Better Without You – English Lyrics

• By: Evanescence
• Album: The Bitter Truth

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

(light music)

(electronic music)

♪ Stand in the front ♪

♪ But shut up 'til I tell you to go ♪

♪ Don't get caught up in pretend ♪

♪ 'Cause you're not in control ♪

♪ 'Cause this is my world, little girl ♪

♪ You'd be lost on your own ♪

♪ Just hating and waiting, and saving up ♪

(rock music)

♪ I'll do you a favor and save you ♪

♪ If you sign on the line ♪

♪ Don't worry your pretty little head about the future ♪

♪ It's all fine ♪

♪ Whether you're wrong or you're right ♪

♪ Doesn't matter, you're not up to the fight ♪

♪ Keeping my head down ♪

♪ 'Cause they don't know what I know now ♪

♪ As empires fall to pieces ♪

♪ Our ashes twisting in the air ♪

♪ It makes me smile to know that ♪

♪ I'm ♪

♪ Better without you ♪

(rock music)

♪ Now look around and remember your friends if you can ♪

♪ Feeding the flames 'til there's no one to blame ♪

♪ It's on your hands ♪

♪ Lost in your lies ♪

♪ Pay the price with our lives, you've gone mad ♪

♪ And there's no way out ♪

♪ 'Cause we all know you're hollow ♪

♪ As empires fall to pieces ♪

♪ Our ashes twisting in the air ♪

♪ It makes me smile to know that ♪

♪ I'm ♪

♪ Better without you ♪

(rock music)

♪ Not enough, not enough ♪

♪ Not enough to throw it all away ♪

♪ We'd still be falling ♪

♪ We're fallen ♪

♪ Turn it up, turn it up ♪

♪ Never gonna shut me up again ♪

♪ Your time is over ♪

♪ It's over now ♪

♪ As empires fall to pieces ♪

♪ Our ashes twisting in the air ♪

♪ It makes me smile to know that ♪

♪ I'm ♪

♪ I'm ♪

♪ Better without you ♪

(rock music)

Key Grammar Structures

• Stand in the front ♪ But shut up 'til I tell you to go ♪

  ➔ Imperative mood

  ➔ The phrases 'Stand' and 'shut up' are in the imperative mood, used to give direct commands or instructions.

• 'Cause you're not in control ♪

  ➔ Contraction

  ➔ The word 'Cause' is a contraction of 'because', commonly used in informal or spoken language.

• I'll do you a favor and save you ♪

  ➔ Future tense with 'will'

  ➔ The phrase 'I'll do' is a contraction of 'I will do', indicating a future action.

• Don't worry your pretty little head about the future ♪

  ➔ Negative imperative

  ➔ 'Don't worry' is a negative imperative, used to advise against an action.

• Whether you're wrong or you're right ♪

  ➔ Subordinating conjunction

  ➔ 'Whether' is a subordinating conjunction used to introduce a conditional clause.

• As empires fall to pieces ♪

  ➔ Present simple in a descriptive context

  ➔ The phrase 'fall to pieces' is in the present simple, used here to describe a general or ongoing situation.

• It makes me smile to know that ♪

  ➔ Subject + verb + object + infinitive

  ➔ The structure 'It makes me smile to know' follows the pattern subject + verb + object + infinitive, where 'to know' is the infinitive.

• Turn it up, turn it up ♪

  ➔ Repetition for emphasis

  ➔ The phrase 'Turn it up, turn it up' uses repetition to emphasize the action.