WTIAS Answers No. 4 - The Good Times by The Last Tycoons

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All these people I once held so dear

All bore me now and it’s becoming clear
We’ve both been wasted all our lives
Soon it’s gone cut and bleed us dry

It gets lonely
Oh it gets lonely
Now the good times are over

This city that I love so well
Now it won't hurt to say farewell
I´m sick to death and don't want to remain
To play that losing roll all over again

But it's only
Yeah it's only
That the good times are over

I got your letter yesterday
Cursed you once or twice for the delay
The curtain's down the stage is bare
The clock was cruel beyond compare
I sat drunk and listened silently
Now tell me isn’t that true chivalry
We said good bye and I struggled to say
I’ve always been devoted to you in my way

WTIAS Answers No. 5 - Ali Hewson

Please read WTIAS No. 5 first!

My main drive has always been my children and since having had my children I became much more aware of what was going on in the atmosphere, the environment and I wanted to be able to buy clothes for my children that weren’t made by other people’s children. [Right]

So there was a couple of different ideas that kind of converged together. And if you look at any developing country one of the first industries that starts is the clothing industry, starts with a couple of sewing machines, little factory develops. In Africa the cotton industry was already there so it seemed like the right direction to go, but at the moment we go into factories that already exist. [Ok]. And at this point what they need in most of those  developing countries is trade. They just need more business to keep their present factories opened.

[So you purchase from the businesses that are already established and then help them distribute it elsewhere. Ok. Got it. Great].

Exactly. And plus by working with, I mean, being such a tiny company, you know, it’s very much experimental at this point, but working with factories to help develop their skills, you know, designers go down there. They see what they can do. They try and help them do new stitches or whatever. So it makes them more attractive then to other companies coming in  if they have new skills.       

Answers LE No. 3 - Larry Mullen

You don’t know me but my story is a common  one 
because my life has  changed since I became HIV positive.

Now I live my life at  the  back of the queue. 

At the doctor, dentist. They see everyone before  me.

They have their own  reasons I suppose but it’s  hard. 

Always at the back for everything

Always last for everything

Not my words but the real live experience of someone forced  to live with the stigma we attach  to people living with or affected by HIV.

The thing is there is now good treatment for HIV but  where is the treatment for the way the rest  of  us think.

WTIAS Answers No. 2 - I am lion by The Cast of Cheers

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Morning, just another day

I have seen so many that my heart could give away

Oh these days all blend into one

Lunchtime after deadline after evening meets the sun

I fail to be unimpressed (with)

The actions that you carry with your actions under stress...

...show me more about your character

Than you could ever show me had you known that I was there

I lion will eat you

The closer that you cometh

The closer is the fool

My open jaw on the amber blue

The closer that you cometh

The closer I am to you

Hear this, I can never wait

I will keep on spinning

I will never stay the same

Hour glass, you are a true guide

Of my nature and intention you are by my side
lyrics

WTIAS Answers No. 1 - Bono at Croke Park

*... in a long line of U2 accessories, our very own space station. It’s gonna take us [to] all kinds of places over the next year, but before we put a deposit down we wanted to make sure  that it would also get us home so, I mean, actually home, if you know what I mean, safe and sound type of thing.  Anyway we had a top night last night but we’re gonna top it tonight easily.  And then we’re gonna top ourselves on Monday night. It should make a few people happy but they’re not here. You’re here! It’s like a big Irish wedding this whole thing. And people fighting in the toilets, babies being made, babies being born, love making, all kinds of stuff going on for our visitors from out of town from Chile or Brazil or…

* [This is what we brought home the latest]...


Use going to instead of gonna in your English tests.