evermore – English Lyrics

• By: Taylor Swift, Bon Iver
• Album: evermore

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the poetic world of 'evermore,' a masterpiece of storytelling and atmospheric sound. By studying this song, you can learn sophisticated English vocabulary related to time, memory, and emotional persistence, all while experiencing the seamless blending of folk and pop styles.

[English]

Gray November

I've been down since July

...

Motion capture

Put me in a bad light

...

I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone

Trying to find the one where I went wrong

Writing letters

Addressed to the fire

And I was catching my breath

Staring out an open window

Catching my death

And I couldn't be sure

I had a feeling so peculiar

That this pain would be for

Evermore

...

Hey, December

Guess I'm feeling unmoored

Can't remember

What I used to fight for

...

I rewind the tape, but all it does is pause

On the very moment, all was lost

Sending signals

To be double-crossed

And I was catching my breath

Barefoot in the wildest winter

Catching my death

And I couldn't be sure

I had a feeling so peculiar

That this pain would be for

Evermore

...

(Evermore)

...

Can't not think of all the cost

And the things that will be lost

Oh, can we just get a pause?

To be certain, we'll be tall again

Whether weather be the frost

Or the violence of the dog days

I'm on waves, out being tossed

Is there a line that I could just go cross?

And when I was shipwrecked (can't think of all the cost now)

I thought of you (all the things that will be lost now)

In the cracks of light (can we just get a pause?)

I dreamed of you (to be certain we'll be tall again, if you think of all the costs)

And it was real enough (whether weather be the frost)

To get me through (or the violence of the dog days, or the violence of the dog days)

(Out on waves, being tossed) I'm on waves, out being tossed

Yeah, I swear (is there a line that we can just go cross?)

You were there

...

And I was catching my breath

Floors of a cabin creaking under my step

And I couldn't be sure

I had a feeling so peculiar

This pain wouldn't be for

Evermore

Evermore (evermore)

Evermore

(Evermore) this pain wouldn't be for evermore

Evermore

...

Key Grammar Structures

• I've been down since July

  ➔ Present perfect continuous

  ➔ The phrase "I've been" is the contraction of "I have been", used in the present perfect continuous to show a state that started in the past and continues now.

• I replay my footsteps on each stepping stone

  ➔ Simple present (habitual action)

  ➔ The simple present "replay" describes a repeated or habitual action that the speaker does.

• I couldn't be sure

  ➔ Past modal verb + infinitive (couldn't + be)

  ➔ The negative past modal "couldn't" (could not) is followed by the base verb "be" to express inability or uncertainty in the past.

• And I was catching my breath

  ➔ Past continuous (was + -ing)

  ➔ The structure "was catching" uses the past continuous to describe an action that was in progress at a specific past moment.

• I rewind the tape, but all it does is pause

  ➔ "does + infinitive" after a subject (does is + verb)

  ➔ The phrase "does is" is actually "does + infinitive"; here "does" is the auxiliary verb and "pause" is the base form, meaning "the tape only pauses".

• Can't not think of all the cost

  ➔ Double negative (colloquial) + modal "can't"

  ➔ The speaker uses a double negative "Can't not" for emphasis; grammatically it means "cannot" but adds emotional intensity.

• Whether weather be the frost or the violence of the dog days

  ➔ Correlative conjunction "whether ... or ..."

  ➔ "Whether ... or ..." introduces two alternatives; here it presents two possible conditions (the frost or the dog‑days).

• I thought of you

  ➔ Simple past + prepositional phrase

  ➔ "thought" is in the simple past; the prepositional phrase "of you" indicates the object of the thought.

• I'm on waves, out being tossed

  ➔ Present continuous passive participle phrase (being + past participle)

  ➔ "being tossed" uses the passive participle "being" + past participle "tossed" to describe an ongoing action done to the subject.