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Bullet with Butterfly Wings

The Smashing Pumpkins · 1995

Bullet with Butterfly Wings by The Smashing Pumpkins (1995) — selected for the English-through-music catalog. Use the sing-along prompts and exercises to drill pronunciation, vocabulary, and listening comprehension.

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Lyrics + translation · letras.mus.br

🎤 Sing along

Sing with the chorus

  • Even though I know
  • I suppose I'll show
  • All my cool and cold like old Job

Echo the hook

  • Tell me I'm the only one
  • Tell me there's no other one
  • Jesus was an only son
  • Tell me I'm the chosen one
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Theis a vampire

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

And aof the game

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

II'll show

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Tell meno other one

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

Tell me there's noone

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

And I stillthat I cannot be saved

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Hold you up to the flames

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Even though I know

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Now I'm naked

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And what do you want?

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

And what have you got

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

The ? is a vampire

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Even ? I know

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

But can you ? it

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

All my cool and ? like old Job

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Tell me there's no ? one

Exercise 17

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 18

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 19

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 20

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 21

Put the words in the right order:

Click the words below in the correct order…

Exercise 22

How many times do you hear the word "despite" in the whole song?

"despite"

Exercise 23

How many times do you hear the word "rage" in the whole song?

"rage"

Exercise 24

Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:

  • I suppose I'll show
  • Now I'm naked
  • The world is a vampire

Exercise 25

And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:

  • I want to change
  • Sent to drain
  • Tell me there's no other one

Exercise 26

What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.

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Exercise 27

If you could ask The Smashing Pumpkins one question about "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", what would it be and why?

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Exercise 28

Rewrite the chorus of "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).

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Exercise 29

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • i'll→
  • i'm→
  • there's→

Exercise 30

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", what would happen instead?

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