Weekend with Music: Miracles (Someone Special): Coldplay & Big Sean

Engramme's Weekend with Music#4 - Miracles (Someone Special): Coldplay & Big Sean (Listening B1-C1)

Saturday's here, and so is Coldplay's bea-u-ti-ful new release (with Big Sean): Miracles (Someone Special).

I'm proud of this week's choice of song 'cause it's very relevant: July 18 this week was Nelson Mandela International Day, and July 24, in the USA, will be National Amelia Earhart Day (And of course, JLo's birthday...not a national or international day though!). Coldplay's Miracles has obvious references to both people, and more...

Watch, Listen & Enjoy

And Here's the Official Lyric Video:

Wanna Learn More about the Language in the Lyrics? Mouse over the underlined vocabulary/ phrases to see more info¹. You're welcome! :)

My father said never give up son Just look how good Cassius become Mohammed, Mahatma, and Nelson Not scared to be strong Now you could run and just say they’re right No there’ll never be no one in my whole life Or you could turn and say no wait they're wrong And get to keep on dancing all life long My father said never give up son Just look what Amelia and Joan done Or Rosa, Teresa their war won Not scared to be strong Now you could run and just say they’re right No I’ll never be no one in my whole life Or you could turn and say no wait, they’re wrong And get to keep on dancing all life long Yeah you could be someone special You've got bright in your brains and lightning in your veins You'll go higher than they've ever gone In you I see someone special You've got fire in your eyes and when you realize you'll go further than we've ever gone Just turn it on Look I paid my intuition I couldn't afford tuition My funds was insufficient and it felt like I'm in prison And suddenly I realized I had to set my mind free I was trusting statistics more than I trust me Get a degree, good job, 401k, but I’m trying to turn k’s to m’s, what does it take? And maybe I could be the new Ali of music, prolly Instead of doing it just as a hobby like these boys told me to I guess you either watch the show or you show ‘em proof Prove it to them or you prove it to yourself but honestly it's better if you do it for yourself Never complacent till we hit the oasis One life don't waste it, feel my heart racing, success I taste it, ah Ah we on the verge of getting every single thing that we deserve Yeah you could be someone special You've got fire in your eyes I see heaven inside you'll go further than we've ever gone In you I see someone special You've got bright in your brains you can break through those chains you'll go higher than we've ever gone Just turn it on In you I see someone special Don't go to war with yourself Just turn, just turn, just turn it on and you can't go wrong

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Wish You a Saturday & Sunday Full of Energy & Fun :)

And here's a pdf copy (with gapped lyrics) For Teachers to Download

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1 This song gives learners a great opportunity to see many English collocations in use ('Collocations' are groups of words that are commonly used together, e.g. have/take a shower, go home, earn/make money, etc)^↩