with Chapman University in nearby Orange, California. In early May, he found about one hundred swallows nesting on buildings just a half-kilometer from the mission.
WALTER PIPER: "This is the first indication that cliff swallows were nesting nearby the mission. Bit by bit, they build these huge nests. So that's what we're seeing. It's cute to see them poke their heads out of there."
Mister Piper says any of these birds could be nesters at the mission in the future. He says they could make the move as early as next spring. And the San Juan Capistrano mission plans to again play Charles Brown's swallow welcome song.
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Break-Up Songs
JUNE SIMMS: When love ends somebody usually feels really bad. Sadness, anger, distrust, and disbelief are some of the feelings that often go along with a break-up. It is emotionally powerful stuff.
Maybe that is one reason why break-up songs are so popular. They seem to pour out of the radio more often than songs about lovers staying together.
Today, Christopher Cruise and I play some break-up songs from today and yesterday and look at the language used in them.
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Gotye performs in April at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: That song is "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Australian singer and songwriter Gotye. Singer Kimbra from New Zealand also is heard on the single. Right now, it is the number one song on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 singles chart. It has been on the chart for twenty-one weeks.
Why is this song so popular? For one thing, it uses a phrase common to break-ups. Gotye sings "you said we would still be friends."
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Men and women often say this during a break-up, but it is not usually true. And it definitely is not the truth in this song.
Gotye sings about being treated like a stranger. He sings that the woman acted as if they never had a relationship. The song expresses anger felt from betrayal and dismissal. It is hard for the listener to not feel sympathetic.
JUNE SIMMS: But then we hear from the former girlfriend. She feels she was "screwed over" or treated unfairly. And yet, she says, he always made her feel like she was to blame.
Finally, Kimbra sings, "I didn't want to live that way / reading into every word you say." Her part expresses a tired defeat and is also easy to sympathize with.
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But, the position of the woman almost did not get written. In fact, Gotye almost gave up on the song. Gotye says he felt blocked after finishing the first verse. And the songwriter says he spent weeks deciding if he should add the female part.
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CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Now we hear a break-up song from an earlier generation. "Don't You Want Me," by the Human League came out in nineteen eighty-one.
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It also includes a male and female point of view. And, as in Gotye's song, the girl is the one who ends the relationship. The boy is hurt.
JUNE SIMMS: The song tells the story of two people who have been together five years. The male character is shocked by the break-up. He suggests the girl owes him something. He says that when they met, she was serving drinks in a bar. He argues that he made her a better, more successful person. "I picked you up, I shook you out / Turned you int
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