Beautiful Nightmare – English Lyrics

• By: Alan Walker, Bludnymph
• Album: Neon Nights

Lyrics & Translation

Discover the beautifully chaotic world of a toxic love story through Alan Walker and Bludnymph's "Beautiful Nightmare." This track offers a great opportunity to learn English by exploring powerful metaphors and contrasting emotions in its lyrics, all set to an energetic and unique blend of dance-pop and drum & bass.

[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
beautiful /ˈbjuːtɪfəl/ A2	adjective - pleasing to the senses; attractive.
nightmare /ˈnaɪtˌmɛər/ B2	noun - a frightening or unpleasant dream
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - a deep and tender affection for someone
burn /bɜːrn/ A1	verb - to be on fire or to ignite; to damage or destroy by fire
black /blæk/ A1	adjective - the color of night
hell /hɛl/ B1	noun - a place of eternal fire or suffering after death
dream /driːm/ A2	noun - a series of thoughts, images, or feelings while asleep
haunt /hɔːnt/ B2	verb - to visit or appear frequently in a place or in someone's mind; to disturb or torment
stay /steɪ/ A1	verb - to remain in a place
pull /pʊl/ A2	verb - to exert force to draw toward oneself
wake /weɪk/ A2	verb - to stop sleeping; to emerge from sleep
dancing /ˈdænsɪŋ/ B1	verb - moving to music rhythmically
ghost /ɡoʊst/ B1	noun - a supernatural being; spirit of a dead person
fingertips /ˈfɪŋɡərˌtɪps/ C1	noun - the tips of the fingers
magic /ˈmædʒɪk/ A2	noun - the art of influencing events using supernatural forces
addiction /əˈdɪkʃən/ B2	noun - the condition of being addicted; dependence
silhouette /ˌsɪl.uːˈɛt/ B2	noun - the outline or shape of something
edge /ɛdʒ/ A2	noun - the outside limit of an object; boundary or brink
body /ˈbɒdi/ A2	noun - the physical structure of a person
death /dɛθ/ B1	noun - the end of life; cessation of all vital processes

Key Grammar Structures

• I'm floating through hell and back

  ➔ Present continuous (progressive) tense

  ➔ The verb "am" + "floating" (the -ing form) indicates an action happening right now.

• Don't wake me up

  ➔ Negative imperative

  ➔ The word "Don't" is placed before the base verb "wake" to form a negative command.

• Pull me under, pull me close

  ➔ Imperative (command) with direct object

  ➔ The verb "Pull" is used in its base form to give a direct command, followed by the object "me".

• For a love that could burn like that

  ➔ Modal verb "could" in a relative clause

  ➔ The modal verb "could" expresses possibility about the love that "could burn".

• Feel you breathing down my neck

  ➔ Verb + object + gerund (object complement)

  ➔ The gerund "breathing" follows the object "you" as an object complement after the verb "Feel".

• Got me scratching at the walls

  ➔ Causative "got" + object + -ing

  ➔ The verb "got" followed by the object "me" and the -ing form "scratching" creates a causative meaning, indicating that something causes me to scratch.

• Leave me dancing with your ghost

  ➔ Causative "leave" + object + -ing

  ➔ The verb "Leave" is used in a causative sense, followed by the object "me" and the -ing form "dancing".

• Be my beautiful nightmare

  ➔ Imperative with linking verb "be"

  ➔ The verb "Be" at the beginning forms an imperative, asking someone to become "my beautiful nightmare".

• We fade to black

  ➔ Simple present (habitual/general statement)

  ➔ The verb "fade" in the simple present indicates a regular or general action: "we fade to black".