2025-02-11 Alice in Leeds – My Song, My Home

Welcome to My Song, My Home. In this podcast, we travel around the UK and meet musicians. In this episode we visit Leeds, a city in Yorkshire to meet Alice. She tells us how she moved to the city to become a musician and performs her song Okay by the canal.

Vocabulary

canal
a man-made stretch of water where boats can travel between cities

platforms
opportunities to reach the public

popping up
opening suddenly or unexpectedly

warm your voice up
get your voice ready to sing

gigging
performing in concerts

fall out of you
say or write something very easily

speak out loud
say something to another person, rather than in your head

playing games
not being serious or honest enough about your feelings

fall silent
become completely quiet

Lyrics

I wanna scream, so I’ll just sing
Through the things that
I’ll never say to you
And you’ll never whisper back to me
So make believe
Is what it has to be
‘Cause if I left it up to you
Would you believe in me?
Speak out loud
I’m tired of playing games
Do I know if you feel the same
And if silence fell afterward
A moment of giving you more than just my words
I’d lie
And tell you I’m okay
Pretend it’s okay
Pretend it’s okay
Pretend it’s okay
Pretend it’s okay

So a late night show
Is where I’ll have to go
‘Cause sipping next to a stranger is better than
Stitching dreams at home
And I know, I know
Speak out loud
I’m tired of playing games
Do I know if you feel the same
And if silence fell afterward
A moment of giving you more than just my words
I’d cry…
I’d cry
For a line that’s crossed
I’d cry
For a love that’s lost
And I’d kneel down at
The altar of us and
Cry
But tell you it’s okay
Tell you it’s okay
Tell you it’s okay
Tell you it’s okay

Okay by Alice Kim