5-Minute Listening Exercise: Practise your English with 'As a Child'

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Scroll down for lyrics and click here for answers. 

Let me just tell you I really should go back to sleep
It's not that I'm ungrateful, I have too many memories to keep
I wish you could feel just how heavy I am all the time
Sometimes when I smile, I bite my lip so I don't cry

And it burns for a while
And it hurts all the more
When you carry the world as a child 

All that I've wanted is to talk to someone who is dead
But unfortunately I can't call him, so I sing instead
Though I'd never tell you to cover yourself in a lie
But I will still bite my lip harder so that I don't cry

And it burns for a while
And it hurts all the more
When you carry the world as a child 

And I burn for myself
'Cause I know that I should
When it's screaming at me to be felt 

And we burn all the time
'Cause it hurts all the more
When we carry the world as a child


1. A
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. D
6. D
7. C
8. B
9. A
10. C

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