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"Wait It Out" Imogen Heap

Listen to Imogen Heap's "Wait it Out" on TED talks:

How does time heal?



Fill in the gaps of the lyrics with the following vocabulary:
  • carry on
  • catch
  • clamber
  • close
  • collapse
  • could
  • crumble
  • cut
  • get
  • go
  • heal
  • lay
  • repeat
  • say
  • see
  • set
  • should
  • sit
  • sweat out
  • turn
  • wait out
  • want
0:21 ♫ Where do we __________ from here? ♫

0:25 ♫ How do we __________ __________? ♫

0:28 ♫ I can't __________ beyond the questions ♫

0:35 ♫ __________ for the scraps ♫ ♫ in the shatter of us, __________ ♫

0:41 ♫ It __________ me with every could have been ♫

0:49 ♫ Pain on pain on play, __________ ♫

0:53 ♫ With the backup, makeshift life in __________ ♫

1:03 ♫ Everybody __________ ♫ ♫ time __________ everything ♫

1:15 ♫ What of the wretched hollow? ♫ ♫ The endless in between? ♫

1:24 ♫ Are we just going to __________ it __________? ♫

1:27 ♫ There is nothing to __________ here now ♫

1:30 ♫ __________ the sign around ♫

1:33 ♫ We're __________ to the Earth 'til further notice ♫

1:40 ♫ A __________ cliche case ♫ ♫ crumpled and puffy faced ♫

1:46 ♫ __________ dead in the stare of a thousand miles ♫

1:54 ♫ All I __________, only one street level miracle ♫

2:00 ♫ I'll be an out and out born again ♫ ♫ from none more cynical ♫

2:05 ♫ Everybody __________ ♫ ♫ that time __________ everything ♫

2:17 ♫ But what of the wretched hollow? ♫ ♫ The endless in between? ♫

2:26 ♫ Are we just going to __________ it __________? ♫ ♫ And __________ here cold? ♫

2:33 ♫ We will be long __________ by then ♫

2:36 ♫ In lackluster ♫

2:38 ♫ In dust we __________ around old magazines ♫

2:42 ♫ Fluorescent lighting __________ the scene ♫

2:45 ♫ for all we __________ and __________ be being ♫

2:49 ♫ in the one life that we've got ♫

2:56 ♫ Everybody __________ ♫

3:03 ♫ time __________ everything ♫

3:09 ♫ And what of the wretched hollow? ♫

3:15 ♫ The endless in between? ♫

3:18 ♫ Are we just going to __________ it __________? ♫

3:25 ♫ Just __________ to __________ it __________? ♫

3:31 ♫ Just __________ to __________ it __________? ♫

3:39 ♫ __________ it __________ ♫ (Applause)