Пой песни и учи английский: Linkin Park - Numb

Привет! Сегодня понедельник! Пускай, он в основном «день тяжелый», я надеюсь, что после прослушивания песни из нашей еженедельной рубрики «Sing and Learn», он станет чуточку легче. Сегодня у нас в гостях группа Linkin Park и их песня Numb.

I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless lost under the surface
Don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
 (Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
 (Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)

I've become so numb I can't feel you there
I've become so tired so much more aware
I'm becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you

Can't you see that you're smothering me
Holding too tightly afraid to lose control
Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you
 (Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
 (Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
And every second I waste is more than I can take

I've become so numb I can't feel you there
I've become so tired so much more aware
I'm becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you

And I know
I may end up failing too
But I know
You were just like me with someone disappointed in you

I've become so numb I can't feel you there
I've become so tired so much more aware
I'm becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you

I've become so numb I can't feel you there
 [I'm tired of being what you want me to be]
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
 [I'm tired of being what you want me to be]

Grammar

В плане грамматики эта песня порадует нас причастными оборотами, Participle Clauses in English. 

• Feeling so faithless lost under the surface
• Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow
• Holding too tightly afraid to lose control

Прочитать о них подробней можно здесь

Present Perfect:

• I've become so numb I can't feel you there
• I've become so tired so much more aware
• Has fallen apart right in front of you

Мы о нем довольно много говорили в предыдущих выпусках, но еще одна mind map точно не повредит:

Dependent prepositions:

• I'm tired of being what you want me to be
• Don't know what you're expecting of me

Да-да, и мы всегда будем использовать of после выделенных слов. Все потому, что существует список глаголов, прилагательных и существительных, после которых используются только конкретные предлоги, например:

• Believe in, rely on, be famous for,etc.

Обширный список вы можете увидеть здесь.

Vocabulary:

• Faithless (adj) - not loyal and not able to be trusted (Mark has cheated on his wife. He is so faithless)
• Numb (adj) - If a part of your body is numb, you cannot feel it (My feet were numb with cold.)
• Smother (v) - to kill someone by covering their face with something so that they cannot breathe (It is said that Othello smothered Desdemona) 
• Waste (v) - to use too much of something or use something badly when there is a limited amount of it (Anna wasted her money on one more pair of awful leggings)
• End up (phr v) -  to finally be in a particular place or situation (I never thought he'd end up as a Bollywood star)

А теперь давайте отработаем эту песню - lyricstraining.com.