What we really want - Rosanna Cash

I found this song to introduce the idea of cleft clauses with my higher level class. Having analysed the song we then went on to talk about other ways of emphasis.

What we really want – Rosanne Cash

We tried to make ourselves 1.........................
For something we've never 2.................
We threw the best parts of life 3..........................

On street talk, strangers and drugs
And what we really want is 4................
What we really need is 5................

I wanna call out your 6...................
I wanna hold out my 7...............
A woman silent in the mirror tonight
Wants to talk to your mirror man
And what they really want is love
And what they really need is love

We are ships in the 8...............
The water is deep in 9....................
There is reason and we can't find the light
So we sail off into our 10................
And what we really dream is love
And what we really need is love

What we want is love
What we need is love

We tried to make it feel  11...............
In someone else's world
We sat and looked out my window last 12..........

And knew that things had changed with this 13................
'Cause what I really found was 14..............
What we really need is love

What we really want is love

What we really need is love
What we want is love
What we need is love

pay    done    away    love   name   hand   night  between   right   dreams  

night  girl    love   love

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