From the Police S Album Synchronicity (1990)

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Listening Activities with a song by The Police
Designed by Itziar (Y5C, 2007-08)

From The Police’s album “Synchronicity” (1990)

Synchronicity

Another suburban ………………………………………………… morning
Grandmother ………………………………………………… at the wall
We have to shout above the din of our rice crispies
We can't hear anything at all
Mother chants her litany of ………………………………………………… and frustration
But we all ………………………………………………… her suicides are fake
Daddy only stares into the …………………………………………………
There's only so much more that he can take
Many ………………………………………………… away
Something crawls from the …………………………………………………
At the ………………………………………………… of a dark
Scottish lake
Another ………………………………………………… ugly morning
The factory belches filth into the …………………………………………………
He walks unhindered through the picket lines today
He doesn't think to …………………………………………………
The secretaries pout and preen like cheap ………………………………………………… in a red light street
But all he ever ………………………………………………… to do is watch
And every so called ………………………………………………… his so called superior
Is a ………………………………………………… kick in the crotch
Many miles away
Something crawls to the …………………………………………………
Of a dark Scottish loch
Another ………………………………………………… day has ended
Only the rush hour ………………………………………………… to face
Packed like lemmings into shiny ………………………………………………… boxes
Contestants in a suicidal race
Daddy crips* the ………………………………………………… & ………………………………………………… alone into the distance
He knows that ………………………………………………… has to break
He sees the family home now looming in his …………………………………………………
The ………………………………………………… upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache
Many miles away
There's a ………………………………………………… on the door
Of a ………………………………………………… on the shore
Of a dark Scottish …………………………………………………
Many miles away
Many miles away
Many miles away...

*crip: Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person or animal that is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limbs.

Words that fit the gaps! (Answer Key)
family; screaming; boredom; know; distance; miles; slime; bottom; industrial; sky; wonder why; tarts; thinks; meeting with; humiliating; surface; working; hell; metal; wheel and stares; something somewhere; headlights; pain; shadow; lake