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Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely

Backstreet Boys · 1999

Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely by Backstreet Boys (1999) — 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

  • Show me the meaning of being lonely
  • So many words for the broken heart
  • It's hard to see in a crimson love
  • So hard to breathe

Echo the hook

  • There's something missing in my heart
  • Life goes on as it never ends
  • Eyes of stone observe the trends
  • They never say
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Definitions: Cambridge Dictionary · Translation: MyMemory

Exercises

Exercise 1

Fill the blank in this line:

Show me theof being lonely

Exercise 2

Fill the blank in this line:

It's hard to see in alove

Exercise 3

Fill the blank in this line:

Is this theI need to walk with?

Exercise 4

Fill the blank in this line:

Eyes ofobserve the trends

Exercise 5

Fill the blank in this line:

There's noare you with me now?

Exercise 6

Fill the blank in this line:

How can it beasking me to feel

Exercise 7

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Wild and free, I could feel the sun

Exercise 8

Translate this line to Portuguese:

They never say

Exercise 9

Translate this line to Portuguese:

The things you never show

Exercise 10

Translate this line to Portuguese:

Show me the meaning of being lonely

Exercise 11

Translate this line to Portuguese:

It's hard to see in a crimson love

Exercise 12

Choose the missing word:

Show me the ? of being lonely

Exercise 13

Choose the missing word:

Nights of ? so soon become

Exercise 14

Choose the missing word:

There's ? missing in my heart

Exercise 15

Choose the missing word:

Guilty ? to an endless love (endless love)

Exercise 16

Choose the missing word:

Surrender my ? body, and soul

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 "tell" in the whole song?

"tell"

Exercise 23

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

"heart"

Exercise 24

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

  • Show me the meaning of being lonely
  • There's no control, are you with me now?
  • They tell me

Exercise 25

Describe the mood of "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" in three adjectives. What part of the song makes you feel that way?

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Exercise 26

Who in your life would you dedicate "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" to, and what line captures what you want to say to them?

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Exercise 27

Compare "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" with a Brazilian song you know. Do they share a theme? How do their styles differ?

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Exercise 28

Write the full form of each contraction:

  • it's→
  • can't→
  • there's→
  • you're→

Exercise 29

Imagine you are making a short film with "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" as the soundtrack. What scene would you show while the chorus plays?

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Exercise 30

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

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