Beautiful Nightmare – English Lyrics

• By: Alan Walker, bludnymph

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the evocative world of "Beautiful Nightmare" by Alan Walker and bludnymph. This song offers a captivating journey through the English language, where you can explore rich vocabulary describing intense emotions, contradictory feelings, and metaphorical expressions of love and obsession. The powerful lyrics and atmospheric electronic sounds make it an excellent piece to understand how English can convey complex psychological states, encouraging listeners to appreciate its poetic depth through a modern, engaging musical experience.

[English]

(Be my beautiful nightmare)

Black magic in your fingertips

Sweet surrender on my lips

Burnin' on my skin, addiction that I just can't quit

Close to heaven, but we slipped

I'm floating through hell and back (hell and back)

For a love that could burn like that (burn like that)

That's how we fade to black (fade to black)

Don't wake me up

Oh, please don't go

Leave me dancing with your ghost

Stay and haunt my dreams, can you take me there?

Be my beautiful nightmare

Oh, please don't go

Pull me under, pull me close

Stay and haunt my dreams, can you take me there?

Be my beautiful nightmare

...

Feel you breathing down my neck

Always see your silhouette (yeah, yeah)

Got me scratching at the walls (scratching at the walls)

Come and love me half to death

Drive my body off the edge

Like the way you make me crawl

I'm floating through hell and back (hell and back)

For a love that could burn like that (that could burn like that)

That's how we fade to black (fade to black)

Don't wake me up

Oh, please don't go

Leave me dancing with your ghost

Stay and haunt my dreams, can you take me there?

Be my beautiful nightmare

Oh, please don't go

Pull me under, pull me close

Stay and haunt my dreams, can you take me there?

Be my beautiful nightmare

...

(Beautiful nightmare)

Oh, so beautiful

Don't let me go

Be my beautiful nightmare

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
nightmare /ˈnaɪtˌmɛər/ A2	noun - a frightening or unpleasant dream
magic /ˈmædʒɪk/ A1	noun - special power or skill
surrender /səˈrɛndər/ B1	verb - to give up or yield
burn /bɜːrn/ A1	verb - to be on fire or cause to be on fire
addiction /əˈdɪkʃən/ B1	noun - a strong and harmful need to regularly have something
float /floʊt/ A2	verb - to stay on the surface of a liquid
haunt /hɔːnt/ B2	verb - to frequently visit in spirit or memory
silhouette /ˌsɪlʊˈɛt/ B2	noun - the dark shape of someone or something visible against a brighter background
scratch /skrætʃ/ A2	verb - to rub a surface with something sharp or rough
edge /ɛdʒ/ A1	noun - the outer limit of something
crawl /krɔːl/ A1	verb - to move on the ground on hands and knees
fade /feɪd/ A2	verb - to gradually become weaker or less distinct
ghost /ɡoʊst/ A1	noun - the soul of a dead person believed to appear to the living
pull /pʊl/ A1	verb - to move something toward oneself
slip /slɪp/ A2	verb - to slide out of position or fall

Key Grammar Structures

• (Be my beautiful nightmare)

  ➔ Imperative mood using the base form

  ➔ The imperative mood uses the base form "Be" to give a command or request; the subject is implied (you).

• Don't wake me up

  ➔ Negative imperative with Don't + base verb

  ➔ The structure is an external negative command; the subject remains implied (you).

• Leave me dancing with your ghost

  ➔ Imperative with object; present participle as complement

  ➔ The verb Leave is imperative; 'me' is the object; 'dancing' is a present participle describing the action.

• Stay and haunt my dreams, can you take me there?

  ➔ Imperative (Stay) + coordinated verb; follow-up question with can + subject inversion

  ➔ Stay is an imperatives; 'can you take me there?' uses a modal plus subject-verb inversion to form a question.

• Be my beautiful nightmare

  ➔ Imperative repetition; object construction

  ➔ Again an imperative; 'Be' is the base verb used to request someone become the thing described.

• Feel you breathing down my neck

  ➔ Causative/perceptual verb + object + present participle

  ➔ The verb feel is a perceptual verb; 'you' is the object and 'breathing' is a present participle describing the action.

• I'm floating through hell and back

  ➔ Present continuous with a prepositional phrase of extent

  ➔ I'm is I am; 'floating' is the present participle; 'through hell and back' expresses extent or journey.

• For a love that could burn like that

  ➔ Relative clause with could

  ➔ That introduces a relative clause; 'could' expresses possibility or imagination about burning.

• That's how we fade to black

  ➔ That + is + how + clause; 'fade to' phrasal verb

  ➔ That is + verb construction explaining the manner; 'fade to black' is a common metaphor for ending.

• (Beautiful nightmare)

  ➔ Parenthetical noun phrase as motif

  ➔ A noun phrase used as a motif or refrain; no verb needed.