Beastie Boys
Something’s Got to Give lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 1992
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:28
I reach for peace between the races
Someday we shall all be one
Why fight yourself?
This one is called Rectify
There's something coming to the surface
There's fire all around
But this is all illusion
I've seen better days than this one
I've seen better nights than this one
Tension is building
Something's got to give
Something's got to give
Someday we shall all be one
Jesus Christ, right
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Key vocabulary
- give
- hand overA1
- something
- an unknown objectA1
- surface
- top or outer layerB1
- why
- for what reasonA1
- yourself
- you, aloneA1
- fight
- struggle againstA2
- peace
- calm; no fightingA2
- reach
- get to; touchA2
- around
- in a circular areaA1
- illusion
- false idea or appearanceB2
About this song
Beastie Boys were an American hip-hop group from New York, mixing rap with punk, funk, and jazz. They are known for albums like Licensed to Ill and Paul’s Boutique, which helped define late-1980s rap, along with the MTV hit “Sabotage.”