Maroon 5 feel lost
Photos courtesy of Bangkok Post, AP and A&M Records
In their latest single, “Maps,” Maroon 5 can’t work out what went wrong in their relationship, and they feel as if they’ve been let down. Despite that, they’re trying to make the relationship work again.
This week’s Karaoke Korner takes a look at synonyms of the word map.
ABOUT MAROON 5
Name: Maroon 5
Nationality: American
Style: Pop, rock
Albums: V (2014), Overexposed (2012), Hands All Over (2010), It Won’t Be Soon Before Long (2007), Songs About Jane (2002)
Label: Interscope, A&M Octone
In Brief: This American pop rock band formed in 1994 under the name of Kara’s Flowers. In 2001, the band changed their name to Maroon 5. Their album Songs About Jane was released the following year and gained international fame, helped along by the hit singles “This Love” and “She Will Be Loved.” Since then, Maroon 5 have won many music awards including Best New Artist at the 2005 Grammy Awards and the Favorite Pop/Rock Band at the 2012 American Music Awards. The band’s lead singer, Adam Levine, has been a coach and judge for The Voice USA since 2011. Maroon 5’s latest album, V, was released in August this year. The album features the popular tracks “Maps” and “It Was Always You.”
If you like Maroon 5, check out: The Black Eyed Peas, Jason Mraz and Justin Timberlake
Website: www.maroon5.com
“Map”
By Maroon 5
I miss the taste of a sweeter life
I miss the conversation
I’m searching for a song tonight
I’m changing all of the stations
I like to think that we had it all
We drew a map to a better place
But on that road I took a fall
Oh baby why did you run away
I was there for you
In your darkest times
I was there for you
In your darkest nights
But I wonder where were you
When I was at my worst
Down on my knees
And you said you had my back
So I wonder where were you
When all the roads
You took came back to me
Chorus
So I’m following the map
That leads to you
The map that leads to you
Ain’t nothing I can do
The map that leads to you
Following, following, following to you
The map that leads to you
Ain’t nothing I can do
The map that leads to you
I hear your voice in my sleep at night
Hard to resist temptation
‘Cause something strange
Has come over me
Now I can’t get over you
No, I just can’t get over you
(Chorus)
Exercises
Underline one word in each of the following groups of words that is a synonym of the word map.
1. raft/chart/part/past
2. plan/planet/plunge/pan
3. epigram/diagram/telegram/programme
4. paragraph/graph/telegraph/graphic
Vocabulary
- temptation (n): the desire to do or have something that you know is bad or wrong
let somebody down (n): to fail to help or support somebody as they had hoped or expected
