Dynasty – English Lyrics

• By: MIIA

Lyrics & Translation

Learning a language through music is a powerful tool, and MIIA's “Dynasty” offers a poignant and emotionally resonant experience. The song's clear, emotive English vocals and its compelling story of love and loss provide an excellent opportunity to connect with vocabulary related to emotions and relationships. What makes “Dynasty” special is its universal theme of heartbreak, expressed through the powerful and accessible metaphor of a fallen kingdom, making the lyrics both memorable and meaningful for language learners.

[English]

Some days

It's hard to see

If I was a fool

Or you a thief

Made it through the maze

To found my one in a million

And now you're just a page torn from the story I'm living

And all I gave you is gone

...

Tumbled like it was stone

Thought we built a dynasty that Heaven couldn't shake

Thought we built a dynasty like nothing ever made

Thought we built a dynasty forever couldn't break up

...

The scar, I can't reverse

And the more it heals, the worse it hurts

Gave you every piece of me

No wonder it's missing

Don't know how to be so close to someone so distant

And all I gave you is gone

...

Tumbled like it was stone

...

Thought we built a dynasty that Heaven couldn't shake

Thought we built a dynasty like nothing ever made

Thought we built a dynasty forever couldn't break up

...

It all fell down, it all fell down

It all fell, it all fell down, it all fell down

It all fell, it all fell down, it all fell down, eh

It all fell down, it all fell down, it all fell down

And all I gave you is gone

...

Tumbled like it was stone

...

Thought we built a dynasty that Heaven couldn't shake

Thought we built a dynasty like nothing ever made

Thought we built a dynasty forever couldn't break up

It all fell, it all fell down, it all fell down, eh

It all fell down, it all fell down, it all fell down

(And all I gave you is gone) it all fell down, it all fell down, it all fell down

Thought we built a dynasty forever couldn't break up

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
fool /fuːl/ B1	noun - a person who acts unwisely or imprudently
thief /θiːf/ B1	noun - a person who steals
maze /meɪz/ B2	noun - a network of paths and hedges designed as a puzzle
million /ˈmɪljən/ A2	noun - a large number, one thousand thousand
page /peɪdʒ/ A2	noun - a sheet of paper in a book or magazine
stone /stoʊn/ A2	noun - a hard solid nonmetallic material
dynasty /ˈdɪnəsti/ C1	noun - a sequence of rulers from the same family
shake /ʃeɪk/ A2	verb - move with or cause to move with quick, short movements
scar /skɑːr/ B1	noun - a mark left on the skin after a wound heals
reverse /rɪˈvɜːrs/ B2	verb - turn the opposite way around
heal /hiːl/ B1	verb - become sound or healthy again
piece /piːs/ A2	noun - a part of something
distant /ˈdɪstənt/ B2	adjective - far away in space or time
fell /fel/ A2	verb - move downwards quickly and without control
hurt /hɜːrt/ A2	verb - cause pain to

Key Grammar Structures

• It's hard to see

  ➔ hard + to‑infinitive (infinitive after adjective)

  ➔ The adjective "hard" is followed by the infinitive "to see" to express difficulty.

• If I was a fool

  ➔ Second conditional (unreal past) with past simple verb

  ➔ "If I **was** a fool" expresses an unreal condition; formally it could be "were".

• And now you're just a page torn from the story I'm living

  ➔ Past participle used as passive adjective

  ➔ "torn" is a past participle that describes the page as having been ripped.

• And all I gave you is gone

  ➔ Verb + be + past participle to express a resulting state

  ➔ "is **gone**" uses the verb "is" plus the past participle "gone" to show the state after something disappears.

• Tumbled like it was stone

  ➔ Simile using 'like' + past simple verb

  ➔ "like" introduces a comparison and the verb "was" is in the past simple to describe the imagined similarity.

• Thought we built a dynasty that Heaven couldn't shake

  ➔ Reported speech in past simple with modal 'couldn't'

  ➔ "couldn't" is the past negative modal of "can", showing inability in the reported clause.

• The scar, I can't reverse

  ➔ Modal verb 'can' in negative form ('can't')

  ➔ "can't" is the contracted negative of "can", showing inability to reverse the scar.

• And the more it heals, the worse it hurts

  ➔ Correlative comparative structure 'the more ... the worse'

  ➔ "the **more** it heals, the **worse** it hurts" shows a proportional increase using the correlative pattern.

• Don't know how to be so close to someone so distant

  ➔ Negative verb 'don't' + infinitive 'to be'

  ➔ "Don't **know** how **to be**" uses the negative verb "don't" followed by the infinitive "to be" to express lack of knowledge.