Forget How To Love – English Lyrics

• By: Meghan Trainor
• Album: Timeless

Lyrics & Translation

Learning a language through music is a powerful tool, and Meghan Trainor's "Forget How To Love" offers a great opportunity to explore emotive and direct English vocabulary. The song's clear message against online hate and its uplifting theme of self-worth make the lyrics both meaningful and easier to understand. Its soulful style and heartfelt delivery can help learners connect with the language on an emotional level.

[English]

Did you forget how to love?

'Cause I been pickin' up all the pieces of my broken heart

Why you gotta behave (why you gotta behave)

That way? (That way?)

I'm tryna find a way back, you make it so damn hard (oh)

I know, I know your words shouldn't hurt me (but they hurt me, yeah, they hurt me)

Sometimes, your sticks and stones, they be dirty (they be dirty, they do me dirty)

All you wanna do is make me feel unworthy (but I'm worthy)

Hm, how did we end up here?

Did you forget how to love? (Love)

Did you forget how to love? (Love, oh, did you?)

Just because you're drowning in your pain

That don't mean I gotta feel the same

Did you forget how to love? (Love)

Did you forget we're the same in our veins?

When you break down, every tear you cry falls just like mine

('Cause you be) breakin' hearts like it ain't a crime

(You should be) locked up 'cause you don't think twice

(Tell me) how do you sleep at night? (Oh, oh)

I know, I know your words shouldn't hurt me (but they hurt me, yeah, they hurt me)

Sometimes, your sticks and stones, they be dirty (they be dirty, they do me dirty)

Oh, and all you wanna do is make me feel unworthy (but I'm worthy)

Hm, how did we end up here?

Did you forget how to love? Oh (Love, did you?)

Did you forget how to love? Oh-oh (love)

Just because you're drowning in your pain (hey)

That don't mean I gotta feel the same

Did you forget how to love? (Love)

Oh, yeah (hey)

Just because you're drowning in your pain (drowning in your pain)

No, it don't mean I gotta feel the same (no, I don't gotta feel the same)

I said, "Just because you're drowning in your pain" (drowning in your pain)

No, it don't mean I gotta feel the same (feel the same)

Did you forget how to love? Oh (love)

Did you forget how to love? (Love)

Oh-oh, just because you're drowning in your pain

Don't mean I gotta feel the same

(Did you forget) how to love? (Love)

Love, love (love)

Ooh, did you forget how to love? (Love)

Just because you're drowning in your pain

That don't mean I gotta feel the same

Did you forget how to love? (Love)

Ooh, yeah

Oh, just because you're drowning in your pain, babe

(Did you forget how to love?)

No, it don't mean I gotta feel the same (no, no)

I said, "Just because you're drowning in your pain" (in your pain)

(Did you forget how to love?)

No, it don't mean I gotta feel the same (oh)

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
forget /fərˈɡet/ A2	verb - to be unable to remember information
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - an intense feeling of affection verb - to have strong affection for
heart /hɑːrt/ A1	noun - the organ that pumps blood noun - the center of emotion
pain /peɪn/ A2	noun - physical suffering or discomfort noun - emotional suffering
tear /tɪər/ A2	noun - drop of liquid from the eye verb - to rip or pull apart
break /breɪk/ A2	verb - to separate into pieces
cry /kraɪ/ A1	verb - to shed tears
sleep /sliːp/ A1	verb - to rest with eyes closed
drowning /ˈdraʊnɪŋ/ B1	verb - suffocating in water adjective - overwhelmed
worthy /ˈwɜːrði/ B2	adjective - deserving of respect or attention
crime /kraɪm/ B1	noun - an act punishable by law
behave /bɪˈheɪv/ B1	verb - to act in a certain way
pieces /ˈpiːsɪz/ A2	noun - fragments or parts
hard /hɑːrd/ A2	adjective - difficult
veins /veɪnz/ B2	noun - blood vessels
locked /lɒkt/ B1	verb - to secure with a lock

Key Grammar Structures

• Did you forget how to love?

  ➔ Inverted yes/no question with auxiliary ‘did’ + base verb

  ➔ The word "Did" is the past‑tense auxiliary that creates the question form.

• I'm tryna find a way back, you make it so damn hard.

  ➔ Present continuous with contraction; informal ‘tryna’ = ‘trying to’

  ➔ "I'm" is the contraction of "I am" used for the present continuous, and "tryna" stands for "trying to".

• I know, I know your words shouldn't hurt me (but they hurt me, yeah, they hurt me).

  ➔ Modal verb ‘shouldn’t’ for advice/prediction; present simple negative

  ➔ "shouldn't" expresses a negative expectation or advice – "your words shouldn't hurt me" means they are not supposed to hurt you.

• Just because you're drowning in your pain, that don't mean I gotta feel the same.

  ➔ Causal clause ‘just because’; present continuous; negative present simple; informal ‘gotta’ = ‘have to’

  ➔ "Just because" introduces a reason, "you're" is present continuous, "that don't mean" is a non‑standard negative present simple, and "gotta" is informal for "have to".

• Did you forget we're the same in our veins?

  ➔ Contraction ‘we're’; comparative structure ‘the same as’ (omitted ‘as’)

  ➔ "we're" = "we are"; "the same" is used as a comparative without the usual "as" after it.

• When you break down, every tear you cry falls just like mine.

  ➔ Zero conditional (present simple + present simple); simile ‘just like’

  ➔ "When you break down" sets a condition that is always true; "just like" introduces a comparison.

• All you wanna do is make me feel unworthy.

  ➔ Informal ‘wanna’ = ‘want to’; infinitive clause after ‘do is’

  ➔ "wanna" is the colloquial form of "want to"; the structure "All you want to do is + verb" uses an infinitive.

• I said, "Just because you're drowning in your pain".

  ➔ Reporting speech with past simple; quotation marks; present continuous inside quote

  ➔ "I said" puts the reporting verb in past simple, while the quoted clause remains in present continuous because it reflects the original words.