Down The Drain – English Lyrics

• By: Lilly Wood and The Prick
• Album: Invincible Friends

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the raw emotion of "Down The Drain" by Lilly Wood and The Prick, a powerful English-language track that offers a unique window into expressing profound feelings. Its direct and evocative lyrics make it an excellent song for English learners to grasp vocabulary related to emotions and difficult interpersonal dynamics, while its folk-pop style makes it both accessible and deeply moving.

[English]

Break me up

Tie me down

Tear me down

Make me feel like a little doll

Why don't you rape me now

And hit me now

Make me feel like I'm nothing at all

I wait for you

Wait for you to kill everything

I have inside

Destroyed everything I have inside

Destroyed everything I have inside

You and me we're a waste

We're a waste, we're a waste

And we're going down the drain

Down the drain, down the drain

We're a waste

We're just a waste, we're just a waist

And we are going down the drain

Break me up

Tie me down

Tear me down

Make me feel like a little doll

Why don't you rape me now

And hit me now

Make me feel like I'm nothing at all

I wait for you

Wait for you to kill everything

I have inside

Destroyed everything I have inside

Destroyed everything I have inside

You and me we're a waste

We're a waste, we're a waste

And we're going down the drain

Down the drain, down the drain

We're a waste

We're just a waste, we're just a waist

And we are going down the drain

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
break /breɪk/ A1	verb - to separate into pieces suddenly or forcibly
tie /taɪ/ A1	verb - to fasten or attach with a rope, string, or similar
tear /tɛər/ A1	verb - to pull apart or split something
destroy /dɪˈstrɔɪ/ A2	verb - to damage so badly that no use can be made of it
wait /weɪt/ A1	verb - to spend time until an expected event happens
kill /kɪl/ A1	verb - to cause the death of a person or animal
waste /weɪst/ B1	noun - an unnecessary or unusable excess of something adjective - not used or not able to be used
drain /dreɪn/ B1	noun - a pipe or channel for carrying off water or liquid verb - to cause or allow liquid to run out of something
doll /dɒl/ A1	noun - a model of a human being, typically a child's toy
nothing /ˈnʌθɪŋ/ A1	pronoun - not anything; no single thing
inside /ɪnˈsaɪd/ A1	adjective - situated on the inner side noun - the inner part or contents of something
rape /reɪp/ B2	verb - to force someone to have sexual intercourse
hit /hɪt/ A1	verb - to strike or collide with
feel /fiːl/ A1	verb - to perceive or experience an emotion or sensation
little /ˈlɪtəl/ A1	adjective - small in size, amount, or degree

Key Grammar Structures

• Break me up

  ➔ Imperative Mood

  ➔ The verb 'break' is in the imperative mood, which is used to give commands or make requests. Here, it directly addresses the listener.

• Make me feel like a little doll

  ➔ Causative Verb Construction

  ➔ The verb 'make' is used in a causative construction to indicate that the subject causes the object to feel a certain way. Here, 'make me feel' shows that the action of the subject results in the speaker feeling like a little doll.

• Why don't you rape me now

  ➔ Tag Question with 'do'

  ➔ The phrase 'Why don't you' is a tag question using 'do' to seek confirmation or to make a suggestion in a more indirect way. Here, it is used rhetorically to express frustration or anger.

• I wait for you to kill everything

  ➔ Infinitive of Purpose

  ➔ The infinitive 'to kill' is used to express the purpose of the action 'wait for you'. It indicates that the speaker is waiting specifically for the action of killing everything.

• You and me we're a waste

  ➔ Subject-Verb Agreement with Compound Subject

  ➔ The verb 'are' agrees with the compound subject 'You and me', which is treated as plural. This is a common construction in informal English.

• And we're going down the drain

  ➔ Present Continuous Tense

  ➔ The phrase 'we're going' uses the present continuous tense to describe an action that is happening now or in the near future. Here, it conveys the ongoing process of 'going down the drain'.