Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974), professionally known as Jewel, is an American
singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress and poet. She has received four
Grammy Award nominations and has sold over 27 million albums worldwide.
FOOLISH GAMES
You took your coat off and stood in the rain,
You're always crazy like that.
And I watched from my window,
Always felt I was outside looking in on you.
You're always the mysterious one with
Dark eyes and careless hair,
You were fashionably sensitive
But too cool to care.
You stood in my doorway, with nothing to say
Besides some comment on the weather.
Well in case you failed to notice,
In case you failed to see,
This is my heart(1) ___________ before you,
This is me down on my knees, and...
These foolish games are (2) __________________,
And your (3) ____________ words are breaking my heart.
You're breaking my heart.
You're always brilliant in the morning,
Smoking your cigarettes and talking over coffee.
Your philosophies on art, (4) ______________ moved you.
You loved Mozart and you'd speak of your loved ones
As I (5) ___________ (6) _____________ my guitar.
You'd teach me of honest things,
Things that were (7) __________, things that were clean.
Things that knew what an honest dollar did mean.
I hid my soiled hands behind my back.
Somewhere along the line, I must've got
Off track with you.
Well, excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else,
Somebody who (8) _______________,
Somebody more like myself.
These foolish games are tearing me apart,
And your thoughtless words are breaking my heart.
You're breaking my heart.
You took your coat off,
Stood in the rain,
You're always crazy like that.
a) Match the words with the definitions.
A. Thoughtless _____ 1. loosing blood from the body as a
result of injury or illness.
B. gave a damn ____ 2. destroy emotionally.
C. bleeding _____ 3. having the courage to do something.
D. tearing me apart _____ 4. awkward in movement of
performance.
E. Baroque _____ 5. without consideration of the
consequences.
F. clumsily ____ 6. play the guitar by sweeping the
thumb down the strings.
G. strummed ______ 7. be condemned by God to suffer
eternal punishment in hell.
H. daring ______ 8. a style of European architecture,
music and art of the 17th and 18th
centuries characterized by ornate
detail.
