FIREBABE – English Lyrics

• By: Stormzy, Debbie
• Album: THIS IS WHAT I MEAN

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Stealin' all their hearts, yeah

Stealin' all their hearts, yeah

Stealin' all their hearts, yeah

Stealin' all their hearts, yeah

...

She was standin' in her dress

And she was lookin' like an angel

Her eyes took away my breath

And that's when I knew she was mine until the end

My miracle

My happy place

My heart and soul

Forever yours

'Cause I, I just can't explain

Even in the way you love me with your flame

My fire babe

You keep burnin' bright

Touch me with your name, and I'll be with your flame

My fire babe

She makes everybody laugh (everybody, oh)

Then she starts dancin' on the table

...

She can't stop stealin' all their hearts

How she lights up a room is somethin' to behold

...

My miracle

My happy place

My heart and soul

Forever yours

'Cause I, I just can't explain (I just can't explain)

Even in the way you love me with your flame (you love me with your flame)

My fire babe

You keep burnin' bright

Touch me with your name (touch me with your name)

And I'll be with your flame (your flame, your flame)

My fire babe

...

Key Grammar Structures

• She was standin' in her dress

  ➔ Past continuous (was + -ing)

  ➔ The verb "was" indicates the past continuous tense, showing an ongoing action in the past.

• She can't stop stealin' all their hearts

  ➔ Modal verb + bare infinitive (can't + stop) + gerund (stealin')

  ➔ The modal verb "can't" expresses inability and is followed by the base verb "stop"; "stealin'" is a gerund.

• You keep burnin' bright

  ➔ Verb "keep" + gerund to express continuous action

  ➔ The verb "keep" followed by the gerund "burnin'" shows that the action continues over time.

• Touch me with your name, and I'll be with your flame

  ➔ Imperative sentence + future simple with "will"

  ➔ The word "Touch" is an imperative giving a command, while "I'll" (I will) forms the future simple.

• She makes everybody laugh (everybody, oh)

  ➔ Simple present tense, third‑person singular subject‑verb agreement

  ➔ The verb "makes" is in the simple present and agrees with the third‑person singular subject "She".

• How she lights up a room is somethin' to behold

  ➔ Nominal clause introduced by "how" functioning as subject

  ➔ "How" introduces a noun clause that serves as the subject of the sentence.

• She was lookin' like an angel

  ➔ Past continuous tense with verb phrase "look like"

  ➔ The verb "was" plus "lookin'" (look) forms the past continuous, describing a state that lasted in the past.

• Even in the way you love me with your flame

  ➔ Prepositional phrase "in the way" followed by a relative clause

  ➔ "the way" forms a prepositional phrase that introduces the relative clause "you love me...".

• My fire babe

  ➔ Vocative noun phrase used to address someone

  ➔ "babe" is a term of address; together with "fire" it forms a vocative phrase.