All My Friends – English Lyrics

• By: Snakehips, Tinashe, Chance the Rapper

Lyrics & Translation

Learning a language through music can be a fun and immersive experience, and "All My Friends" offers a great opportunity to dive into contemporary English with its blend of singing and rapping. The song uses conversational language and slang that you'd hear in everyday interactions, particularly among young adults. The relatable theme of feeling out of place at a party and the song's catchy, repetitive chorus make it easier to pick up new phrases and understand the nuances of informal English expression.

[English]

(gentle music)

♪ We open with the vultures, kissing the cannibals ♪

♪ Sure, I get lonely, when I'm the only ♪

♪ Only human in the heaving heat of the animals ♪

♪ Bit of brown salt, stinging on my tongue ♪

♪ I will not waver, heart will not wait it's turn ♪

♪ It will beat, it will burn, burn ♪

♪ Burn your love into the ground ♪

♪ With the lips of another ♪

♪ 'Til you get lonely, sure I get lonely ♪

♪ Sometimes ♪

♪ All my friends are wasted ♪

♪ And I hate this club ♪

♪ Man I drink too much ♪

♪ Another Friday night I wasted ♪

♪ My eyes are black and red ♪

♪ I'm crawling back to you babe ♪

♪ I hit the bar ♪

♪ Pharmacy addict hit a Wall Street traffic ♪

♪ To the car ♪

♪ We reinvent the wheel just to fall asleep at it, skrr ♪

♪ Crash on the floor, catch the Z, Z, Z's ♪

♪ Popping a polar opposite, the NZP ♪

♪ Hip hop and the propaganda say they name brand ♪

♪ But I done seen how the, did my main man ♪

♪ The nights you won't remember ♪

♪ Are the nights you won't remember ♪

♪ I be gone 'til November, on my city come December ♪

♪ Dreams are made for cages nigga, lions are for real nigga ♪

♪ Dying is for real, niggas dying off of pills nigga ♪

♪ Friday's awful chill and I just came to catch a re ♪

♪ I just had to rest in peace the recipe ♪

♪ The rest of us are praying that the sand will leave a tan ♪

♪ If you're up right now, hope you hear what I'm saying ♪

♪ All my friends are wasted ♪

♪ And I hate this club ♪

♪ Man I drink too much ♪

♪ Another Friday night I wasted ♪

♪ My eyes are black and red ♪

♪ I'm crawling back to you babe ♪

♪ Do you get lonely ♪

♪ Sure I get lonely some nights ♪

♪ When the angels on my shoulder ♪

♪ Slump my head ♪

♪ I'm stuck here with the vultures ♪

♪ Hissing and circling ♪

♪ You didn't call me, call me, call me, call me ♪

♪ I'm crawling, crawling, crawling back to you ♪

♪ All my friends are wasted ♪

♪ And I hate this club ♪

♪ Man, I drink too much ♪

♪ Another Friday night I wasted ♪

♪ My eyes are black and red ♪

♪ I'm crawling back to your bed ♪

♪ All my friends are wasted ♪

♪ And I hate this club ♪

♪ Man, I drink too much ♪

♪ Another Friday night I wasted ♪

♪ My eyes are black and red ♪

♪ I'm crawling back to your bed ♪

(gentle music)

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
vulture /ˈvʌltʃər/ B2	noun - a bird that feeds on dead animals
lonely /ˈloʊnli/ B1	adjective - feeling sad because one has no friends or company
wasted /ˈweɪstɪd/ B2	adjective - extremely drunk or high
crawl /krɔːl/ B1	verb - to move on hands and knees
drink /drɪŋk/ A1	verb - to take a liquid into the mouth and swallow it
heart /hɑːrt/ A1	noun - the organ in your chest that sends the blood around your body
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - a strong feeling of affection verb - to feel deep affection for someone
night /naɪt/ A1	noun - the time of day when it is dark outside
bar /bɑːr/ A2	noun - a place where drinks are served
traffic /ˈtræfɪk/ B1	noun - the vehicles moving on a road
dream /driːm/ A2	noun - a series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep
city /ˈsɪti/ A1	noun - a large town
sand /sænd/ A1	noun - small, loose grains of rock

Key Grammar Structures

• Sure, I get lonely, when I'm the only

  ➔ Adjective Clause with "when"

  ➔ The clause "when I'm the only" modifies the feeling of being "lonely". "When" introduces a specific circumstance causing the loneliness.

• All my friends are wasted

  ➔ Passive Voice (informal)

  ➔ Although it's not a perfect example of passive voice, “wasted” acts as an adjective here. It implies that 'my friends' have been rendered 'wasted' by something (likely alcohol or drugs). More formally, it could be expressed as "All my friends *are being* wasted".

• Man I drink too much

  ➔ Adverb of Degree - "too"

  ➔ "Too" modifies "much", indicating an excessive amount of drinking. It emphasizes that the speaker drinks more than what is acceptable or healthy.

• Another Friday night I wasted

  ➔ Reduced Relative Clause (omitted "that"/"which")

  ➔ The sentence is a shortened version of "Another Friday night *that* I wasted." The relative pronoun "that" (or "which") is omitted, making it a more concise and informal expression.

• I hit the bar

  ➔ Simple Past Tense

  ➔ The verb "hit" is in the simple past tense, indicating a completed action in the past. It means the speaker went to the bar.

• The nights you won't remember

  ➔ Future in the Past (using "won't")

  ➔ "Won't remember" indicates a future action viewed from a past perspective. It signifies that at some point in the past, it was certain that the person wouldn't remember those nights.

• I be gone 'til November

  ➔ Non-standard use of "be" (habitual or future)

  ➔ The use of "be" instead of "will be" or "am going to be" is a feature of African American Vernacular English (AAVE). It indicates a state or action that will persist until a specified time (November). It emphasizes the continuing nature of the absence.

• Dying is for real, niggas dying off of pills nigga

  ➔ Gerund as Subject; Prepositional Phrase "off of"

  ➔ "Dying" is a gerund acting as the subject of the sentence. "Off of" is a non-standard, but commonly used, prepositional phrase indicating the cause of death (pills).