Alexander Nathan "Alex" Etel (born 19 September 1994) is an English child actor.
Etel was born in a hospital on the outskirts of Manchester, the son of Nicholette Etel and Jason Hartley. Etel is the middle child of his family, he has a younger brother, Daniel Etel and an older sister, Rebecca Etel. He went to Lum Head Primary School in Gatley.
Etel was born in Manchester. His film debut was the starring role of Damian Cunningham in 2004's Millions, a family film directed by Danny Boyle. He played the lead in his second film, Jay Russell's The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. The film, based on a Dick King Smith story about a boy who adopts a monster sea creature, opened in North America on Christmas Day, 2007 and in other countries in early 2008. The film is set in Scotland during World War II, although all the scenes involving the creature itself were shot in New Zealand.
Etel also played the bright-eyed ragamuffin Harry Gregson in the six-part TV adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford" for the BBC and WGBH, which was transmitted on BBC 1 in the autumn of 2007 and co-starred Philip Glenister, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Francesca Annis and Imelda Staunton. He reprised his role in the two-part second series entitled Return to Cranford.
We smelled your soup on the fire cooking
We saw your toys and your pencils looking bright
So bright and yet they come from oh so far away
We heard your flags and your banners flapping
We felt the air from from your hands all clapping time
In time, I'm sure your time is not so far away
Millions, all moving forward
Millions, all babbling crossword
Millions, all flow at water
Millions, all bright with laughter
He make you glowing
He bake you golden like a yangtse mud
I saw your writing on paper landing
Your stamps showed bridges and temples standing still
So still, and yet they're standing oh so far away
I saw you asking for western thinking
I say it's poison that you'll be drinking
I open my umbrella
And i put on my coat
And a waterproof make-up
Just the way i've been told
I put my favorite dress on
And the best of my socks
Take a bath and a shower
And the soap from the box
With one hand at the papers
I stir around in my cup
Put bread in the toaster
And the juice in the mug
There could come millions of you
And i might trip but would not fall
As i look out the window
It's chucking it down
And i pull up the curtain
I hear the noise of my town
Wipe the sleep off my eyes
I switch off the clock
Had the funniest dream
Click clock tick tock
There could come millions of you
Millions and millions and millions
of planets in the universe
millions and millions and millions
have life just like earth
they got death and birth
they got death and birth
millions and millions and millions
of years came and went
millions and millions and millions
of lives have all been spent
without no rent
they didn't have to pay no rent
chorus:
the whole world isn't ready
the whole world isn't ready to sing along
the whole world isn't ready at all
millions and millions and millions
of stars up above
millions and millions and millions
of ways to show your love
when push comes to shove
you gotta show your love
millions and millions and millions
of songs yet to be sung
millions and millions and millions
of hearts yet to be won
they don't have no fun
and we're all one
chorus
love, love, love is the only thing worth a damn
and love, love, love makes me who i am
not uncle sam
he doesn't know who i am
Million of times you cry
Million of times you smile
Baby, baby, tell me why
Everytime it is a lie.
A million of girls can touch,
A million of boys that watch
Millions of boys and girls together
Swear their love will last forever.
Millions of days and nights
Millions of boys and girls say lies
Baby, tell me why do you lie?
Everytime you seem to cry.
Refren(x2):
You are, you are lying
Always keep on crying
You are, you are lying
You are, you are lying...
III:
A million of times I need you
A million of times I'll hld you
Baby, say me no more lies
I love you million of times.
I:..
If I can just make it up there,
and if I can walk through that city bright and fair;
there'd probably be a thousand things
I want to tell the Lord on that day.
I'll just begin to cry,
You'll wipe the tears from my eyes,
I'll say thanks, You'll ask why,
this will be my reply, You know...
Chorus:
Millions didn't make it,
but I was one of the ones who did.
Millions didn't make it,
but I was one of the ones who did.
Verse 2:
There'd probably be a thousand things
that I wanna tell the Lord on that day.
I'll just begin to cry,
You'll wipe the tears from my eyes,
I'll say thanks, You'll ask why,
this will be my reply, You know...
Vamp 1:
Millions didn't make it,
but I was one of the ones who did.
Millions didn't make it,
one of the ones who did.
Millions didn't make it,
but I was one of the ones...
(You see) I made it over,
(I came through hard trials and tribulations, persecutions);
(I was one of the ones who did).
Vamp 2:
I made it over,
[Chorus:]
Bring It On It Culd B Millions
We Gotta Have It, We Gotta Have It
Dnt U Know This Culd B Millions
We Gotta Have It, We Gotta Have It
Six Of Us Crashed In The Bck
Wid Nothing To Lose Not Tonite
We'll Come Bck In A Cadillac
Hotel, To The Motel, To The Holiday Inn
We'll Stay Up All Nite Gambling
Feeling Kinda Lucky Thats The Truth
Breezin Through
We'll Beat This Crazy Town
Till Its Black And Blue
[Chorus x2]
A Guy Starts Talking By The Wheel
Take A Chance Roll The Dice
The Way He Sees It Thats The Deal
Wot Goes Down Must Rise Above
Now My Ship Is Coming In I'll Buy U Lunch
And Everything
Feeling Kinda Mad And Thats The Truth
Breezin Through
We'll Beat This Crazy Town
Till Its Black And Blue
[Chorus x2]
I'm Gonna Get This Money
I'd Rather Burn It Than Give It Away
I'm Gonna Get This Money
I'm Gonna Get This Money
I'd Rather Burn It Than Give It Away
I'm Gonna Get This Money
[Chorus x4]
I'm Gonna Get This Money [x3]
Always complaining
Scared by the past
Need someone to blame
You'll never last
Put you in your place
Haunted by your face
Fear of what you are
Guilty by far
Marching for your rights
These forgotten ways
You don't realize
This time no one pays
Society, can't you see
You're no different than me
Betrayed by your own kind
Not just facts but reality
Overpopulation
They breed like rats
Standing for one nation
Under a God who laughs
Always...
...you'll never last
Condemned, by what you've become
Criminally infested
Guilty, for all you have done
Surround by millions
Society...
Overpopulation...