WHITE FLAG - DIDO

 

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Telma 9 de enero de 2013 05:29

 

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DIDO
 

Live at Brixton Academy

 

"White Flag"

 

 

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LYRICS

I know you think that I shouldn't still love you,
Or tell you that.
But if I didn't say it, well I'd still have felt it
where's the sense in that?

I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder
Or return to where we were

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I know I left too much mess and
destruction to come back again
And I caused nothing but trouble
I understand if you can't talk to me again
And if you live by the rules of "it's over"
then I'm sure that that makes sense

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

And when we meet
Which I'm sure we will
All that was there
Will be there still
I'll let it pass
And hold my tongue
And you will think
That I've moved on....

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

 

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LYRICS

I know you think that I shouldn't still love you,
Or tell you that.
But if I didn't say it, well I'd still have felt it
where's the sense in that?

I promise I'm not trying to make your life harder
Or return to where we were

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I know I left too much mess and
destruction to come back again
And I caused nothing but trouble
I understand if you can't talk to me again
And if you live by the rules of "it's over"
then I'm sure that that makes sense

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

And when we meet
Which I'm sure we will
All that was there
Will be there still
I'll let it pass
And hold my tongue
And you will think
That I've moved on....

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

I will go down with this ship
And I won't put my hands up and surrender
There will be no white flag above my door
I'm in love and always will be

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VOCABULARY

PRONUNCIATION

GRAMMAR

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Shouldn´t :  I shouldn't still love you

·  We use should and shouldn't to give advice or to talk about what we think is right or wrong.

-       You should means something like I think it is a good idea for you to do it.

-      You shouldn't means something like I think it is a bad idea for you to do it.

-      Should is used to express the opinion of a speaker and often follows I think or I don't think.

 

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I'd still have felt:

 

Could have, would have, should have - modals of lost opportunity

 

 

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We can use 'should have' to talk about past events that did not happen.

·         I should have let her know what was happening but I forgot.

·         He should have sent everybody a reminder by email.

·         They should have remembered that their guests don't eat pork.

We can also use 'should have' to speculate about events that may or may not have happened.

·         She should have got the letter this morning. I expect she'll give us a call about it later.

·         He should have arrived at his office by now. Let's try ringing him.

·         They should have all read that first email by this stage. It's time to send the next one.

 

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harder : Comparative of: hard - harder - the hardest

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go down with this ship: (of a ship or aircraft) sink or crash: he saw eleven B-17s go down

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won't put my hands up

Use “will/won’t” for promises:

 I‘ll send you an e-mail.

I won’t tell anyone your secret.

He‘ll pay you back tomorrow.

We won’t forget your birthday.

Use “will/won’t” or “going to” for predictions or statements about the future:

    My company‘s going to move its headquarters overseas next year.

    Your wife will love those flowers – they’re beautiful!

    The economy isn’t going to improve much this year.

    He won’t pass the test. He hasn’t studied at all.

 

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Surrender

If you surrender, you stop fighting or resisting someone and agree that you have been beaten. 

abandon, give up, renounce.

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There will be no white flag

It it the future of “there is/are”

FLAG:

noun-countable:  A flag is a piece of cloth which can be attached to a pole and which is used as a sign, signal, or symbol of something, especially of a particular country.

The Marines climbed to the roof of the embassy building to raise the American flag..., They had raised the white flag in surrender.

 

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above my door : On top of my door.

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too much mess :  a state of confusion or untidiness.

Too much disorder, too much confusion, too much chaos.

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to come back : to return to reality from a fantasy or daydream.

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Nothing but trouble: Synonyms - just, only, simply.

 

trouble : a state or condition of mental distress or anxiety, pain.

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if you can't talk :

I understand if you can't talk to me again

(this is a sentence from the song “White Flag” )

 

Zero Conditional

 

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  (English Grammar)

 

Conditionals - zero & first conditionals  

 

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that makes sense :  To be reasonable or understandable.

To be intelligible, justifiable, or practicable.

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when we meet :

-      go to a place and wait there for a person to arrive:

Stuart met us off the boat

 

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Which I'm sure we will:     without doubt; certainly

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I'll let it pass           I´ll allow it to pass.

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hold my tongue:  I´ll control my tongue

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I've moved on:

I´ve progressed – I´ve put a difficult experience behind one and progress mentally or emotionally

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 - DIDO - White Flag with Lyrics

 

 

 

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COMMENTS ABOUT THE MEANING OF DIDO´S SONG “WHITE FLAG”.

Britain's singer / songwriter Dido recorded ``White Flag'' on her ``Life for Rent'' album which was released in September 2003. The biggest hit of her career, it sold one million copies in five days on its way to total sales of over five million, making it the fastest selling album by a female artist.

The song was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 2004 Grammy Awards, but lost out to Christina Aguilera for ``Beautiful.''

This song is clearly about someone who is still hung up on an ex partner of theirs.

I will go down with this ship,

And I won't put my hands up and surrender

There will be no white flag above my door

I'm in love and always will be

The term "Shipping" (Dido lyric: "I will go down with this ship") can also refer to fan fiction, where fans create relationships (thus the "ship") between characters that they hope will happen.

When in battle, a white flag indicates that the person behind the door wants to surrender. By the absence of a flag, the narrator is essentially stating that she intends to fight until the bitter end, and that she will not give up on her relationship with her partner.

 "they hold their tongues and let it pass, and you'll think that I've moved on".

This can again be a two way, or one way love interpretation and "I promise I'm not going to make your life harder or return to where we were" shows that although the feeling is strong, it is not right to act upon them any longer.

The chorus describes surrendering to your feelings, how the heart overrules the heart:

Dido's song is based on reality, however. It is about her split with her boyfriend Bob Page, who is the guy she wrote the song "Thank You" about. They were engaged, but split up in 2002, but later said that she initially regretted writing it because it caused more problems with the person involved. However, she has said that she now likes to perform the song.

A Neo-Nazi website misinterpreted the meaning of this song to be about white supremacy and used it as their theme tune. When she heard about this, Dido was disgusted that her music was been used to promote racial hatred and successfully had the website closed down. (thanks, Adam - Dewsbury, England, for above 5)

 

 

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Dido - Life For Rent

 

 

Lyrics

 

"Life For Rent"

I haven't ever really found a place that I call home
I never stick around quite long enough to make it
I apologize once again I'm not in love
But it's not as if I mind
that your heart ain't exactly breaking

It's just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

I've always thought
that I would love to live by the sea
To travel the world alone
and live more simply
I have no idea what's happened to that dream
Cos there's really nothing left here to stop me

It's just a thought, only a thought

But if my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

If my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

While my heart is a shield and I won't let it down
While I am so afraid to fail so I won't even try
Well how can I say I'm alive

If my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

If my life is for rent and I don't learn to buy
Well I deserve nothing more than I get
Cos nothing I have is truly mine
Cos nothing I have is truly mine
Cos nothing I have is truly mine
Cos nothing I have is truly mine

 

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DIDO´S BIOGRAPHY

 

Famed for writing songs that seemed to have an Everywoman spirit, British pop singer Dido started as a backup singer for her brother's band, Faithless. With her very first solo effort, No Angel, she soared to the top of the charts and into the hearts of millions around the world. To those looking from the outside in, her success seemed to happen overnight, but in reality Dido's road to stardom was a lifelong process.

Dido Armstrong was born and raised in London, England; she was the daughter of book publisher William Armstrong and his wife Claire, a homemaker whose hobby was writing poetry. Her parents named her after a Carthaginian queen. "Dido, she was an African queen, and in Latin literature, she was sort of a warrior queen, who actually ended up killing herself over a guy, which was a bit depressing," Dido explained to iAfrica. com.

The Armstrong household did not have a television during Dido's childhood, so she found other ways to entertain herself. At the age of five, she stole a recorder from her school's lost and found and discovered a passion for music as a result. Without any prompting from her parents, she practiced for six hours a day and sometimes more. The following year, she began attending the Guildhall School of Music in London, where she added the violin and piano to her talents. Dido discussed her early dedication in an interview with Jeff Chu at Time Europe. "I'd do like two hours on each instrument and maybe an hour on harmony and composition. … I have respect for how I was when I was younger, because I'm so not that cool now," she said.

As a teenager, Dido toured the United Kingdom with a classical music ensemble, primarily focused on her chosen instruments. But when she was 16, her focus started to shift. She discovered the music of Ella Fitzgerald and became very interested in singing. Dido's brother Rollo, who had begun pursuing his own musical career, discouraged her from her new direction. "I used to tell Rollo that Dido had a lovely voice," Faithless lead singer Sister Bliss told People, "and he looked at me and said, 'My sister can't sing!'"

Undaunted like her warrior namesake, Dido followed her dream anyway and began performing with a variety of bands in London. At the same time, she worked for a book publishing company and attended law school. She started in publishing as an assistant and eventually moved up to become a literary agent.

 

In the mid-1990s, Dido finally convinced her brother of her abilities and landed a spot as a backup singer with Rollo's trip-hop group Faithless. The group's 1996 debut album, Reverence, sold more than five million copies, and Dido decided to explore the idea of writing and performing her own music. "The Faithless thing was such a good experience, but I knew that had really nothing to do with me," Dido told Charlie Craine of Hip Online. "I was just singing backup vocals. It's such a different thing when I went on alone. I was like, 'Why is everyone looking at me?'"

Although she had been making good money as a literary agent, she decided to take a year off, with her supervisor's blessing, to work on her music career full time. Her boss assured her that she could have her old job back if things didn't work out. She spent part of her new free time touring with Faithless and part of the time writing and recording her own songs. A year to the day after she left her job, she signed a recording contract with the Arista label. Although she hadn't sent her demo tape to anyone at Arista, the record company invited her to meet with the head of the company, Clive Davis, at the Dorchester Hotel in London. "I think my demo tape just drifted around the music industry through friends and by word-of-mouth, basically," Dido told Chu. It became clear that the meeting was a success when Davis became enthused enough to jump in with backing vocals for her performance.

Dido released her debut, No Angel, in the United States in June of 1999. Accompanying it was the single "Here With Me," which was later chosen as the theme song for the WB television show Roswell. Dido produced the album with the help of her brother Rollo (who had become one of her biggest supporters), Rick Nowels, and former Verve and Crowded House producer Youth. "Dreamy pop, electronica shadings, folk guitars, and soulful vocals bend and blend together on No Angel," Christopher John Farley wrote in his Time review. That same year, Dido appeared on Faithless's second release, Sunday 8pm, which included her song "My Lover's Gone."

Dido had to wait until October of 2000 to release No Angel in Europe due to contractual disputes with her European label, Cheeky Records. The CD was released after BMG Records purchased the small label.

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DIDO - Here With Me

Here With Me

LYRICS 

DIDN´T HEAR YOU LEAVE.
I WONDER HOW AM I STILL HERE.
I DON´T WANT TO MOVE A THING.
IT MIGHT CHANGE MY MEMORY.

OH, I AM WHAT I AM.
I´LL DO WHAT I WANT.
BUT I CAN´T HIDE.
I WON´T GO.
I WON´T SLEEP.
I CAN´T BREATHE
UNTIL YOU´RE RESTING
HERE WITH ME.
I WON´T LEAVE.
I CAN´T HIDE.
I CANNOT BE
UNTIL YOU´RE RESTING
HERE WITH ME.

I DON´T WANT TO
CALL MY FRIENDS.
THEY MIGHT WAKE ME
FROM THIS DREAM.
AND I CAN´T LEAVE THIS BED,
RISK FORGETTING ALL THAT´S BEEN.

OH, I AM WHAT I AM.
I´LL DO WHAT I WANT.
BUT I CAN´T HIDE.
I WON´T GO.
I WON´T SLEEP.
I CAN´T BREATHE
UNTIL YOU´RE RESTING
HERE WITH ME.
I WON´T LEAVE.
I CAN´T HIDE.
I CANNOT BE
UNTIL YOU´RE RESTING HERE.

I WON´T GO.
I WON´T SLEEP.
I CAN´T BREATHE
UNTIL YOU´RE RESTING
HERE WITH ME.
I WON´T LEAVE.
I CAN´T HIDE.
I CANNOT BE
UNTIL YOU´RE RESTING
HERE WITH ME.

 

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Dido - Thank You (Acoustic)

 

 

 

 

LYRICS

 

My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I,
Got out of bed at all,
The morning rain clouds up my window,
And I can't see at all,
And even if I could it'd all be grey,
But your picture on my wall,
It reminds me that it's not so bad,
It's not so bad.

I drank too much last night, got bills to pay,
My head just feels in pain
I missed the bus and there'll be hell today,
I'm late for work again,
And even if I'm there, they'll all imply,
That I might not last the day,
And then you call me and it's not so bad,
It's not so bad.

And I want to thank you,
For giving me the best day of my life,
And oh, just to be with you,
Is having the best day of my life.

Pushed the door, I'm home at last,
And I'm soaking through and through,
Then you handed me a towel,
And all I see is you,
And even if my house falls down now,
I wouldn't have a clue,
Because you're near me.

And I want to thank you,
For giving me the best day of my life,
And oh, just to be with you,
Is having the best day of my life.

And I want to thank you,
For giving me the best day of my life,
And oh, just to be with you,
Is having the best day of my life.

 

 

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