Lyrics of Vampire Weekend's "Mansard Roof"

Video for 'Mansard Roof' by Vampire Weekend. Released in the UK on Abeano Music on Monday 12th November 2007.

Vampire Weekend - "Mansard Roof"

I see a mansard roof through the trees
I see a salty message written in the eaves
The ground beneath my feet
The hot garbage and concrete
And now the tops of buildings, I can see them too

The Argentines collapse in defeat
The admiralty surveys the remnants of the fleet
The ground beneath their feet
Is a nautically-mapped sheet
As thin as paper
While it slips away from view.

Vocabulary:
mansard roof - foto / a hip roof having two slopes on each side
eaves - the overhang at the lower edge of a roof
defeat - an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
admiralty - the office or jurisdiction of an admiral
remnant - that which remains after a part is removed, destroyed, used up, performed, etc
fleet - To sail, to float; moving very fast; To pass over rapidly; to skin the surface of; as, a ship that fleets the gulf,
slip away - pass by, as of time, leave furtively and stealthily.

Lyrics of The Airborne Toxic Event's "Sometime Around Midnight"

The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight

And it starts...
sometime around midnight
or at least that's when
you lose yourself
for a minute or two

As you stand...
under the barlights
and the band plays some song
about forgetting yourself for a while
and the piano's this melancholy sound check
to her smile
And that white dress she's wearing
you haven't seen her
for a while

But you know...
that she's watching
She's laughing, she's turning
she's holding her tonic like a crux
The room suddenly spinning
she walks up and asks how you are
so you can smell her perfume
you can see her lying naked in your arms

And so there's a change...
in your emotions
and all of these memories come rushing
like feral waves to your mind
of the curl of your bodies
like two perfect circles entwined
and you feel hopeless, and homeless
and lost in the haze
of the wine

And she leaves...
with someone you don't know
but she makes sure you saw her
she looks right at you and bolts
As she walks out the door
your blood boiling
your stomach in ropes
and when your friends say what happened
you look like you've seen a ghost

And you walk...
under the streetlights
and you're too drunk to notice
that everyone is staring at you
and you so care what you look like
the world is falling
around you

You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You just have to see her

and you know that she'll break you
in two

Vocabulary:

• sound check - a check of all the equipment needed to play music or broadcast speaker's voice to an audience
• crux - a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question
• feral - wild, untamed, ferine, not domesticated
• entwine - to be twisted or twined
• haze - light vapor or smoke in the air which more or less impedes vision, with little or no dampness; a lack of transparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness
• bolt - move or jump suddenly, leave suddenly and as if in a hurry, run away, in a rigid manner

lyrics The Drums - Let's Go Surfing

The Drums - "Let's Go Surfing" YouTube - video 2:51

The Drums. Origin: Brooklyn, New York. Genres: Indie pop. Years active: 2008 – present. Labels: Island Records, Moshi Moshi Records, Downtown Records, Pop Frenzy Records. Website: thedrums.com. Members: Jonathan Pierce (vocals), Jacob Graham (guitar), Adam Kessler (guitar), Connor Hanwick (drums).

The Drums - "Let's Go Surfing"

Wake up
It's a beautiful morning
Honey, while the sun is still shining
Wake up
Would you like to go with me?
Honey, take a run down to the beach

Oh, mama
I wanna go surfing
Oh, mama
I don't care about nothing

Wake up
There's a new kid in the town
Honey, he's moving into the big house
Remember
When I was so very hopeless
Darling, he's gonna make it all better

Oh, mama
I wanna go surfing
Oh, mama
I don't care about nothing

Down, down baby
Down by the rollercoaster
Sweet, sweet baby
I'll never let you go

Oh, mama
I wanna go surfing
Oh, mama
I don't care about nothing

Oh, mama
I wanna go surfing
Oh, mama
I don't care about nothing

Vocabulary:
Label - In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

See more:
http://www.muzikum.eu/int/en/123-8505-84276/the_drums/lets_go_surfing-lyric.html

lyrics BIFFY CLYRO - BUBBLES

BIFFY CLYRO - BUBBLES (video + lyrics). YouTube.

BIFFY CLYRO - BUBBLES (4:23)

Well how's your view of things today?
Got up young to fade away
The sinners sin but aren't aware
Our fables take us everywhere
I can't keep up with you
I can't keep up

I can't compete with history
We'll film it live but dub our tale
The mistery must stay inside
Look at our homes, look at our lives
In control of the morning
In control of the sea

You are creating all the bubbles at night
I'm chasing round trying to pop them all the time
We don't need to trust a single word they say
You are creating all the bubbles at play

There's a girl, there's a girl, there's a girl, there's a girl
And she's down by the river
In her own creepy world there's a girl, there's a girl
And she's down by the river
It's time to consider
That baby is a sinner
She'll wash away you sins (wash away your sins)
She'll wash away you sins (wash away your sins)
She'll wash away you sins and go home

I only once upset my kin
Wccused him of a moral slip
He came back and claimed the change
I know his life's the same again
I can't ask him again
I should let it go

You are creating all the bubbles at night
I'm chasing round trying to pop them all the time
We don't need to trust a single word they say
You are creating all the bubbles at play

There's a girl, there's a girl,
There's a girl, there's a girl
And she's down by the river
In her own creepy world there's a girl, there's a girl
And she's down by the river
It's time to consider
That baby is a sinner
There's a girl, there's a girl, there's a girl, there's a girl
(Wash away your sins, wash away your sins)
She's face down in the river

Vocabulary:

• get up - to stand up
• fade away - to slowly disappear, lose importance or become weaker
• sin - to break a religious or moral law
• aware - knowing that something exists, or having knowledge or experience of a particular thing
• fable - a short story which tells a general truth or is only partly based on fact, or literature of this type
• keep up with - If someone or something keeps up with someone or something else, they do whatever is necessary to stay level or equal with that person or thing
• dub - to change the sounds and speech on a film or television programme, especially to a different language; (2) to give something or someone a particular name, especially describing what you think of them
• tale - a story, especially one which might be invented or difficult to believe
• pop - hit, to strike or knock sharply
• creepy - strange or unnatural and making you feel frightened
• upset - to make someone worried, unhappy or angry
• kin - your closest relation or relations
• accuse - to say that someone has done something morally wrong, illegal or unkind
• slip - an unintentional departure from truth or accuracy slip of the tongue>
• claim - to ask for something of value because you think it belongs to you or because you think you have a right to it
• face down - to turn or be turned towards something physically; (2) to confront courageously, boldly, or impudently (usually fol. by down or out ): He could always face down his detractors.

See more:
Polish http://pl.shvoong.com/internet-and-technologies/websites/2002952-biffy-clyro-bubbles-t%C5%82umaczenie/
Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Bubbles-lyrics-Biffy-Clyro/7F547FE2AC1FE80F4825766900177FC2

Sunscreen (Everybody's Free) - subtitles

Sunscreen (Everybody's Free) (Tradução) - English reader, Spanish and Polish subtitles.

Sunscreen (Everybody's Free)


Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '99
"Wear sunscreen"

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, "sunscreen" would be it.

The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience.
I will dispense this advice NOW!

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth.
Oh, never mind.

You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded.

But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.
You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future.

Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts.
Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss
Don't waste your time on jealousy.
Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.
The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive.
Forget the insults.
If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters.
Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives.
Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees.
You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll divorce at 40.

Maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary.
Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either.
Your choices are half chance.
So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body.
Use it every way you can.
Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it.
It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance
Even if you have nowhere to do it but your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines.
They will only make you feel ugly.

"Brother and sister together we'll make it through,
Someday a spirit will take you and guide you there
I know you've been hurting but I've been waiting to be there for you
and I'll be there just helping you out
whenever I can..."

Get to know your parents.
You never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings.
They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go,
but with a precious few you should hold on.
Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get,
the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Live in "New York City" once, but leave before it makes you hard.
Live in "Northern California" once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel
Accept certain inalienable truths:
Prices will rise.
Politicians will philander.
You, too, will get old.
And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you.
Maybe you have a trust fund.
Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse.
But you never know when either one might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it.
Advice is a form of nostalgia.

Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.

"Brother and sister together we'll make it through,
Someday a spirit will take you and guide you there
I know you've been hurting but I've been waiting to be there for you
and I'll be there just helping you out
whenever I can..."

Everybody's Free, Everybody's Free To Feel Good!

Vocabulary:
blindside - to attack someone by surprise


See more:
http://letras.terra.com.br/baz-luhrmann/23763/traducao.html - English-Spanish

Breakfast at Tiffany's Final Scene

Breakfast at Tiffany's Final Scene

LESSON 1
Breakfast at Tiffany's Final Scene (1961) - subtitles

Cast: Audrey Hepburn (Holly Golightly), George Peppard (Paul 'Fred' Varjak). Director: Blake Edwards. Writers: Truman Capote (novel), George Axelrod (screenplay).

01:44:36
Stop the cab.

01:44:42
What do you think?

01:44:43
This ought to be the right place

01:44:45
for a tough guy like you -
garbage cans, rats galore.

01:44:50
Scram! I said take off! Beat it!

01:44:53
Let's go.

01:45:06
Driver...

01:45:10
Pull over here.

01:45:19
You know what's wrong with you,
Miss Whoever-You-Are?

01:45:23
You're chicken.

01:45:24
You've got no guts.

01:45:26
You're afraid to say,
"OK, life's a fact."

01:45:29
People do fall in love.

01:45:30
People do belong to each other,

01:45:32
because that's the only chance
anybody's got for happiness.

01:45:36
You call yourself a free spirit,
a wild thing.

01:45:39
You're terrified somebody's
going to stick you in a cage.

01:45:42
Well, baby,
you're already in that cage.

01:45:44
You built it yourself.

01:45:46
And it's not bounded
by Tulip, Texas, or Somaliland.

01:45:49
It's wherever you go.

01:45:50
Because no matter where you run,

01:45:52
you end up running into yourself.

01:46:01
Here. I've been carrying
this thing around for months.

01:46:06
I don't want it any more.

01:46:57
Here, cat!

01:47:00
Cat!

01:47:10
Where's the cat?

01:47:13
I don't know.

01:48:47
* Two drifters *

01:48:51
* Off to see the world *

01:48:55
* There's such a lot of world *

01:48:59
* To see *

01:49:04
* We're after *

01:49:07
* The same *

01:49:11
* Rainbow's end *

01:49:15
* Waitin' 'round the bend *

01:49:19
* My huckleberry friend *

01:49:23
* Moon River *

01:49:29
* And me. *


Vocabulary:

• galore - (old-fashioned informal) in great amounts or numbers
• scram - go away quickly
• beat it - (slang) go away
• pull over - (phrasal verb) If a vehicle pulls over, it moves to the side of the road and stops.
• bound - [T usually passive] to mark or form the limits of The village is bounded on one side by a river.
• end up phrasal verb - to finally be in a particular place or situation They're travelling across Europe by train and are planning to end up in Moscow.
• carry around - take from one place to another
• drifter - someone who moves from one place to another without any purpose
• huckleberry friend - A very special, good friend that's been in your life for years, typically since youth. From the Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini song, "Moon River", which was featured in the classic movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

See more:
http://subtitles.name/d/15356/Breakfast+at+Tiffany%27s.html
http://html.rincondelvago.com/phrasal-verbs_1.html