Bad Decisions – English Lyrics

• By: The Strokes
• Album: The New Abnormal

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

♪ ♪ ♪

♪ Dropped down the lights, I’m sitting with you ♪

♪ Moscow 1972 ♪

♪ Always singing in my sleep ♪

♪ I will leave it in my dreams ♪

♪ Oh making bad decisions oh making bad decisions ♪

♪ Oh making bad decisions for you ♪

♪ Oh making bad decisions oh making bad decisions ♪

♪ Oh making bad decisions for you ♪

♪ Pick up your gun Put up your gloves ♪

♪ Save us from harm Safe or alone ♪

♪ Oh baby, I hang on everything you say, ♪

♪ I wanna write down every word ♪

♪ Do me a favor when you come through ♪

♪ When I look around don’t wanna see you ♪

♪ I don’t take advice from fools ♪

♪ Never listening to you ♪

♪ Oh making bad decisions ya making bad decisions ♪

♪ Oh making bad decisions for you ♪

♪ Oh making bad decisions Oh-oh-oh-oh making bad decisions ♪

♪ Oh making bad decisions for you ♪

♪ Pick up your gun Put up those gloves ♪

♪ Save us from harm Safe or alone ♪

♪ You - you didn’t listen to me ♪

♪ But I - I didn’t listen to you ♪

♪ ♪ ♪

♪ I waited so long ♪

♪ Listening for something to join ♪

♪ Oh making bad decisions really, really bad decisions ♪

♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh making bad decisions, oh yeah ♪

♪ yeah ♪

♪ ooooh ♪

♪ I’m not gonna give a lotta praise ♪

♪ I don’t know how to use power (tools) ♪

♪ Cause I can’t, I can’t ♪

♪ I can’t, can’t make any more ♪

♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪

Key Grammar Structures

• Dropped down the lights, I’m sitting with you

  ➔ Present Continuous Tense

  ➔ The phrase 'I’m sitting' uses the present continuous tense to describe an action happening now.

• Always singing in my sleep

  ➔ Present Continuous with 'Always'

  ➔ 'Always' is used with the present continuous to emphasize a habitual action.

• Oh making bad decisions for you

  ➔ Present Continuous for Repeated Actions

  ➔ The present continuous is used here to indicate repeated actions or a temporary situation.

• I wanna write down every word

  ➔ Modal Verb 'Wanna' (Informal)

  ➔ 'Wanna' is an informal contraction of 'want to', used in spoken English.

• When I look around don’t wanna see you

  ➔ Negative Contraction with 'Don’t'

  ➔ 'Don’t wanna' is a contraction of 'do not want to', used for negation.

• I don’t take advice from fools

  ➔ Present Simple Negative

  ➔ The sentence uses the present simple negative to state a general truth or habit.

• You didn’t listen to me

  ➔ Past Simple Negative

  ➔ The past simple negative is used to describe a completed action that did not happen.

• I’m not gonna give a lotta praise

  ➔ Future with 'Gonna' (Informal)

  ➔ 'Gonna' is an informal contraction of 'going to', used to express future intentions.