Ellie Goulding lights up
In her latest single, “Burn,” Ellie Goulding feels that her love affair can make the world a brighter place. They’re happy together and won’t let anything dim the fire of their love.
This week’s Karaoke Korner takes a look at synonyms of the word burn.
ABOUT ELLIE GOULDING
Name: Elena Jane Ellie Goulding
Nationality: English
Style: Pop
Label: Polydor
Albums: Halcyon (2012), Lights (2010)
In brief: This 26-year-old singer-songwriter released her debut album, Lights, in 2010. The album reached No. 1 on the UK Albums chart and has so far sold more than 600,000 copies. Before releasing the album, Ellie won the BBC Sound of 2010 poll, based on the votes of critics, broadcasters and music industry insiders. She also won the Critics Choice Award at the 2010 BRIT Awards. Ellie has also co-written songs for other artists, including “Love Me ‘Cause You Want To” for Gabriella Climi and “Jumping into Rivers” for Diana Vickers. Her second album, Halcyon, was released in October last year. The album features the pop hit “Burn.”
If you like Ellie Goulding, check out: Kate Nash, Dido and Lenka
Website: http://elliegoulding.com
“Burn”
By Ellie Goulding
We don’t have to worry about nothing
‘Cause we got the fire
And we’re burning one hell of a something
They, they’re gonna see us
From outer space, outer space
Light it up
Like we’re the stars of the human race
Chorus
When the lights turned down
They don’t know what they heard
Strike the match, play it loud
Giving love to the world
We’ll be raising our hands
Shining up to the sky
‘Cause we got the fire
Yeah we got the fire
And we gonna let it burn
We gonna let it burn
We don’t wanna leave
No, we just wanna be right now
And what we see
Is everybody’s on the floor
Acting crazy getting loco to the lights out
Music’s on, I’m waking up, we stop the fire
And we bump it up
And it’s over now, we got the love
There’s no secret now, no secret now
(Chorus)
We can light it up
So they can’t put it out
(Chorus)
Exercises
Rearrange of the following groups of letters to form synonyms of the word burn.
1. I-G-N-I-E-T
2. M-E-A-L-F
3. E-Z-A-L-B
4. R-L-A-E-F
Vocabulary
- human race (n): all people, considered together as a group
loco (adj): crazy
fire (n): very strong emotion, especially of enthusiasm or anger
halcyon (adj): peaceful and happy
