Lekcja #32 Yes – Owner Of A Lonely Heart (1983)
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Zadanie 1. Wysłuchaj piosenki z youtube jednocześnie czytając tekst. O czym mówią słowa?
__________ yourself
You always live your life
Never thinking of the __________________
__________ yourself
You are the ___________ you __________________
Take your chances, win or ________________
____________ yourself
You are the _____________ you take
You and you, and that’s the only way
____________ , ___________ yourself
You’re every ____________ you ______________
So the ________________ goes
CHORUS: Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
(Much _____________ than a)
Owner of a _______________ heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Say, you don’t want to____________ it
You’ve been _____________so before
___________________ it now
The ______________ in the sky
How he dancin’ one and only
You, ______________ yourself
No not for pity’s sake
There’s no real _______________ to be lonely
Be yourself
Give your __________ ____________ a chance
You’ve got to want to _________________
CHORUS…
After my own __________________
They confused me so
Owner of a lonely heart
My love said never ______________ your will at all
In the end you’ve got to go
Look before you leap
Owner of a lonely heart
And don’t you ______________ at all, no no
Sooner or later each conclusion will decide the lonely heart
It will excite, it will delight
It will give a better start
Don’t deceive your free will at all
Just receive it
Zadanie 2. Uzupełnij luki w piosence słowami poniżej.
question, better, reason, free will, hurt, loser, lose, succeed, chance, hesitate, indecision , future, steps, eagle, move (x2), Prove, make (x2), broken, See, shake, story, Watch
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- The song meaning is clarified by the video. The video script/screenplay is an adaption of the Franz Kafka novel “The Trial”. The script remains faithful to the novel till the very last scene, where in typical Yes fashion we have a happy ending. This is not a betrayal of the novel as Kafka postulates the alternative ending anyway and Yes have simply taken him up on it. The Kafka novel starts with an ordinary guy with an ordinary job leading an ordinary life being arrested. He is told that he is on trial and , to cut a long story short, his sentence is death. In other words, this guy “goes with the flow” and does not question the world around him. The first couple of verses have Yes admonishing this bloke and urging him to make up his own mind about things and take control of his life. Following verses do much the same thing. “Give your free will a chance etc.”. It’s difficult for me to keep explaing the meaning of the song as it is so directly tied to the clip and the novel…I would give away the punchline(s) of the book and ruin it for those who would read it. Sufficient to say that the song is a great piece of music and the lyrics open up worlds to those who care to follow it through. See the clip, read the book and the lyrics will have another level of meaning.
- Trust your will, your authentic will, no matter what. Keep moving forward with confidence. Trust yourself and your instincts. Full awareness. Trust i seek and i find in you – nothing else matters. What can be confusing about the song is the weak distortions of the ego during the chorus saying ‘much better than – a’ versus the soul’s will to action in the rest of the song. Not unlike our own minds. Great song and video. Yes diehards might not like it, but its great nonetheless.
- I think this song is about a guy who is kind of a downer and he’s mad that he’s not achieving any success, but is unwilling to put himself out there in order to achieve it, using the excuse that “an owner of a lonely heart is better than an owner of a broken heart”.
- He is an eagle in spirit, his enemies are the evil creatures which try to attack him. They represent the evil thoughts or influences that attack each one of us. But an eagle can not only defeat these creatures in the natural, it can also fly away to escape them. His problems are all brought on by his conformist mindset, and to be free he needs to go his own way, “follow his own will” or the will of God. and become the true eagle inside, his true self, or what God has created him to be.
- I was thinking the chorus, “Owner of a lonely heart, much better than the owner of a broken heart”, means… Following your dreams and taking the road less traveled and NOT going with the flow, would be a lonelier road, therefore you would be the “Owner Of A Lonely Heart”, but it would be “much better than the owner of a broken heart”, which is what you would get, if you don’t go for what you want in life. Wasting a life following all the “shoulds” of life and the path laid out for you by the expectations of others.
Zadanie 4. Uzupełnij definicje słowami, które są wyróżnione (na grubo). Słowa mogą być w tekście piosenki, lub w komentarzach.
1. _________________________________________ used to express impatience or make an urgent appeal.
2. ________________________ pause in indecision before saying or doing something.
3. ______________________________ the inability to make a decision quickly.
4. ______________________________ the action of giving a misleading account or impression.
5. ____________________________ a person who strongly opposes change or who continues to support something in spite of opposition.
6.___________________ in spite of that; nevertheless.
7.____________ ______ ____________ be relaxed and accept a situation, rather than trying to alter or control it.
8.__________________ great pleasure
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