All Good – English Lyrics

• By: Jhené Aiko
• Album: Chilombo Deluxe

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the introspective world of Jhené Aiko's "All Good", a song that navigates the complexities of relationships and the search for inner peace. By exploring themes of communication, vulnerability, and forgiveness, this track offers a unique opportunity to understand emotional expression and the power of mantras in modern R&B.

[English]

Why you let me hurt you so bad?

Why you let me get you so mad?

Something I do not understand

Dealing with a delicate man

Why you? Why you?

Why you so sensitive? (Yeah)

Why you? Why you?

Why you so serious? (Yeah)

Just when it's turning into something good

Just when it's turning out the way that it should

Think you should let it be the way that it could

If you just let it be, then it would be good, all good, all-

Why you let me do you like that?

Hanging on every word I said, uh

Something I do not understand

You should leave the past in the past

Why you? Why you?

Why you so serious? (Yeah)

Why you? Why you?

Why you so sensitive? (Yeah)

Just when it's turning into something good

Just when it's turning out the way that it should

Think you should let it be the way that it could

If you just let it be, then it would be good, all good, all good

All good, all good, all good

All good, all good, all good

All good, all good, all good

All good, all good, all good

Why you ain't you? (All good, all good, all good) Why?

Why you ain't you? (Why? I'm just, we might be up here)

Why you ain't you? (Why?)

Why you ain't you? (Why? All good, all good, all good)

Why you ain't you? (Why?)

Why you let me hurt you so bad? (Right)

If you just let it be

Then it would be good (all good, all good, all good)

If you just let it be then it would be good

All good, all good, all good, all good

All good, all good, all good

...

Key Grammar Structures

• Why you let me hurt you so bad?

  ➔ Question formation with omitted auxiliary

  ➔ The auxiliary verb "do" is omitted. In standard English the sentence would be "Why **do** you let me...", but informal speech often drops "do".

• Just when it's turning into something good

  ➔ Present continuous (progressive) tense

  ➔ The verb "turning" is in the present continuous form, showing an action that is happening around the moment of speaking.

• If you just let it be, then it would be good

  ➔ Second conditional (hypothetical present/future)

  ➔ The clause uses "would be" to describe an imagined result. This is the classic second conditional structure: "If + past simple, would + base verb".

• You should leave the past in the past

  ➔ Modal verb for advice (should)

  ➔ The modal "should" is used to give a recommendation: "You **should** leave...".

• Why you so sensitive?

  ➔ Ellipsis in questions (omitted verb "are")

  ➔ The verb "are" is omitted: the full form would be "Why **are** you so sensitive?".

• Why you ain't you?

  ➔ Non‑standard contraction (ain't)

  ➔ "Ain't" is an informal, non‑standard contraction for "am not / is not / are not". Here it replaces "are not".

• Hanging on every word I said

  ➔ Present participle phrase (gerund‑like)

  ➔ "Hanging" is a present participle that introduces a clause functioning as an adverbial phrase: "**Hanging** on every word I said..."

• Think you should let it be the way that it could

  ➔ Relative clause with modal verb

  ➔ The phrase "the way **that it could**" is a relative clause where the modal "could" expresses possibility within the clause.