"If I Were Sorry"
I’d crawl through the desert on my hands and knees [pic]
Rehearsin’ my pretty please
Climb the highest mountain
If I were sorry
Shout it from the top
Swim under water until my lungs exploded
Walk into the fire
If I were sorry
I’d run a thousand miles
Wouldn’t stop until I dropped
Wouldn’t take a break to breathe until I got close
Enough
Then I’d do it all again
If I really had the chance
But I know deep inside for you it’s just another
dance
If I were sorry
I’d give you all the glory
if I were sorry
If I were sorry
it would be a different story
If I were sorry
if I were sorry oh
I’d hold my breath till my face turned blue
I’d rob a bank and the post office too
Swim across the ocean
If I were sorry
I’d take a vow of silence
I wouldn’t say a single word
Until you really heard
If I were sorry
I’d run a thousand miles
Wouldn’t stop until I dropped
Wouldn’t take the break to breathe
Until I got close enough
If I were sorry
I’d give you all the glory
if I were sorry
If I were sorry
it would be a different story
if I were sorry oh
Now did you ever realise
that your mistake had a prize
oh you threw it all away
’cause you’re the devil in disguise
Now would you ever realise
the consequences of your lies
and would you save the falling tear or act as if
there’s nothing there
If I were sorry
if I were sorry
If I were sorry
if I were sorry
If I were sorry
I’d take a vow of silence
I wouldn’t say a single word
if I were sorry
If I were sorry
I’d be on my hands and knees
Beggin' pretty please
if I were sorry
but I’m not sorry, no
Un unreal conditional sentence expresses events that are hypothetical or unreal. Some “if” clauses use “were” even if the pronoun is singular. In these statements, the writer is specifying an event is impossible in the present.
In addition, unreal conditional “if” clauses refer to event in the present, as in “If I were you, I would not do this.” In truth, the speaker is telling their audience “I am not you.”
Consider the following sentences:
If he were here right now, he would help us.
In this sentence, the speaker is really saying “He is not here right now.”
Answer the questions
Is the singer sorry? ______________________
What would he do if he were sorry? Find five examples.
He would ___________________________________________________.
He would ___________________________________________________.
He would ___________________________________________________.
He would ___________________________________________________.
He would ___________________________________________________.
2. Complete
I would call him and apologize. I ___________ do that If I _______________ (be) you. But I’m not you…
What would you ____________ (say) if I _____________ (tell) a secret?
If I _______________(be) offered a job in USA, I ________________ (not take.) It’s too far.
If I _______________ (wake) up and ____________ (see) a snake in my room, I ______________ (probably/run) – not just out of my room, but out of the house!
3. Rewrite the sentences using the second conditional.
I don’t have his phone number. I can´t call him.
If I _______________________________________________________________
I feel terrible I can’t go to school.
I _________________________________________________________________
My parents don’t like him because he looks so strange.
If he _____________________________________________________________
He doesn’t get the good marks because he is lazy.
He _______________________________________________________________
