Bleeding Love

• By: Leona Lewis
• Album: Christmas, With Love

Lyrics:

Vocabulary in this song:

Vocabulary	Meanings
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - an intense feeling of affection verb - to feel deep affection for someone
pain /peɪn/ A2	noun - physical suffering or discomfort
time /taɪm/ A1	noun - the indefinite continued progress of existence
heart /hɑːrt/ A1	noun - a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood
true /truː/ A2	adjective - in accordance with fact or reality
crazy /ˈkreɪzi/ B1	adjective - mentally deranged; eccentric
truth /truːθ/ B1	noun - the quality or state of being true
vein /veɪn/ B2	noun - any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body
open /ˈoʊpən/ A2	adjective - not closed or fastened verb - to allow access to
bleeding /ˈbliːdɪŋ/ B2	verb - to lose blood
loud /laʊd/ A2	adjective - producing much noise
sounds /saʊndz/ A1	noun - vibrations that travel through the air
doubt /daʊt/ B1	noun - a feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction
falling /ˈfɔːlɪŋ/ A1	verb - to come down freely from an upright position
rush /rʌʃ/ B1	noun - a sudden desire to do something
embrace /ɪmˈbreɪs/ B2	noun - an act of holding someone closely in one's arms verb - to hold someone closely in one's arms
draining /ˈdreɪnɪŋ/ B2	verb - cause the water or other liquid to run out from (something)
scars /skɑːrz/ B2	noun - a mark left on the skin or within body tissue where a wound, burn, or sore has not completely healed and fibrous connective tissue has developed.

Grammar:

• Closed off from love, I didn't need the pain

  ➔ Past Simple Tense, Past Participle as adjective

  ➔ "Closed off" is a past participle used as an adjective describing the state of being emotionally unavailable. "Didn't need" uses the past simple to express a past lack of necessity.

• Time starts to pass before you know it you're frozen

  ➔ Simple Present Tense, Present Continuous (implicit), Subject-Verb Inversion (implicit), Adjective (frozen)

  ➔ "Time starts to pass" is simple present describing a general truth. The phrase "before you know it" implies something happening continuously. "You're frozen" uses the adjective "frozen" to describe the state.

• My heart melts into the ground, found something true

  ➔ Simple Present Tense, Past Simple (shortened relative clause)

  ➔ "My heart melts" is simple present describing a general truth. "Found something true" is a shortened relative clause where the subject and auxiliary verb are omitted (e.g., "[having] found something true").

• They try to pull me away but they don't know the truth

  ➔ Simple Present Tense, Conjunction 'but'

  ➔ "They try" and "they don't know" use the simple present tense to describe habitual actions and a state of knowledge, respectively. The conjunction "but" contrasts the two clauses.

• My heart's crippled by the vein that I keep on closing

  ➔ Present Simple Passive, Relative Clause with 'that', Phrasal Verb 'keep on'

  ➔ "My heart's crippled" is a passive construction in the simple present, indicating a state of being affected. "That I keep on closing" is a relative clause modifying "the vein." The phrasal verb "keep on" means to continue doing something.

• You cut me open and I keep bleeding keep keep bleeding love

  ➔ Simple Past, Present Simple, Repetition for emphasis

  ➔ "You cut me open" is in simple past, describing a completed action in the past. "I keep bleeding" is in present simple, describing an ongoing state. The repetition of "keep" and "bleeding" emphasizes the continuous and persistent nature of the bleeding love.