Autor: Minnie Minnie | Publicado: 2016-06-12T17:57:00-07:00




Savages – Marina Diamandis








1. Read the lyrics while listening to the song and
complete the missing words.



Murder lives _________

And so does war

It’s survival of the fittest

Rich against the poor

At the end of the ________

It’s a human trait

Hidden deep down inside of our DNA



One man can build a _________

Another, run a race

To save somebody’s life and have it blow up in his
face

I’m not the only one who finds it hard to
_____________

I’m not afraid of God

I am afraid of man



Is it running in our _________

Is it running in our veins

Is it running in our genes

Is it in our DNA

Humans aren’t gonna behave as we think we always
should

Yeah, we can be bad as we can be good



Underneath it all, we’re just savages

Hidden behind _________, ties, and marriages

How could we expect anything at all?

We’re just ___________ still learning how to crawl



We live, we die

We steal, we kill, we lie

Just like ____________

But with far less ____________

We laugh, we ___________

Like babies in the night

Forever running wild

In the human race



Another day, another tale of rape

Another ticking __________ to bury deep and detonate

I’m not the only one who finds it hard to
_____________

I’m not afraid of God

I am afraid of man



You can see it on the __________

You can watch it on T.V

You can read it on your phone

You can say it’s troubling

Humans aren’t gonna behave as we think we always
should

Yeah, we can be bad as we can be good



Underneath it all, we’re just savages

Hidden behind __________, ties, and marriages

How could we expect anything at all?

We’re just ____________ still learning how to crawl



Underneath it all, we’re just savages

Hidden behind shirts, ties, and marriages

Truth is in us all, cradle to the grave

We’re just ___________ still learning to behave

All the hate coming out from a ______________

Who got everything, and nothing guided by temptation

Were we _________ to abuse, shoot a gun and run

Or has something deep inside of us come undone?

Is it a human trait or is it learned behaviour

Are you killing for yourself or killing for your
saviour?




















Vocabulary

Fittest: Mais apto// Trait: Traço// Tale: Conto// Rape:
Estupro //Troubling: Perturbador //Cradle: Berço












2. About the verse "One man can build a bomb, another
run a race to save somebody’s life and have it blow up in his face" answer
the following questions.

The pronoun "IT" in "have IT blow up in
his face" refers to:

a) Man

b) Race

c) Bomb



The pronoun "ANOTHER" can relate to:

a) Bomb

b) One

c) Man



Read the verse again and answer. What does the
songwriter is talking about?

a) The singer is wondering how fast a man can run to
save somebody from being exploded by a bomb.

b) Marina is talking about how man can be so bad,
building a bomb, and how, at the same time, may exist another ones who would
sacrifice themselves to save someone else's life.

c) Marina is telling a story about a man who built a
bomb and ran a race.



3. Choose the most appropriate option to explain the
meaning of the song:

a) A pessimist vision about man, comparing the way we
live with the way animals live, making decisions without rationally thinking.
The singer believes that the human race will always do good and bad things in
the same amount of times.

b) An optimistic way to describe how man can be good
even when they build bombs and kill.

c) A way to see life knowing that man have been
murdering and acting like savages for so many years, but believing that
somehow, the human race will change for better.



//ANSWERS//

1.
forever, day, bomb, understand, blood, shirts, animals, animals, grace, cry,
bomb, understand, news, shirts, animals, animals, generation, born.

2. c - c - b 


3. a