Can You Feel My Heart – English Lyrics

• By: Bring Me The Horizon
• Album: Sempiternal

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the depths of emotion with Bring Me The Horizon's 'Can You Feel My Heart,' a powerful metalcore anthem that teaches you how to express vulnerability and seek understanding. Discover the raw lyrics, electronic soundscapes, and the journey of self-admittance that makes this song a modern classic.

[English]

(hard rock music)

♪ Can you hear the silence ♪

♪ Can you see the dark ♪

♪ Can you fix the broken ♪

♪ Can you feel, can you feel my heart ♪

♪ Can you help the hopeless ♪

♪ Well, I'm begging on my knees ♪

♪ Can you save my bastard soul ♪

♪ Will you wait for me ♪

♪ I'm sorry, brothers, so sorry, lover ♪

♪ Forgive me, father, I love you, mother ♪

♪ Can you hear the silence ♪

♪ Can you see the dark ♪

♪ Can you fix the broken ♪

♪ Can you feel my heart ♪

♪ Can you feel my heart ♪

(hard rock music continues)

(slow rock music)

♪ I'm scared to get close, and I hate being alone ♪

♪ I long for that feeling to not feel at all ♪

♪ The higher I get, the lower I'll sink ♪

♪ I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim ♪

♪ I'm scared to get close, and I hate being alone ♪

♪ I long for that feeling to not feel at all ♪

♪ The higher I get, the lower I'll sink ♪

♪ I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim ♪

♪ I'm scared to get close, and I hate being alone ♪

♪ I long for that feeling to not feel at all ♪

♪ The higher I get, the lower I'll sink ♪

♪ I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim ♪

(hard rock music)

♪ Can you feel my heart ♪

♪ Can you hear the silence ♪

♪ Can you see the dark ♪

♪ Can you fix the broken ♪

♪ Can you feel, can you feel my heart ♪

(hard rock music continues)

Key Grammar Structures

• Can you hear the silence

  ➔ Modal verb ‘can’ + base verb in a question to ask about ability or possibility.

  ➔ The word \"Can\" is the modal verb used to ask about ability.

• Will you wait for me

  ➔ Future simple with ‘will’ to express willingness or a future action.

  ➔ The word \"Will\" marks a future‑time question about willingness.

• I'm begging on my knees

  ➔ Present continuous (am/is/are + –ing) to describe an action happening now.

  ➔ The contraction \"I'm\" (I am) shows the present continuous tense.

• I'm scared to get close

  ➔ Adjective + infinitive (scared + to + verb) to express fear or reluctance.

  ➔ The adjective \"scared\" is followed by the infinitive \"to get\".

• I can't drown my demons

  ➔ Negative modal ‘can’t’ + base verb to express inability or prohibition.

  ➔ The contraction \"can't\" shows negation of ability.

• The higher I get, the lower I'll sink

  ➔ Correlative comparative structure ‘the … the …’ to express a proportional relationship.

  ➔ The word \"higher\" (and \"lower\") are part of the correlative pattern.

• I love you, mother

  ➔ Vocative case – direct address to a person, set off by a comma.

  ➔ The word \"mother\" is in vocative position, showing direct address.

• they know how to swim

  ➔ Infinitive clause ‘how to + verb’ expressing manner or ability.

  ➔ The word \"how\" introduces the infinitive clause.