All The Little Lights – English Lyrics
Lyrics & Translation
Explore Passenger's 'All The Little Lights' and learn about the power of metaphor in songwriting. This reflective song uses the concept of fading lights to explore themes of growing up, loss, and the human experience, offering a poignant yet unifying message that encourages listeners to find light even in moments of darkness .
[English]
One went out at a bus stop in EdinburghOne went out in an English pub
One went out in a nightclub when I was fifteen
Little lights in my heart
One went out when I lied to my mother
Said the cigarettes she found were not mine
One went out within me, now I smoke like a chimney
Its getting dark in this heart of mine
Its getting dark in this heart of mine
We're born with millions of little lights shining in the dark
And they show us the way
One lights up
Every time you feel love in your heart
One dies when it moves away
One went out in the backstreets of Manchester
One went out in an airport in Spain
One went out, I've no doubt
When I grew up and moved out
Of the place where the boy used to play
One went out when uncle Ben got his tumour
We used to fish, and I fish no more
Though he will not return
I know one still burns
On a fishing boat off the New Jersey shore
On a fishing boat off the New Jersey shore
We're born with millions of little lights shining in the dark
And they show us the way
One lights up
Every time we feel love in our hearts
One dies when it moves away
We're born with millions of little lights shining in our hearts
And they die along the way
'Til we're old and we're cold
And we're lying in the dark
'Cause they'll all burn out one day
They'll all burn out one day, oh
They'll all burn out one day
They'll all burn out one day, yeah, oh
Key Vocabulary
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light /laɪt/ A2 |
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dark /dɑrk/ A2 |
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heart /hɑrt/ A2 |
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burn /bɜrn/ B1 |
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show /ʃoʊ/ A2 |
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feel /fiːl/ A2 |
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move /muːv/ A2 |
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die /daɪ/ B1 |
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cigarette /ˌsɪɡəˈrɛt/ B2 |
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tumour /ˈtjuːmə/ C1 |
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fishing /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/ A2 |
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million /ˈmɪljən/ A1 |
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place /pleɪs/ A2 |
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boy /bɔɪ/ A1 |
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Key Grammar Structures
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One went out at a bus stop in Edinburgh
➔ Past simple tense
➔ Used to describe a completed action in the past
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One went out in an English pub
➔ Preposition 'in' for location
➔ 'in' is used to specify the location where the action took place
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One went out when I lied to my mother
➔ Simple past tense in both clauses
➔ Both actions are completed in the past and are presented in the simple past tense
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And they show us the way
➔ Present simple tense
➔ Used to describe habitual actions or general truths
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One dies when it moves away
➔ Present simple tense (for general truth)
➔ Expresses a universal truth or habitual fact
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We're born with millions of little lights shining in our hearts
➔ Passive voice and present continuous tense
➔ Combines passive voice with the present participle to describe ongoing conditions
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They'll all burn out one day
➔ Future simple tense with 'will'
➔ Expresses a future certainty or prediction
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