This document is a student assignment analyzing the grammar and tenses used in the Rolling Stones song "Angie" and the song "Epiphany" from the musical Sweeney Todd. It examines the tenses, modality, and voice used in different lyrics. In part 1, it analyzes the simple future, simple past, and simple present tenses in "Angie" lyrics. Part 2 discusses modality and meanings conveyed through tense in "Angie". Part 3 examines use of the simple present tense and voice in examples from "Epiphany".

1. Assignment 2: Grammar in Music.
Student’s Name: María de los Angeles Betancur Murillo.
Song: Angie.
Performed by: Rolling Stones.
Part 1: Tenses
Example 1:
Context When will those clouds all disappear?
Tense Name Simple Future
Use Use 3: Prediction based on experience
Example 2:
Context All the dreams we held so close
Seemed to all go up on a smoke
Tense Name Simple Past
Use Use 1: Action in a specific time in the past
Example 3:
Context Let me whisper in your ear
Tense Name Simple Present
Use Use 7: Narrations, instructions or commentaries
Part 2: Modality
Example 1:
Context Where will it lead us from here?
Tense Name Simple Future
Meaning Prediction
Example 2:
Context You can't say we never tried

2. Tense Name Simple Present
Meaning Inability
Song: Epiphany.
Performed by: Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter (Sweeney Todd Soundtrack).
Part 3: Voice
Example 1:
Context There's a hole in the world like a great black pit
And it's filled with people who are filled with sh*t
And the vermin of the world inhabit it.
Tense Name Simple Present
Example 2:
Context Don't we all deserve to die?
Even you, Mrs. Lovett, even I.
Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief
For the rest of us death will be a relief
We all deserve to die.
Tense Name Simple Present