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Payphone

Maroon 5 · 2012

Payphone by Maroon 5 (2012) — 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

  • Where have the times gone?
  • Baby, it's all wrong
  • Where are the plans we made for two?
  • Yeah, I, I know it's hard to remember

Echo the hook

  • If "happy ever after" did exist
  • I would still be holding you like this
  • All those fairy tales are full of shit
  • One more fucking love song, I'll be sick, oh
it'spayphonecall

Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

I'm at atrying to call home

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

Thewe used to be

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Youout the lights

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

I would still beyou like this

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

But all of our bridgesdown

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

Wondering whyyou who came up from nothing

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I'm at a payphone trying to call home

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Where are the plans we made for two?

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

The people we used to be

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

You say it's too late to make it

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

I've wasted my nights

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

I'm at a ? trying to call home

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

That ? not here next to me

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

I'm at a payphone, ? to call home

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

You ? expect me to be fine

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

And all those ? tales are full of shit

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 "it's" in the whole song?

"it's"

Exercise 23

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

"payphone"

Exercise 24

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

  • All of my change I spent on you
  • Baby, it's all wrong
  • I'm at a payphone trying to call home

Exercise 25

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

it'spayphonecallshit

Exercise 26

If you could ask Maroon 5 one question about "Payphone", what would it be and why?

it'spayphonecallshit

Exercise 27

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

it'spayphonecallshit

Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • i'm→
  • it's→
  • you're→
  • i've→
  • i'll→
  • can't→

Exercise 29

If you could change the ending of the story told in "Payphone", what would happen instead?

it'spayphonecallshit

Exercise 30

"Payphone" was released in 2012. Do you think the themes in the song are timeless, or do they feel dated? Give one example from the lyrics.

it'spayphonecallshit