Down with the Sickness
Disturbed · 2000
🎤 Sing along
Sing with the chorus
- Come on get down with the sickness
- You fucker get up
- Come on get down with the sickness
- Madness is the gift, that has been given to me
Echo the hook
- (Will you give it to me?)
- It seems what's left of my human side
- Is slowly changing in me
- (Will you give it to me?)
Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory
Exercises
Exercise 1
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Exercise 2
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Exercise 3
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Exercise 4
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Exercise 5
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Exercise 6
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Exercise 7
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Can you feel that?
Exercise 8
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Will you give it to me?
Exercise 9
Translate this line to Portuguese:
You mother get up
Exercise 10
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Don't try to deny what you feel
Exercise 11
Translate this line to Portuguese:
And when I dream
Exercise 12
Choose the missing word:
Can you ? that?
Exercise 13
Choose the missing word:
When ? it changes
Exercise 14
Choose the missing word:
Don't try to ? what you feel
Exercise 15
Choose the missing word:
Oh no, the ? is a scary place
Exercise 16
Choose the missing word:
Why ? you just fuck off and die?
Exercise 17
Put the words in the right order:
Exercise 18
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Exercise 19
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Exercise 20
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Exercise 21
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Exercise 22
How many times do you hear the word "sickness" in the whole song?
"sickness"
Exercise 23
How many times do you hear the word "don't" in the whole song?
"don't"
Exercise 24
Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:
- Can you feel that?
- Come on get down with the sickness
- No mommy, don't do it again
Exercise 25
And these three — put them in the order they appear in the song:
- I'll be a good boy
- Living with these changes
- Ooh ah ah ah ah
Exercise 26
Who in your life would you dedicate "Down with the Sickness" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?
Exercise 27
Compare "Down with the Sickness" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?
Exercise 28
If you could change the ending of the story told in "Down with the Sickness", what would happen instead?
Exercise 29
Write the full form of each contraction:
what's→you've→don't→you're→i'll→can't→
Exercise 30
The singer makes a claim or statement in this song. Do you agree with it? Use evidence from the lyrics to support your answer.