It's Not Easy by Lucky Dube
Lord have mercy
I remember the day I called mama on the telephone
I told her mama I'm getting married
I could hear her voice on the other side
Of the telephone she was smiling
And she asked me a question
That I proudly answered
She said son did you take time
To know her?
I said mama, she is the best
But today it hurts me so to go back to
Mama and say
Mama I'm getting divorced
(Oh) I'm (1)______________ divorced
The (2)____________ I made didn't work out the way
I thought it would
This choice I made
It hurts me so mama
This choice I (3)________ didn't work out the way
I thought it would
This choice of (4)________ (oh)
Mama said to me
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
It's not easy to (5)____________________ it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
I remember in church
When the preacher man (6)________ the scriptures
You looked so beautiful, so beautiful
And so innocent
I did not know that behind (7)________ beauty
Lies the true colours that will (8)______________ me
In the near future
This choice I made didn't (9)________ out to be
What I thought it would be
(Oh) mama this choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
Now I'm hurting
I remember when I held you by the hand
Preacher man read the scriptures
Putting words in your mouth
Maybe what the preacher man said
Was not something that was within you
Now I know what they (10)________ when they say
Beautiful woman
Is another man's plaything
(Oh) lord, I'm hurting now
This choice I made didn't work out the way
I thought it would
This choice of mine (oh)
Mama said to me
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
(You'll be happy again)
I remember the day I called mama on the telephone
I told her mama I'm getting married
I could hear her voice on the other side
Of the telephone she was smiling
And she asked me a question
That I proudly answered
She said son did you take time
To know her?
I said mama, she is the best
But today it hurts me so to go back to
Mama and say
Mama I'm getting divorced
(Oh) I'm (1)______________ divorced
The (2)____________ I made didn't work out the way
I thought it would
This choice I made
It hurts me so mama
This choice I (3)________ didn't work out the way
I thought it would
This choice of (4)________ (oh)
Mama said to me
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
It's not easy to (5)____________________ it son
But I hope you'll make it
You'll be happy again
I remember in church
When the preacher man (6)________ the scriptures
You looked so beautiful, so beautiful
And so innocent
I did not know that behind (7)________ beauty
Lies the true colours that will (8)______________ me
In the near future
This choice I made didn't (9)________ out to be
What I thought it would be
(Oh) mama this choice I made
Didn't work out the way I thought it would
Now I'm hurting
I remember when I held you by the hand
Preacher man read the scriptures
Putting words in your mouth
Maybe what the preacher man said
Was not something that was within you
Now I know what they (10)________ when they say
Beautiful woman
Is another man's plaything
(Oh) lord, I'm hurting now
This choice I made didn't work out the way
I thought it would
This choice of mine (oh)
Mama said to me
It's not easy to understand it son
But I hope you'll make it
(You'll be happy again)
Answers:
(1) getting(2) choice(3) made(4) mine(5) understand(6) read(7) that(8) destroy(9) work(10) mean