Alive – English Lyrics

• By: Jorja Smith, Wizkid
• Album: What Are The Odds

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the nuances of modern romantic expression through 'Alive.' This song is an excellent study in English emotive vocabulary and rhythm, perfect for learners who enjoy soulful R&B and want to master the conversational phrasing used to describe deep feelings.

[English]

[music]

>> All night,

you make me feel so alive. Don't stop,

how you doing [music] it right.

You make me feel [singing] so alive. We

be up all night.

>> [music]

>> How could you ever think twice?

When it comes to you and I.

You make me feel so alive,

so alive.

It's late, I'm coming over. [singing]

Can't stay [music] away for too long.

I just want you alone. [singing]

Tension's pulling me closer.

>> [music]

>> 10 miles till I can show [singing] you

all I need to keep me satisfied. [music]

And I'll keep you satisfied.

>> [music]

>> I would never leave you for nothing.

[singing]

I would never let you down.

>> [music]

>> I'll turn your world around.

>> [singing]

>> Baby, you say I.

You'll never ever leave me for lonely.

I know we've got a lot to

>> [singing]

>> lose.

>> [music]

>> Let's not complicate things, I'm with

you. All night,

you make me feel so alive.

Don't stop, [music] how you doing it

right.

You make me feel [singing] so alive.

We be up all night.

How [music] could you ever think twice?

When it comes to you and I.

You make me feel [music and singing] so

alive,

so alive.

>> I got the type of loving way going make

you really feel [singing] your best.

>> [music]

>> I give the type of loving way going

[singing] make you want the young dress.

Just they [music] give me slowly on my

game, I make you do your best.

Make you want [music] me tight on me.

Let me show you life, you know. I like

your fine design.

I'll [music] never never you for lonely.

Eventually touching your [singing] body.

Okay, baby, [music] make you and me for

long

we. No go fish steal my love.

I never tell you say [music] we no joke

>> [singing]

>> we. You know I got a lot to lose.

Baby, no complicate our love.

I'm hoping [music] that you stay for

long.

>> You make me feel so alive.

Don't stop what you're doing it

[music and singing] right.

You make me feel so

alive.

How could you ever think twice?

Baby, when it comes to

[music and singing] you, I'm dying.

You make me feel so alive,

>> [music and singing]

>> so alive.

>> I hold you.

Ain't no other person be control you.

Every time I remember [music] your face.

Yeah, you really know how to impress.

[singing]

Yeah.

Make [music] I hold you.

Ain't no other person be the thought

you.

Make I show you love you no good

friends.

Take over the city, [music and singing]

make them jealous. Yeah, yeah.

>> [music]

[music]

[music]

Key Grammar Structures

• How could you ever think twice?

  ➔ Modal verb for possibility/doubt (Could)

  ➔ "Could" is used here to question the logic or possibility of a negative thought.

• I'm coming over.

  ➔ Present Continuous for future arrangements

  ➔ "I'm coming over" expresses a near-future plan that is already in motion.

• I would never leave you for nothing.

  ➔ Conditional 'would' for hypothetical/firm decisions

  ➔ "Would" here emphasizes a firm commitment or a hypothetical stance against an action.

• I know we've got a lot to lose.

  ➔ Present Perfect (have got)

  ➔ "We've got" is a colloquial way of saying "we have," indicating a current state of possession.

• Let's not complicate things.

  ➔ Imperative (negative) for suggestion

  ➔ "Let's not" is used to suggest that both parties should avoid a specific action.

• I got the type of loving way going make you really feel your best.

  ➔ Relative clause (shortened)

  ➔ The relative pronoun "that" is omitted before "going make" to connect the noun to the description.

• Ain't no other person be control you.

  ➔ Double negative (Colloquial/Dialectal)

  ➔ "Ain't no" emphasizes the negative nature of the statement, common in certain musical genres.