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  • [instrumental]

  • When you ask me

  • who I am

  • What is my vision?

  • Do I have a plan?

  • Where is my strength?

  • Have I nothing to say?

  • I hear the words in my head

  • but I push them away

  • 'Cause I stand for the power to change

  • I live for the perfect day

  • I love till it hurts like crazy

  • I hope for a hero to save me

  • I stand for the strange and lonely

  • I believe there's a better place

  • I don't know if the sky is heaven

  • But I pray anyway

  • And I don't know

  • what tomorrow brings

  • The road less traveled

  • Will it set us free?

  • 'Cause we're taking it slow

  • These tiny legacies

  • I don't try and change the world

  • But what will you make of me?

  • 'Cause I stand for the power to change

  • I live for the perfect day

  • I love till it hurts like crazy

  • I hope for a hero to save me

  • I stand for the strange and lonely

  • I believe there's a better place

  • I don't know if the sky is heaven

  • But I pray anyway

  • With the slightest of breezes

  • we fall just like leaves

  • As the rain washes us

  • from the ground

  • We forget who we are

  • We can't see in the dark

  • And we quickly get lost

  • in the crowd

  • Oh... [instrumental]

  • I stand for the power to change (I stand)

  • I live for the perfect day (for a change)

  • I love till it hurts like crazy (yeah)

  • I hope for a hero to save me

  • I stand for the power to change

  • I live for the perfect day

  • I love till it hurts like crazy

  • I hope for a hero to save me

  • I stand for the strange and lonely

  • I believe there's a better place

  • I don't know if the sky is heaven

  • But I pray anyway

  • Oh...

  • I stand for the power to change (I stand)

  • I live for the perfect day (for the perfect day)

  • I love till it hurts like crazy

  • I hope for a hero to save me

  • I stand for the strange and lonely

  • I believe there's a better place

  • I don't know if the sky is heaven

  • But I pray anyway

[instrumental]

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I Stand (Being Human)

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    Nina.Tyler.H posted on 2014/08/14
Video vocabulary

Keywords

place

US /ples/

UK /pleɪs/

  • noun
  • One's proper or appropriate role or duty.
  • One's home or residence.
  • Particular location, area or region
  • A position in a sequence or structure.
  • A position in a competition or ranking.
  • A house or home.
  • A person's situation or circumstances.
  • A town, city, or other area.
  • verb
  • To put someone in a particular type of situation
  • To make an order.
  • To put something in a certain location or position
  • To put something in a particular position.
  • other
  • To recognize or remember someone or something.
  • To make an order.
  • To put something in a particular position.
  • To rank in a competition.
strength

US /strɛŋkθ, strɛŋθ, strɛnθ/

UK /streŋθ/

  • noun
  • Condition of being strong
  • Power or effectiveness gained by a large group of people or things.
  • The number of people in an organization or group.
  • The number of people in a group or organization.
  • A good or beneficial quality or attribute of a person or thing.
  • other
  • The degree or intensity of something.
  • The degree to which something is effective or likely to succeed legally.
  • The ability of a material to withstand force or pressure.
  • The ability to withstand pressure or force; power to resist.
  • The quality of being morally strong.
  • The quality or state of being physically strong.
  • A good or beneficial quality or attribute of a person or thing.
  • The ability of a material to withstand force or pressure.
crowd

US /kraʊd/

UK /kraʊd/

  • verb
  • To force too many things, people into
  • (Lots of people) to meet together in one place
  • noun
  • Large group of people together in one place
stand

US /stænd/

UK /stænd/

  • verb
  • To be a candidate in an election
  • To be able to accept someone, something; bear
  • To last for a long time
  • To be upright; not be sitting or lying down
  • To place something in a particular position; place
  • To be (as stated)
  • To still be valid
  • To have an opinion about something
  • noun
  • Effort to fight against something
  • Piece of furniture; device to hold or support
  • Place in a stadium where spectators watch
  • Table where things are sold at a fair or market
change

US /tʃendʒ/

UK /tʃeɪndʒ/

  • noun
  • Exchange of one set of clothes for another
  • Money in the form of coins instead of paper
  • Money returned after giving too much
  • Act of making or becoming something else
  • verb
  • To exchange one set of clothes for another
  • To exchange one kind of money for another
  • To replace something with another thing
  • To make or become something else
  • To go from one train, bus, etc. and go to another
day

US /de/

UK /deɪ/

  • noun
  • A period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
  • The period of time when it is light outside
  • Person's name
vision

US /ˈvɪʒən/

UK /'vɪʒn/

  • noun
  • Ability to see; eyesight
  • Something you see in your imagination or dreams
  • Ability to plan for the future of something
live

US /liv/

UK /lɪv/

  • verb
  • To be alive
  • To experience a particular type of life
  • To make your home in a house or town
  • adjective
  • Being broadcast as events happen, not recorded
  • Carrying electric current; able to give a shock
  • Glowing because burning; hot
  • Not yet killed (for food)
  • adverb
  • (Music, drama) as it is performed
love

US /lʌv/

UK /lʌv/

  • noun
  • Person's name
  • A very strong feeling of affection
  • The person you care very deeply about
  • Strong, deep emotional and sexual attraction
  • verb
  • To care for and like someone very strongly, deeply
  • To like doing very much; enjoy greatly
  • To feel a strong emotional and romantic attraction
perfect

US /ˈpɚfɪkt/

UK /'pɜ:fɪkt/

  • adjective
  • Complete; utter.
  • Having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics; as good as it is possible to be.
  • (of a tense) denoting a completed action or an action prior to a specified time.
  • So good it cannot be improved
  • Exactly suitable; ideal.
  • verb
  • To do something so well, it cannot be done better
  • other
  • Bring (something) to the required or desirable state.