Billion Dollar Babies – English Lyrics

• By: Alice Cooper
• Album: Trashes The World

Lyrics & Translation

Learning English through Alice Cooper's 'Billion Dollar Babies' offers a unique window into the theatrical and satirical language of 1970s rock. The song's clever wordplay and dark humor provide a rich vocabulary for expressing irony and social commentary. What makes this song special is its blend of straightforward rock narrative with a subversively intelligent look at fame and decadence, all wrapped in a classic hard rock package.

[English]

(audience cheering)

(rock music playing)

♪ Billion dollar baby ♪

♪ Rubber little lady, slicker than a weasel ♪

♪ Grimy as an alley ♪

♪ Loves me like no other lover ♪

♪ Billion dollar baby ♪

♪ I got you in the dimestore ♪

♪ No other little girl could ever hold you ♪

♪ Any tighter, any tighter than me, babe ♪

♪ We go dancing nightly in the attic ♪

♪ While the moon is rising in the sky ♪

♪ If I'm too rough, tell me ♪

♪ I'm so scared your little head might come off in my hands ♪

♪ Billion dollar baby ♪

♪ Rubber little lady, slicker than a weasel ♪

♪ Grimy as an alley ♪

♪ Loves me like no other lover ♪

♪ Billion dollar baby ♪

♪ I got you in the dimestore ♪

♪ No other little girl could ever hold you ♪

♪ Any tighter, any tighter than me, babe ♪

♪ We go dancing nightly in the attic ♪

♪ While the moon is rising the sky ♪

♪ If I'm too rough, tell me ♪

♪ I'm so scared your little head might come off in my hands ♪

♪ Billion dollar baby ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Billion dollar baby ♪

♪ Trillion dollar baby ♪

♪ Trillion dollar baby ♪

♪ Baby ♪

♪ Trillion dollar baby ♪

♪ Oh, trillion dollar baby ♪

♪ Trillion dollar baby ♪

(audience cheering)

Key Grammar Structures

• ♪ Loves me like no other lover ♪

  ➔ Comparative Adjective

  ➔ The phrase "no other lover" uses the comparative form to emphasize uniqueness, meaning there is no one else like this lover.

• ♪ I got you in the dimestore ♪

  ➔ Past Simple Tense

  ➔ The verb "got" is in the past simple tense, indicating a completed action in the past, referring to acquiring the person in a dimestore.

• ♪ Any tighter, any tighter than me, babe ♪

  ➔ Superlative Adjective

  ➔ The phrase "any tighter than me" uses the superlative form to express the highest degree of tightness, emphasizing the speaker's unique closeness.

• ♪ While the moon is rising in the sky ♪

  ➔ Present Continuous Tense

  ➔ The phrase "is rising" is in the present continuous tense, describing an action happening now, referring to the moon ascending in the sky.

• ♪ If I'm too rough, tell me ♪

  ➔ Conditional Sentence (Type 1)

  ➔ The sentence uses a Type 1 conditional structure with "if" to express a possible situation and its result, here asking for feedback if the speaker is too rough.