Arcade – English Lyrics

• By: Duncan Laurence

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

A broken heart is all that's left

I'm still fixing all the cracks

Lost a couple of pieces when

I carried it, carried it, carried it home

I'm afraid of all I am

My mind feels like a foreign land

Silence ringing inside my head

Please, carry me, carry me, carry me home

I've spent all of the love I saved

We were always a losing game

Small-town boy in a big arcade

I got addicted to a losing game

Ooh, ooh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

How many pennies in the slot?

Giving us up didn't take a lot

I saw the end 'fore it begun

Still I carried, I carried, I carry on

Ooh, ooh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

Ooh, ooh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

I don't need your games, game over

Get me off this rollercoaster

Ooh, ooh

All I know, all I know

Ooh, ooh

All I know, all I know

Loving you is a losing game

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
heart /hɑːt/ A1	noun - the organ in your chest that pumps blood noun - feelings
cracks /kræks/ A2	noun - small lines or breaks in a hard surface
lost /lɒst/ A2	adjective - no longer able to find your way
mind /maɪnd/ B1	noun - the part of a person that thinks, feels, and remembers
silence /ˈsaɪləns/ B1	noun - the complete absence of sound
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - an intense feeling of affection
game /ɡeɪm/ A2	noun - a form of play or sport
arcade /ɑːˈkeɪd/ B2	noun - a public place with coin-operated amusement machines
addicted /əˈdɪktɪd/ B2	adjective - having a strong and harmful need to regularly have something
pennies /ˈpeniz/ A2	noun - plural of penny, a small coin
slot /slɒt/ A2	noun - a narrow opening for inserting something
end /end/ A1	noun - the final part of something
carry /ˈkæri/ A2	verb - to hold and transport something
rollercoaster /ˈroʊləˌkoʊstər/ B2	noun - a type of amusement ride
games /ɡeɪmz/ A2	noun - plural of game

Key Grammar Structures

• A broken heart is all that's left

  ➔ Passive Voice (is left)

  ➔ The passive voice is used to emphasize the state of the heart, that something has happened to it rather than who or what did it.

• I'm still fixing all the cracks

  ➔ Present Continuous (I'm fixing)

  ➔ Describes an action happening at the moment of speaking or around the present time.

• I'm afraid of all I am

  ➔ Subject Pronoun (I)

  ➔ Used as the subject of the sentence.

• My mind feels like a foreign land

  ➔ Simile (like a foreign land)

  ➔ Uses "like" to compare the speaker's mind to a foreign land.

• I've spent all of the love I saved

  ➔ Present Perfect (I've spent)

  ➔ Indicates an action that started in the past and continues to the present, or an action completed in the past with results in the present.

• We were always a losing game

  ➔ Past Simple (were)

  ➔ Describes a past state or repeated action.

• I got addicted to a losing game

  ➔ Past Simple (got)

  ➔ Describes a completed action in the past.

• How many pennies in the slot?

  ➔ Question word (How many)

  ➔ Used to inquire about a quantity.

• I saw the end 'fore it begun

  ➔ Contraction ('fore)

  ➔ Contraction of "before", used to create a more informal and poetic tone.

• I don't need your games, game over

  ➔ Auxiliary Verb (don't)

  ➔ Used to form the negative form of the verb "need".