Song Project – Alexandre

I chose this song, because I think that this song is the essential lyric to anyone who keeps asking yourself about the wheres or whys. This music is not too much known, it has 23 minutes and is divided in two parts, like a trip, you listen the firsts 15 minutes and then it has a changing of behavior and thinking on the music and then the second part starts. It was played for the first time in 1968 by the Pink Floyd, but it was realeased in 1970. Pink Floyd is my favorite band, because they had a notion about music in that time that fews had it and they were pioneers in the psychadelic rock experience, which is my favorite tipe of music. If you read this lyric carefully you will see that it has something to imagine that goes beyond our world and our imaginations, the song is very good too, with all the efects and abillity of the Pink floyd members.

When I first listened this song I was schocked and happy to know  that there were people thinking like me even before my parents know wichother and it’s a very timeless music, because it’s old but it will be actuall forever, because it talks about the questions of humans about the life, energy and how people ignore it and continue to live their progamed lifes. That’s why I’m fan of Pink Floyd, because they use music to pass some message and to teach something, to protest and to cause revolution and questions into our heads, that’s the proupose of music not this stupid things that it has 2 minutes of ”lalala…i love you, i promisse i’ll be yours forever” and all this crap that the world is sick of listening. We need more Pink Floyd bands in todays world, to guide the youth, because if the music is the reflect of the youth, our youth is lost in todays life.

Echoes

By Pink Floyd

Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine
And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the wheres or whys
But something stirs and
Something tries
And starts to climb towards the light
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
And do I take you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand the best I can
And no one calls us to move on
And no one forces down our eyes
And no one speaks
And no one tries
And no one flies around the sun
Cloudless every day you fall
Upon my waking eyes
Inviting and inciting me to rise
And through the window in the wall
Comes streamin in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of morning
And no one sings me lullabies
And no one makes me close my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky.

PART I

PART II

PART III

Song Project — Guilherme — Lyrics

Get Far 

By Shinning Star

The way you look at me
The way you touch me
The fire in your eyes
(I swear) makes me shivers inside
There’s nothing I can do about it
‘Cause nothing seems so truth
When I’m beside you
am I dreaming
of Venus just hold my hand
Naked, perfect, so beautiful
You turn me up and down
I was spinning round and round
You never get enough, baby you don’t
You’re a shining star

The way you look at me
The way you touch me
The fire in your eyes
(I swear)Makes me shivers inside
There’s nothing I can do about it
You’re my soulmate, my summer and my faith
You fill me up with love
Your kisses are better than wine
There’s nothing I want more than you, girl

-Well, I choose this song because it remembers me the best relationship I had whith a girl. We met in Bahia and fell in love in a trip into the beaches of Itaparica.

Bia

I´m a student of Graçinha, and I really love my school. I´m a lover of brasilian movies, but my favorites movies are from Almodover, just like: “Carne tremula”, “Tudo sobre minha mãe”, “Fale com ela”, “Kika”, or even “Volver”. I´m a lover of brasilian music too, and my favourites singers are Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso and Maria Bethania.

Song Project – Priscila

My song doesn´t really have a story behind it, but it´s just a song that reminds me of the good times I have had with really special friends.

I used to study in a school that I liked very much and my best friends used to study there too. We used to have a lot of fun together, and we were always laughing.

Here are the lyrics. 

Hands Clean

If it weren’t for your maturity

none of this would have happened

If you weren’t so wise beyond your years

I would’ve been able to control myself

If it weren’t for my attention

you wouldn’t have been successful and

If it weren’t for me

you would never have amounted to very much

Chorus

Ooh this could be messy

But you don’t seem to mind

Ooh don’t go telling everybody

And overlook this supposed crime

We’ll fast forward to a few years later

And no one knows except the both of us

And I have honored your request for silence

And you’ve washed your hands clean of this

You’re essentially an employee

and I like you having to depend on me

You’re my kind of protege

and one day you’ll say you learned it all from me

I know you depend on me

like a young thing would to a guardian

I know you sexualize me

like a young thing would and I think I like it

Chorus

What part of our history’s reinvented and under rug swept?

What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?

What with this distance it seems so obvious?

Just make sure you don’t tell on me

especially to members of your family

We best keep this to ourselves

and not tell any members of our inner posse

I wish I could tell the world

cuz you’re such a pretty thing when you’re done up properly

I might want to marry you one day

if you watch that weight and keep your firm body

Song Project – Rafael

I was born in a small city next to Campos do Jordão called Renopolis. I lived there until I was four years old. Then, I moved to the big city. Those days of my life where the best ever. When I lived in Renopolis, I used to live on a big farm, where I was always playing around with my friends who lived in the farms next to mine.When I came to the big city, I had lots of problems, like having to learn how to speak better Portuguese because, on the farm, I was used to speaking Japanese with everybody and adapting to a new environment was very difficult for me. Then, because I was not able to learn Portuguese as fast, I started to become frustrated and I started doing bad things. But then I remebered how was my life when I lived in the farm and I realized that doing bad things woudn’t solve my problems. I remebered the happiness felling which I used to feel, and this was the motivation for me to go extra mile to learn portuguese. And the song which I chose was Ghetto Gospel because in this song Tupac talks about remebering his past and learning with his problems like I did.

Ghetto Gospel

By Tupac Shakur

 Uhh,
Hit them with a lil’ ghetto gospel

[Chorus - Elton John
Those who wish to follow me (My ghetto gospel)
I welcome with my hands
And the red sun sinks at last into the hills of gold
And peace to this young warrior without the sound of guns

[2Pac]
If I could recelect before my hood dayz
I’d sit and reminisce, nigga and bliss on that good dayz
i stop and stare at the younger, my heart goes to’em
They tested, it was stressed that fate under
In our days, things changed
Everyone’s ashamed to the youth cuz the truth looks strange
And for me it’s the worst, we left of a world that’s cursed, and it hurts
cause any day they’ll push the button
and yall condemned like Malcolm x and Bobby Hunton, died for nothin
Don’t them let me get teary, the world looks dreary
but when you wipe your eyes, see it clearly
there’s no need for you to fear me
if you take the time to hear me, maybe you can learn to cheer me
it aint about black or white, cuz we’re human
I hope you see the light before its ruined
my ghetto gospel

[Chorus - Elton John]

[2Pac]
Tell me do you see that old lady aint it sad
Living out a bag, plus she’s glad for the little things she has
And over there there’s a lady, crack got her crazy
Guess she’s given birth to a baby
I don’t trip and let it fade me, from outta the frying pan
We’re jumping to another form of slavery
Even now I keep discouraged
Wonder if they take it all back while I still keep the courage
I refuse to be a role model
I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle
I make mistakes, I learn from everyone
And when its said and done
I bet this Brotha be a better one
If I’m upset, you don’t stress
Never forget, that God hasn’t finished with me yet
I feel his hand on my brain
When I write rhymes, I go blind, and let the lord do his thang
But am I less holy
Cuz I choose to puff a blunt and drink a beer with my homies
Before we find world peace
We gotta find peace in that war on the streets
My ghetto gospel

[Chorus - Elton John]

[2Pac]
Lord can you hear me speak!!
To pay the price of being hell bound…

Song Project – Rebeca

Why I chose this song Well, this  song is about to  remind me my two best friends, Ilana and Stephanie.   We are a inseparable triad, however, Stephanie is in a exchange program, in Victoria BC, Vancouver, Canada, and we both – me and Ilana- are missing her here. This song shows, in my point of view, the meaning of a truly friendship, which whenever you call, your friend will come to stand you a hand and help you with your problems. You’ve Got A Friend james taylor

<> <> <> <> <> <> James Taylor - You've Got A Friend james taylor When you're down and troubled And you need a helping hand And nothing, whoa nothing is going right. Close your eyes and think of me And soon I will be there To brighten up even your darkest nights. Chorus You just call out my name, And you know wherever I am I'll come running, oh yeah baby To see you again. Winter, spring, summer, or fall, All you got to do is call And I'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got a friend. If the sky above you Should turn dark and full of clouds And that old north wind should begin to blow Keep your head together and call my name out loud And soon I will be knocking upon your door. Chorus You just call out my name And you know where ever I am I'll come running to see you again. Winter, spring, summer or fall All you got to do is call And I'll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey, ain't it good to know that you've got a friend? People can be so cold. They'll hurt you and desert you. Well they'll take your soul if you let them. Oh yeah, but don't you let them. Chorus You just call out my name And you know wherever I am I'll come running to see you again. Oh babe, don't you know that, Winter, spring, summer, or fall, Hey now, all you've got to do is call. Lord, I'll be there, yes I will. You've got a friend. You've got a friend. Ain't it good to know you've got a friend. Ain't it good to know you've got a friend.

Song Project – Rick

The song I have chosen as my contribution to our class project is Come What May from the motion picture Moulin Rouge. There is a link to a You Tube snippet of the movie, just in case you are one of the few in the world who have not watched it.

Lyrics 

Come What May

Nicole Kidman & Ewan McGregor

Never knew I could feel like this

Like I’ve never seen the sky before.

Want to vanish inside your kiss.

Every day I love you more and more.

 

Listen to my heart.

Can you hear it sing?

Telling me to give you everything.

Seasons may change, winter to spring

But I love you until the end of time.

 

Come what may. Come what may.

I will love you until my dying day.

Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place.

 Suddenly it moves with such a perfect grace.

Suddenly my life doesn’t seem such a waste.

It all revolves around you.

And there’s no mountain too high, no river too wide.

Sing out this song, and I’ll be there by your side.

 

Storm clouds may gather, and stars may collide.

But I love you until the end of time.

 

Come what may. Come what may.

I will love you until my dying day.

Oh, come what may. Come what may.

I will love you, I will love you.

Suddenly the world seems such a perfect place.

 

Come what may. Come what may.

I will love you until my dying day.

 Explanation

Alexia was the only woman I have ever truely loved in my entire life.  We met while we were foreign students at California State University in the beginning of the 1990’s. Born in Paris to a Japanese family, Alexia went to the States to study Philosophy. Since she could only work on campus, she applied for a full-time job as an English instructor for a program for foreign students who came to visit California for the summer. Under the same constraints to find a job, I also applied to work in the same summer program.

The job required that we not only taught English in the morning but also accompanied the students in their afternoon and evening activities as local tour guides; in other words, Alexia and I ended up spending the months of June, July and August of 1992, virtually 24 hours a day together. And the more time we spent together, the more we realized how much in synch we were in life. The same goals, the same values, the same views on life. If you believe in past lives, we were definetely soul mates.

After the summer program ended, we decided to share the same apartment building right across from the university, and we lived there until the end of 1996, when both our green card applications had been denied by the American government. Unlike couples who break up for incompatibility reasons, we were being split by outside forces, just like the relationship between Christian (Ewan McGregor) and Satine (Nicole Kidman) in the movie Moulin Rouge.

Alexia wasn’t willing to give up on her life in Paris to come live with me here in Brazil, just like I wasn’t willing to restart my life in a country where I would again take the risk of not being able to get my green card. Besides, I spoke no French, and she spoke no Portuguese. Similarly, Satine didn’t see herself leaving her life as a courtesan, and Christian was aware of his financial conditions as a writer of not being able to provide Satine the glamourous life she so much wanted.

Other parallel features are the fact that I am also a writer in my free time, and Alexia’s home is Paris close to the real Moulin Rouge. Although the movie had not come out at the time the two of us parted, the day I left Alexia at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), I confessed to her that no matter what happened in our lives from that day on, I would always love her until death do us part. (“Come what may, come what may, I will love you until my dying day”.)

I have been in several other relationships after Alexia here in Brazil, but none of them remotely compare to what we had together in the United States, hence, my not having gotten married until today. Because “seasons may change, winter to spring, but I will love her until the end of time.”

Song Project

I was thinking … the original Inter Teen 2 class project is a song, so why not use some of the project ideas in our class blog? We could start out by selecting a song that is meaningful to us somehow, and start sharing with the rest of the group (and eventually with the whole wide world) why we have picked this song in particular.

Guilherme

A normal student from Alumni, who loves cars, films and  his soccer team, São Paulo Football Club. I am 16 and have always been addicted to Japanese girls and food! I am a hardworking guy, who has good grades, and who intends to get into medicine at a university in São Paulo. At the moment, I am dating no girl, and am in need of some attention.

Priscila

I´m a music lover and I love sports too, especially soccer(I´m a Corinthians fan), but I prefer to play it on the field rather than watching it on TV. I study, but I don´t really like school. What I really enjoy doing is travelling. I love to travel and I want to travel around the whole world. I like movies a lot and I don´t like computers too much, and that´s why I rarelly use it. I have really good friends whom I love and that mean a lot to me. And it´s really good to spend time with them.