Melissa Etheridge - I Need to Wake up + Earth

I Need to Wake Up: Activities

Activities


Melissa Etheridge wrote this song for Al Gore's enlightening documentary on global warming, "An Inconvinient Truth".


a) While you are listening for the first time , try to get the gist of it. What is the song about?

b) Listen to the song again and fill in the gaps with the missing words.

c) What sorts of problems are implied in the lyrics?

d) What message does the song convey?

e) What feelings did the song arouse in you?


I NEED TO WAKE UP

Have I been sleeping?
I´ve been so ( 1 ) __________
Afraid of crumbling
Have I been careless?
Dismissing all the distant rumblings
Take me where I`m supposed to ( 2 ) __________
To comprehend the things that I can`t ( 3 ) __________

´Cause I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to ( 4 ) __________
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something`s got to break up
I`ve been ( 5 ) __________
And I need to wake up
Now.

And as a child
I danced like it was 1999
My dreams were ( 6 ) __________
The promise of this new world
Would be mine
Now I am throwing off the carelessness of ( 7 ) __________
To listen to an inconvenient truth
That I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to ( 8 ) __________
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something`s got to break up
I`ve been ( 9 ) __________
And I need to wake up
Now

I am not an island
I am not ( 10 ) __________
I am my intentions
Trapped here in this flesh and bone

And I need to move
I need to wake up
I need to ( 11 ) __________
I need to shake up
I need to speak out
Something`s got to break up
I`ve been ( 12 ) __________
And I need to wake up
Now.


Written by Melissa Etheridge