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Integrated Course Book 4 Unit 6 Listen to the recording two or three times and then think over the following questions: 1. Do you keep a diary? What sort of things do you write about?2. How does the singer treat his diary? Why?3. What does the singer think about how other people spend their time?4. Can we infer what attitude the singer takes towards the pace of life today? ?In the song you are about to listen to we hear what the singer is thinking as he writes his diary. Like many people who keep a diary, he treats it like a friend to whom he can pour out his inmost feelings. From the confidences he entrusts to his diary we learn of what he thinks of the way most people live. He thinks they spend their days in a rush, so much so that they have no time for him. As he says:????So many people by the score.????Rushing around so senselessly.????They dont notice theres people like me.????Perhaps hes right, perhaps people are too much in a rush to spare enough time for one another. Though one suspects they may have other reasons for not sparing the singer time. He sounds altogether self-centred, looking at the world only from his own narrow point of view. We hear this at the end of the song, when he passes lightly over an H-bomb explosion as something of no concern to him as nobody he knew was involved. Given his outlook, it is probably just as well he has his diary as a friend, as others might find it a bit hard to put up with him. Dear Diary???????????????????The Moody Blues Dear diary, what a day its beenDear diary, its been just like a dreamWoke up too late. Wasnt where I should have beenFor goodness sake whats happening to meWrite lightly, yours truly, dear diaryIt was cold outside my doorSo many people by the scoreRushing around so senselesslyThey dont notice theres people like meWrite lightly, yours truly, dear diaryThey dont know what theyre playingTheyve no way of knowing what the game isStill they carry on doing what they canOutside me,