Lyrics & Translation
[English]
She walks to school with the lunch she packed
Nobody knows what she's holding back
Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday
She hides the bruises with the linen and lace ohhh
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The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask
It's hard to see the pain behind the mask
Bearin' the burden of the secret storm
Sometimes she wishes she was never born
Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel
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Somebody cries in the middle of the night
The neighbors hear but they turn out the light
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it'll be too late
Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel
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A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot
Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel
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Key Vocabulary
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walk /wɔːk/ A1 |
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school /skuːl/ A1 |
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dream /driːm/ A2 |
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pain /peɪn/ B1 |
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fragile /ˈfrædʒaɪl/ B2 |
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burden /ˈbɜːrdən/ B2 |
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angel /ˈeɪndʒəl/ B2 |
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stone /stoʊn/ B1 |
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world /wɜːrld/ A1 |
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place /pleɪs/ A1 |
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night /naɪt/ A1 |
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heart /hɑːrt/ A2 |
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forgot /fərˈɡɒt/ B1 |
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wings /wɪŋz/ B2 |
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Key Grammar Structures
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Nobody knows what she's holding back
➔ Embedded question with 'what'
➔ The clause "what she's holding back" functions as the object of the verb "knows". It's an embedded question, meaning it's a question contained within a statement.
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Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday
➔ Participle clause of reason/description
➔ "Wearing the same dress..." describes the girl and gives context to her situation. It implies that she is wearing the same dress *because* of her circumstances.
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It's hard to see the pain behind the mask
➔ Impersonal 'it' + adjective + to-infinitive
➔ The "it" is a dummy subject, and the real subject is the to-infinitive phrase "to see the pain behind the mask". This structure emphasizes the difficulty of the action.
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Sometimes she wishes she was never born
➔ Subjunctive mood in 'wish' clauses for unreal past situations
➔ The phrase "she was never born" is in the subjunctive mood (using "was" instead of "were" which is more strictly correct, but common in spoken English) to express a wish about something that cannot be changed in the past. It indicates a regret about the past.
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Through the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone
➔ Simile using 'as...as'
➔ The phrase "hard as a stone" uses a simile to compare the girl's resilience to the hardness of a stone. It highlights her ability to endure difficult circumstances.
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In a world that she can't rise above
➔ Relative clause with omitted relative pronoun
➔ The relative pronoun "that" or "which" (acting as the object of "rise above") is omitted. The full clause would be "In a world that she can't rise above."
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When morning comes it'll be too late
➔ First conditional with future simple in the main clause
➔ This is a first conditional sentence, expressing a possible future situation and its likely consequence. "When morning comes" is the if-clause (though the 'if' is implied), and "it'll be too late" is the main clause, describing what will happen if the condition is met.
