For You – English Lyrics

• By: Staind
• Album: Break The Cycle

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

To my mother, to my father

It's your son or it's your daughter

Are my screams loud enough for you to hear me?

Should I turn this up for you?

I sit here locked inside my head

Remembering everything you've said

The silence gets us nowhere

Gets us nowhere way too fast

The silence is what kills me

I need someone here to help me

But you don't know how to listen

And let me make my decisions

I sit here locked inside my head

Remembering everything you've said

The silence gets us nowhere

Gets us nowhere way too fast

...

All your insults and your curses

Make me feel like I'm not a person

And I feel like I am nothing

But you made me, so do something

'Cause I'm fucked up because you are

Need attention, attention you couldn't give

'Cause I sit here locked inside my head

Remembering everything you've said

The silence gets us nowhere

Gets us nowhere way too fast

I sit here locked inside my head

Remembering everything you've said

The silence gets us nowhere

Gets us nowhere way too fast

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
mother /ˈmʌðər/ A1	noun - a female parent
father /ˈfɑːðər/ A1	noun - a male parent
son /sʌn/ A1	noun - a male child
daughter /ˈdɔːtər/ A1	noun - a female child
scream /skriːm/ B1	noun - a loud, high‑pitched cry verb - to shout loudly
head /hɛd/ A1	noun - the upper part of the human body containing the brain
silence /ˈsaɪləns/ B1	noun - the complete absence of sound
locked /lɒkt/ B1	adjective - secured with a lock; not able to be opened
remember /rɪˈmɛm.bɚ/ A2	verb - to bring a past event to mind
need /niːd/ A1	verb - to require or be necessary
help /hɛlp/ A1	verb - to assist or aid
listen /ˈlɪs.ən/ A2	verb - to give attention to sound
make /meɪk/ A1	verb - to create or cause to exist
feel /fiːl/ A2	verb - to experience an emotion or physical sensation
person /ˈpɜːr.sən/ A1	noun - a human being
nothing /ˈnʌθ.ɪŋ/ A1	pronoun - not anything; no thing
attention /əˈtɛn.ʃən/ B1	noun - the act of focusing the mind on something
insult /ɪnˈsʌlt/ B2	noun - a disrespectful or scornful remark verb - to speak to or treat with disrespect
curse /kɜːrs/ B2	noun - a profane word or a prayer invoking harm verb - to invoke a curse upon someone

Key Grammar Structures

• Are my screams loud enough for you to hear me?

  ➔ Enough + to-infinitive

  ➔ Shows sufficiency. 'Loud enough' modifies 'screams', and 'to hear' indicates purpose/result.

• Should I turn this up for you?

  ➔ Modal verb for suggestion

  ➔ "Should" expresses suggestion or seeking advice about a possible action.

• I sit here locked inside my head

  ➔ Past participle as adjective

  ➔ "Locked" functions as an adjective describing the state of 'I', not a verb.

• The silence gets us nowhere

  ➔ Verb + object + complement

  ➔ "Gets" (verb) takes "us" (object) and "nowhere" (complement showing result).

• I need someone here to help me

  ➔ Verb + object + to-infinitive

  ➔ "Need" is followed by object "someone" and infinitive "to help" showing purpose.

• But you don't know how to listen

  ➔ Verb + question word + to-infinitive

  ➔ "Know how to" expresses ability. "How" connects to the infinitive "to listen".

• And let me make my decisions

  ➔ Causative verb + bare infinitive

  ➔ "Let" (causative) is followed by object "me" and bare infinitive "make" (without 'to').

• All your insults and your curses make me feel like I'm not a person

  ➔ Complex object + comparative clause

  ➔ "Make me feel" has complex object structure. "Like" introduces comparative clause modifying "feel".

• Cause I'm fucked up because you are

  ➔ Ellipsis in comparative clause

  ➔ The verb "fucked up" is omitted after "you are" (full form: "because you are fucked up").

• Need attention, attention you couldn't give

  ➔ Apposition + reduced relative clause

  ➔ "Attention you couldn't give" is appositive phrase modifying first "attention", with omitted relative pronoun (that/which).