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I also added a version from the popular singing contest in Britain, The X Factor. media type="youtube" key="WwfNexdaIdU" width="425" height="350"

**__ Lyrics: __**
"MAD WORLD" - GARY JULES

All around me are familiar faces worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for the daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere Their tears are filling up their glasses No expression, no expression Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow No tomorrow, no tomorrow And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in circles It's a very very, mad world, mad world Children waiting for the day they feel good Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday And I feel the way that every child should Sit and listen, sit and listen Went to school and I was very nervous No one knew me, no one knew me   Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson Look right through me, look right through me   And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in circles It's a very very, mad world, mad world Enlarge your world, mad world "MAD WORLD" – AIDEN GRIMSHAW  A ll around me are familiar faces  worn out places, worn out faces  Bright and early for the daily races  Going nowhere, going nowhere   And I find it kind of funny  I find it kind of sad  The dreams in which I'm dying  Are the best I've ever had  I find it hard to tell you  I find it hard to take  When people run in circles  It's a very very, mad world, mad world   Went to school and I was very nervous  No one knew me, no one knew me <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Look right through me, look right through me <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> And I find it kind of funny <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> I find it kind of sad <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> The dreams in which I'm dying <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> Are the best I've ever had <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> I find it hard to tell you <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> I find it hard to take <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> When people run in circles <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-align: center; text-autospace: none;"> It's a very very, mad world, mad world

__<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal;">﻿ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: normal;">﻿ __ INTRODUCTION

I had heard this song before, but I never stopped to listen the lyrics. I used to listen the melody, I found it quite peaceful. Recently I saw this song in the TV program, The X Factor, and it really made an impact on me. For the first time I was actually listening all of the song, and I was in shock. I had this strange feeling. It felt as if the song had sucked all of me into it, and left me with this bare emotion. Since then I listen to this song quite often, as it makes me feel that I’m not alone, somehow I feel exactly what the singer is trying to express.

When I started searching what the singer wants to transmit, I found out that he wrote this from the point of view of a teenager. What is important about this song is that it is not a grown up man who is lamenting life, but a young child, who feels he has seen all there is to see, and has realized very early, that life is meaningless. He is lamenting this realization, and in a way, has given up. It’s looking out at a mad world, from the point of view of a teenager. This might be the reason why I can somehow relate to it. Although I have to say that the original writers of this song say, “It throws together a lot of different images to paint a picture without saying anything specific about the World”. However in my opinion every picture can be described, and transmit emotions, which are combined. However, I find that the basic picture is a dark, mad world, with no purpose.Life is insane, because people pretend to live.

ANALYSIS

"All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces" -The familiar faces, worn out places, and worn out faces indicate that he has seen all there is to see, and that to him all faces look the same, worn out and tired of life.

"Bright and early for their daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere" -The daily races are our lives, busy and hurried. The narrator conveys the meaning that everybody seems to wake up bright and early, as if for a purpose, but in the end they go nowhere, because there is no purpose in life.

"And their tears are filling up their glasses No expression, no expression  Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow  No tomorrow, no tomorrow" -The tears fill up their glasses, and you can imagine the meaninglessness and bitterness they must feel, if they are to drink their own tears, as the song indicates. To drink your own tears without expression is very extreme, because sadness indicates that there is meaning in life, and something to be sad about, but no expression, and no tomorrow, indicate that the narrator is indifferent, so tired, that he doesn't’t even feel sad or angry, but he would rather like to drown his sorrow.

"And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad  The dreams in which I'm dying  Are the best I've ever had" - The funniness he talks about is a very dark emotion, it is a bitter type of funny that corresponds with sadness. A sad type of funny. This is the way he feels about his life, because he dreams of dying, the only relief from a meaningless life that contains no hope for feelings of purpose and fulfilment.

"I find it hard to tell you 'Cos I find it hard to take  When people run in circles  It's a very, very  Mad World" -The reason he finds it hard to tell you is because he is about to reveal the song's theme, it's ultimate message: THERE IS NO MEANING IN LIFE. He doesn't find this hard to take, but what he DOES find hard to take is that people are still willing to live, which he describes as "running in circles." A Mad World, is not an angry world, but mad as in crazy, insane, meaningless.

"Children waiting for the day they feel good Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday  Made to feel the way that every child should  Sit and listen, sit and listen" -The child stage is the most innocent part of human life, and their desires are innocent, they just want to feel good, like the type of happiness a child feels during his birthday. But I should point out that the narrator wants us to consider why we as humans feel the need to celebrate the birth of our lives, which he views in an ironic tone, consistent with the feeling of the song. "Happy birthday", and "sit and listen" are repeated twice, to sound mechanical, routine, and ultimately meaningless. Even to sit and listen, to try and learn the meaning of life, is in a way, meaningless.

"Went to school and I was very nervous No one knew me, no one knew me" -School is a social place, not just a place for learning. It is where people interact. This is where he is nervous, where he feels isolated, and alone. He finds himself insignificant.

"Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson Look right through me, look right through me" -The teacher is a figure of authority. Although the teacher teaches lessons of life, he/she looks right through the young narrator. Once again the narrator reminds us that we are insignificant.

TASK // FILL THE GAPS: //

Happy Birthday, …………………………. And I feel the way that every child should Sit and listen, ………………………. Went to school and I was very ………………………. No one knew me, ……………………… Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson Look right through me, ………………………….. And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm ……………………. Are the best I've ever had I find it hard to tell you I find it hard to take When people run in ……………………. It's a very very, ……………………….., …………………… Enlarge your w………………, ……………………….