Diana – English Lyrics

• By: Fireboy DML, Chris Brown, Shenseea
• Album: Playboy

Lyrics & Translation

Discover the language of love and longing through Fireboy DML's captivating track "Diana." Featuring Chris Brown and Shenseea, this song offers a blend of English, Pidgin, and Ghanaian references, providing a unique linguistic experience while exploring the universal theme of pleading for love and commitment.

[English]

Mm-yeah ah, mm-yeah ah

Mm-yeah ah

Don't you leave, Diana

Mm-yeah ah (Phantom), mm-yeah ah

(Mm-yeah ah)

Mm-yeah, ah

...

Oh, maami, don't leave me go Dubai

You're the one I want

Can't do this on my own, oh-no, yeah

Buy you anythin' you like

Roses and diamonds

You're the one I want, oh na-na, yeah

Girl, I need you to decide

If that make them jealousy you

Na you I wan call upon, eh, eh, eh, eh

And I need you to be mine

If that make them jealousy you

Na you I go call up for you, ah-ah, ah

Diana, Diana

Please, don't leave, Diana

Diana, she let me go so far up in her

I beg her, "Please, don't leave Diana"

Diana

Oh, they are, mm-yeah ah

Mm-yeah ah, mm-yeah ah

Don't you leave, Diana

Mm-yeah ah, mm-yeah ah

Mm-yeah ah

Na you dey burst my brain, you chop my cane

Cross any nigga, wey cross my lane

So many girls wey dey on my case

So many girls, but they not my taste

Call my name, call my name

Your pain is my pain

I'm falling again and again, hmm, yeah

Ghana girl, so pretty (uhn)

Shey you wanna dance with me? (uhn)

Bẹ'rẹ' mọ'lẹ' kó mú'jó (uhn-uhn)

Bẹ'rẹ' mọ'lẹ' kó mú'jó (uhn-uhn)

Ah, Ghana girl, so pretty (uhn)

Shey you wanna dance with me? (uhn)

Bẹ'rẹ' mọ'lẹ' kó mú'jó (uhn-uhn)

Ṣeré mọ'lẹ' kó mú'jó (uhn-uhn)

Diana, Diana

Please, don't leave, Diana

Diana, she let me go so far up in her

Abena, "Please, don't leave Diana"

Diana (mm-yeah)

How fi yuh get a gyal like a me? (Shenseea)

This here pum-pum high quality (hmm-mm)

UFO, mi no ordinary

And that's why you want me, up me

From sun up, we haffi go when the sun up

We only on the same time when we fuck up

Those stars too much bright, so we buck up (hmm)

Mi haffi get my way from you

I need you to know, I'm the one that you can lose

Hold it down with your ten toes

If you don't want me to go

I need you to know, mi come first like a intro (mi confessed)

'Cause I don't mind being single, but I know you gon'

Diana, Diana

Please, don't leave, Diana

Diana, she let me go so far up in her

I beg her, "Please, don't leave Diana"

Diana

Diana, Diana

Please, don't leave, Diana (please)

Diana, she let me go so far up in her

Abena, please, don't leave Diana (please)

Diana (oh, yeah)

(Oh Dia')

Mm-yeah ah, mm-yeah ah

Mm-yeah ah

Don't you leave, Diana

Mm-yeah ah, mm-yeah ah

Mm-yeah ah

(Mm-yeah, ah)

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
leave /liːv/ A1	verb - to go away from
want /wɒnt/ A1	verb - to desire
need /niːd/ A1	verb - to require
pain /peɪn/ A2	noun - physical suffering or discomfort
call /kɔːl/ A2	verb - to shout or cry out
girl /ɡɜːrl/ A2	noun - a young female
dance /dɑːns/ A2	verb - to move rhythmically to music
pretty /ˈprɪti/ B1	adjective - attractive in a delicate way
cross /krɒs/ B1	verb - to go across
taste /teɪst/ B1	noun - the sensation of flavor
falling /ˈfɔːlɪŋ/ B1	verb - to move downwards
bright /braɪt/ B2	adjective - giving off a lot of light
quality /ˈkwɒlɪti/ B2	noun - the standard of something
ordinary /ˈɔːrdɪnəri/ B2	adjective - not special or unusual
lose /luːz/ B2	verb - to be deprived of
confess /kənˈfes/ C1	verb - to admit something

Key Grammar Structures

• You're the one I want

  ➔ Relative clause with 'the one' acting as a pronoun; 'the one I want' is a noun phrase followed by a restrictive relative clause, with the relative pronoun (that) omitted.

  ➔ The phrase 'the one' acts as the noun being identified, with the relative clause 'I want' specifying which one; highlight the word "the one".

• Don't you leave, Diana

  ➔ Negative imperative with 'Don't' plus vocative; emphasis can be created with 'you' following the negation.

  ➔ The line uses a negative imperative with a vocative 'Diana'; the word to highlight is **"Don't"** as the negation marker.

• Abena, please, don't leave Diana

  ➔ Imperative with politeness marker 'please' plus vocative; combines instruction with courtesy.

  ➔ The line features a vocative 'Abena' and a polite imperative via 'please'; highlight **"please"**.

• Diana, she let me go so far up in her

  ➔ After a vocative, a redundant subject 'she' appears; common in informal/dialect speech.

  ➔ This is a dialectal/colloquial device where a subject pronoun appears after a vocative; highlight **"she"**.

• I beg her, 'Please, don't leave Diana'

  ➔ Main clause 'I beg her' followed by direct speech; embedded imperative inside quotation marks.

  ➔ The line combines a reporting verb 'I beg hers' with a quoted imperative; highlight **"don't leave"**.

• I need you to know, I'm the one that you can lose

  ➔ Complex sentence with 'I need you to know' as a reporting clause plus a relative clause 'that you can lose' modifying 'the one'; 'can' is a modal verb.

  ➔ The relative clause 'that you can lose' modifies the noun phrase 'the one'; highlight **"that you can lose"**.

• Call my name, call my name

  ➔ Imperative with bare infinitive; subject pronoun usually omitted in imperatives.

  ➔ A classic imperative structure using the base form 'call' without an explicit subject; highlight **"call"**.

• Hold it down with your ten toes

  ➔ Phrasal verb 'hold down' meaning to restrain or keep down; 'with your ten toes' is an instrumental/prepositional phrase.

  ➔ The line uses a phrasal verb 'hold down'; highlight **"hold down"**.

• From sun up, we haffi go when the sun up

  ➔ Time expression 'From sun up' and habitual/obligatory marker 'haffi' (Pidgin for 'have to'); English-like structure with nonstandard elements.

  ➔ The line combines a time phrase with a forced-obligation marker 'haffi'; highlight **"haffi"**.