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Wish you were here, by Pink Floyd

So, so you think you can ____Heaven from Hell

blue skies ____ pain?

___ you tell a green field

from a cold steel rail?

_____ from a veil?

!o you _____ you can tell?

!id they ___ you to trade

your ______ for ghosts?

Hot ashes for _____?

Hot air for a ____ bree"e?

#old comfort for change?

nd did you e$change walk%on ____ in the war

For a lead%role __ a cage?

How & wish

How & wish you ____ here

We're (ust two lost souls

________ in a fish bowl

)ear _____ year

_______ over the same old groundWhat have we _____?

*he same old _____

Wish you ____ here

S+ )+ *H&-. )+ #-///?0 *his is a common ironic e$pression that in fact means1& don't think you can///1/

*233 H242- F5+6 H2330 .now the difference between right and wrong/ *he

e$pression *233 %% F5+6 %7% means8 know the difference, distinguish/- I can't tell a male cat from a female cat, they look exactly the same to me.- Kevin

is really stupid, he can't tell a television from a poster on the wall.

732 S.&2S F5+6 P&-0 *he complete sentence would be 1so you think you cantell blue skies from pain?1/ gain, & think you don't know the difference between anice feeling or situation 9blue skies: and a bad feeling or situation 9pain:/ So youare not prepared to distinguished between what's good and what's bad, you'recompletely lost/

#- )+ *233///0 gain, we have the same e$pression but in a different form8 #-)+ *233 %% F5+6 %7%?, which means, 1do you know the difference between %a%

and %be%?

;522- F&23!0 piece of cultivated land covered with grass/

S*2230 metal which is an alloy of iron and carbon, very hard, cold and stainless

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9it never rusts:/

5&30 structure made of bars forming a barrier or guard< a railing/

green field is a nice thing, full of life, a steel rail is a dead thing, cold and

artificial/

42&30 piece of light fabric hung to separate or conceal what is behind it< acurtain/ Sometimes used by women to cover their heads, and in &slamic countries,maybe their faces too/

smile is something nice that opens your heart to other people/ veil is somethingto conceal, to cover, to separate/

!&! *H2) ;2* )+ *+///0 &f someone gets you to do something, they convince

you, force you or deceive you to do something/

*5!20 2$change/

;H+S*S0 *he spirits of dead people that appear back in this world/

SH2S0 *he grey or black dust or powder that remains after something completelyburnt/

#++30 #old/

7522=20 3ight wind/

W3.%+- P5*0 minor role in a theatrical production, usually without speakinglines/ So to play 1a walk%on part in the war1 means to be in a war but without doinganything really important/

32!%5+320 ma(or role in a theatrical production 9or any other place:/ *o playthe lead role is to be the most important person, the leader, the star/

#;20 small place completely closed with bars, usually to keep animals inside,like birds in a house or animals at the "oo/

& W&SH )+ W252 H2520 & miss you< & want you to be with me/ We use thee$pression & W&SH 9> past: to e$press a desire, something we really want/*he verb W&SH 9desire: is followed by the unreal past also called 1pastsub(unctive1/ *he sub(unctive form of 2nglish verbs have almost disappeared, andnow there is no difference between the simple past and the past sub(unctive, but

with the verb 1to be1 we can still make the difference, though that's disappearing

too/*o be, simple past8 I was, You were, e was, !e were...*o be, past sub(unctive8 I were, You were, e were, !e were...

% I wish I were rich9more correct: 0I wish I was rich9getting more common, esp/in m2:With other verbs there's no sub(unctive form, so we simply use the simple pastafter the verb !I"#- I wish I had more friends.- I wish you loved me.

)25 F*25 )250 2very year, all the years, without end/We can also say 1day after day1, 1time after time1, etc/ to e$press the same idea9always the same, never changing:/

*H2 S62 +3! ;5+-!0 Here we use +3! to e$press that it doesn't change, it's

always the same/ *he sentence 1runnin$ over the same old $round1 means 1doingalways the same things1, 1our life doesn't change1/