back to friends – English Lyrics

• By: sombr
• Album: I Barely Know Her

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Touch my body tender

'Cause the feeling makes me weak

Kicking off the covers

I see the ceiling, while you're looking down at me

How can we go back to being friends

When we just shared a bed?

How can you look at me and pretend

I'm someone you've never met?

It was last December

You were layin' on my chest

I still remember

I was scared to take a breath, didn't want you to move your head

How can we go back to being friends

When we just shared a bed? (Yeah)

How can you look at me and pretend

I'm someone you've never met?

The devil in your eyes

Won't deny the lies

You've sold, I'm holding on too tight

While you let go, this is casual

...

How can we go back to being friends

When we just shared a bed? (Yeah)

How can you look at me and pretend

I'm someone you've never met?

How can we go back to being friends

When we just shared a bed? (Yeah)

How can you look at me and pretend

I'm someone you've never met?

I'm someone you've never met

Oh yeah

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
touch /tʌtʃ/ A2	verb - to make physical contact with another person or thing noun - the act of making contact
body /ˈbɒd.i/ A1	noun - the physical structure of a person or animal
feeling /ˈfiː.lɪŋ/ A2	noun - an emotional state or reaction
weak /wiːk/ B1	adjective - lacking strength or power
kicking /ˈkɪk.ɪŋ/ B1	verb (gerund/participle) - to strike out with the foot
ceiling /ˈsiː.lɪŋ/ B2	noun - the upper interior surface of a room
friends /frɛndz/ A2	noun - people whom one knows and who like and support them
shared /ʃɛərd/ B1	verb (past participle) - to have in common with others
bed /bɛd/ A1	noun - a piece of furniture for sleeping
pretend /prɪˈtɛnd/ B2	verb - to act as if something is true when it is not
someone /ˈsʌm.wʌn/ A2	pronoun - an unspecified person
met /mɛt/ A2	verb - to come into the presence of someone
last /læst/ A2	adjective - most recent or final in a sequence
remember /rɪˈmɛm.bər/ B1	verb - to recall something from the past

Key Grammar Structures

• Touch my body tender

  ➔ Imperative mood and adjective order

  ➔ The sentence starts with a verb in the **imperative** mood (command). 'Tender' is an adjective modifying 'body' and is placed after it.

• How can we go back to being friends

  ➔ Modal verb 'can' and gerund phrase

  ➔ 'Can' is a modal verb expressing ability or possibility. 'Being friends' is a gerund phrase acting as the object of the preposition 'to'.

• When we just shared a bed?

  ➔ Past simple tense and question formation.

  ➔ The use of the past simple tense 'shared'. The question is formed by inverting the subject and auxiliary/modal verb (in this case, the auxiliary is implied because the main verb is in past simple: did we...)

• How can you look at me and pretend

  ➔ Modal verb and infinitive verb

  ➔ Uses the modal verb 'can' to express ability or possibility. It's followed by the base form of the verb 'look' and the infinitive 'pretend'.

• I'm someone you've never met?

  ➔ Present perfect and question form

  ➔ Uses the present perfect tense ('have' + past participle) to express an action that has not happened before. The question reverses the subject and auxiliary to form the question.

• You were layin' on my chest

  ➔ Past continuous tense

  ➔ This uses the past continuous tense ('was/were' + -ing form) to describe an action in progress at a specific time in the past.

• I was scared to take a breath, didn't want you to move your head

  ➔ Use of 'to + infinitive', past simple and reported speech.

  ➔ The sentence utilizes the structure of 'to + infinitive' ('to take') following the adjective 'scared'. It also contains the past simple tense 'didn't want' which implies reported speech.

• The devil in your eyes

  ➔ Prepositional phrase and noun phrase.

  ➔ Uses a prepositional phrase 'in your eyes' to describe the location, functioning as an adjective modifying 'The devil'. 'The devil' is a noun phrase.

• Won't deny the lies

  ➔ Modal verb and noun phrase.

  ➔ Uses the modal verb 'won't' (will not) and the base form 'deny'. Followed by the noun phrase 'the lies', functioning as the object of the verb.

• While you let go, this is casual

  ➔ Conjunction 'while' and adjective use.

  ➔ Uses the conjunction 'while' to show contrast or simultaneous actions. 'Casual' functions as a subject complement, describing 'this'.