Live Forever
Oasis · 1994
🎤 Sing along
Sing with the chorus
- Maybe I don't really want to know
- How your garden grows
- I just want to fly
- Lately did you ever feel the pain
Echo the hook
- We see things they'll never see
- You and I are gonna live forever
- Maybe I don't really want to know
- How your garden grows
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:
Maybe I don't really want to know
Exercise 8
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Lately did you ever feel the pain
Exercise 9
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Maybe I just want to breath
Exercise 10
Translate this line to Portuguese:
Maybe you're the same as me
Exercise 11
Translate this line to Portuguese:
You and I are gonna live forever
Exercise 12
Choose the missing word:
Maybe I ? really want to know
Exercise 13
Choose the missing word:
Lately did you ? feel the pain
Exercise 14
Choose the missing word:
I want to ? I don't want to die
Exercise 15
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Maybe I don't ? want to know
Exercise 16
Choose the missing word:
But now is not the ? to cry
Exercise 17
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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 "want" in the whole song?
"want"
Exercise 23
How many times do you hear the word "maybe" in the whole song?
"maybe"
Exercise 24
Put these three lines in the order they appear in the song:
- Maybe I don't really want to know
- Maybe I will never be
- Maybe you're the same as me
Exercise 25
What kind of person do you imagine the narrator of "Live Forever" is? Describe their age, mood, and situation using at least three details from the lyrics.
Exercise 26
If you could ask Oasis one question about "Live Forever", what would it be and why?
Exercise 27
Rewrite the chorus of "Live Forever" in your own words — keep the meaning but change the style (formal, slang, poetic, whatever you like).
Exercise 28
Write the full form of each contraction:
don't→you're→they'll→gonna→we're→
Exercise 29
If you could change the ending of the story told in "Live Forever", what would happen instead?
Exercise 30
"Live Forever" was released in 1994. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.