent above the ground or sea level

prize

/praɪz/

C1
  • noun
  • - something awarded as a reward for victory or achievement
  • verb
  • - to obtain or win (something, especially a prize)

eternal

/ɪˈtɜːrnəl/

C1
  • adjective
  • - lasting forever; timeless

Grammar:

  • Life is a waterfall.

    ➔ Simple present tense.

    ➔ The sentence uses the simple present tense to express a general truth or fact.

  • We lose ourselves, but we find it all.

    ➔ Compound sentence.

    ➔ This sentence combines two independent clauses with a conjunction 'but'.

  • Always want to go, but you never want to stay.

    ➔ Present simple for habitual actions.

    ➔ The use of 'want' in the present simple indicates habitual actions or desires.

  • When you lose small mind, you free your life.

    ➔ Conditional sentence.

    ➔ This sentence presents a condition that leads to a result, using 'when' to introduce the condition.

  • Aerials in the sky.

    ➔ Noun phrase.

    ➔ This phrase consists of a noun 'Aerials' and a prepositional phrase 'in the sky'.

  • When you free your eyes, eternal prize.

    ➔ Imperative mood.

    ➔ The phrase suggests an action in the imperative mood, implying a command or encouragement.