Beautiful – English Lyrics
Lyrics & Translation
[English]
Beauty over wisdom to fit in with their styles
Your Cinderella story's for a price
Vanity's a business built to fleece the unique
Silicone and stars collide, the rest will fall in line
Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along
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Visually, you're stimulating to my eyes
Your Cinderella syndrome's full of lies
Your insecurities are concealed by your pride
Pretty soon, your ego will kill what's left inside
Just as beautiful as you are
It's so pitiful what you are
You should have seen this coming all along (beautiful)
It's so pitiful what you are (pitiful)
As beautiful as you are (should have seen)
You should have seen this coming all along
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You're everything that's so typical
Maybe you're alone for a reason
You're the reason
...
So pitiful is what you are
You should have seen this coming all along (beautiful)
Just as beautiful as you are (pitiful)
It's so pitiful what you are (should have seen)
You should have seen this coming all along (beautiful)
It's so pitiful what you are (pitiful)
As beautiful as you are (should have seen)
You should have seen this coming all along
...
Key Vocabulary
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beauty /ˈbjuːtɪ/ A2 |
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wisdom /ˈwɪzdəm/ B2 |
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style /staɪl/ A2 |
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story /ˈstɔːri/ A1 |
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vanity /ˈvænɪti/ B2 |
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stars /stɑːz/ A1 |
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collide /kəˈlaɪd/ B2 |
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fall /fɔːl/ A2 |
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beautiful /ˈbjuːtɪfʊl/ A2 |
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pitiful /ˈpɪtɪfʊl/ B2 |
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see /siː/ A1 |
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coming /ˈkʌmɪŋ/ A2 |
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believe /bɪˈliːv/ B1 |
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Key Grammar Structures
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Silicone and stars collide, the rest will fall in line
➔ future simple with 'will' + base verb
➔ The phrase uses 'will' to indicate that 'the rest' **will** do something in the future.
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Your Cinderella story's for a price
➔ possessive pronoun 'your' + noun phrase
➔ Shows possession; 'your Cinderella story' refers to a personal or metaphorical story.
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Insecurities are concealed by your pride
➔ passive voice in present simple tense
➔ The sentence uses the passive voice to emphasize that 'insecurities' are being hidden by 'your pride'.
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It's so pitiful what you are
➔ relative clause describing 'what you are'
➔ The phrase 'what you are' functions as a relative clause providing more information about the subject.
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You should have seen this coming all along
➔ modal verb 'should' + perfect infinitive 'have seen'
➔ The phrase uses the modal 'should' with perfect infinitive to express regret or a missed expectation about a past action.
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Just as beautiful as you are
➔ simile using 'as' + adjective + 'as' for comparison
➔ This phrase employs a simile structure to compare the subject's beauty to itself, emphasizing its intensity.
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You should have seen this coming all along
➔ modal 'should' + perfect infinitive
➔ Uses 'should' with the perfect infinitive to indicate regret or a realization that something was obvious in the past.
