Ghost

• By: Justin Bieber
• Album: Justice: The Complete Edition

Lyrics:

Vocabulary in this song:

Vocabulary	Meanings
miss /mɪs/ A1	verb - to feel sadness about the absence of someone or something
life /laɪf/ A1	noun - the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - an intense feeling of affection.
ghost /ɡoʊst/ B1	noun - the soul of a dead person believed to appear to the living.
touch /tʌtʃ/ A2	noun - the sense of feeling or physical contact
hollow /ˈhɑːloʊ/ B2	adjective - having a hole or empty space inside.
bridge /brɪdʒ/ A2	noun - a structure carrying a road, path, railroad, etc. across a river, road, or other obstacle.
memory /ˈmeməri/ B1	noun - the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.
ecstasy /ˈekstəsi/ C1	noun - an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement.
time /taɪm/ A1	noun - the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
youngblood /ˈjʌŋblʌd/ B2	noun - a young person, especially one regarded as vigorous and enthusiastic.
settle /ˈsetl/ B1	verb - to come to rest.
borrowed /ˈbɒroʊd/ B1	verb - past tense of borrow - to take and use (something belonging to someone else) with the intention of returning it.
follow /ˈfɑːloʊ/ A2	verb - to go or come after (a person or thing proceeding ahead).

Grammar:

• YOUNGBLOOD THINKS THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW

  ➔ Present Simple for general truths/beliefs

  ➔ The use of the present simple tense in "thinks" indicates a general belief or perspective that young people typically hold.

• I MISS YOUR TOUCH SOME NIGHTS WHEN I'M HOLLOW

  ➔ Use of "when" to indicate time; Present Simple "I'm hollow" to describe a current state

  ➔ "When" introduces a time clause. "I'm hollow" uses the present simple to express a feeling of emptiness that the speaker experiences at times.

• I KNOW YOU CROSSED A BRIDGE THAT I CAN'T FOLLOW

  ➔ Past Simple "crossed" for a completed action in the past; "that" as a relative pronoun; "can't" + infinitive (follow) to express inability

  ➔ "Crossed" is in the past simple because it refers to a specific action that happened in the past. "That" introduces a relative clause specifying the type of bridge. "Can't follow" expresses the speaker's inability to do something.

• SINCE THE LOVE THAT YOU LEFT IS ALL THAT I GET

  ➔ "Since" as a conjunction of reason; relative clause "that you left"; Present Simple "I get"

  ➔ "Since" indicates a cause-and-effect relationship. "That you left" is a relative clause modifying "the love". "I get" in the present simple signifies a current state of receiving only the love that was left behind.

• THAT IF I CAN'T BE CLOSE TO YOU, I'LL SETTLE FOR THE GHOST OF YOU

  ➔ Conditional Sentence Type 1 (zero conditional in this case due to "I'll settle" meaning 'willing to settle'); "if" + present simple, "will" + infinitive; "settle for" a phrasal verb

  ➔ This sentence expresses a possible condition and its likely result. "Settle for" means to accept something less than ideal. The "will" indicates a future action that the speaker is willing to take.

• I MISS YOU MORE THAN LIFE

  ➔ Comparative structure: "more than" to express a higher degree of something; "life" used as a standard for comparison.

  ➔ This is a hyperbolic statement used to emphasize the intensity of missing someone. Life is used as the ultimate measure to show how significant the feeling is.

• AND IF YOU CAN'T BE NEXT TO ME, YOUR MEMORY IS ECSTASY

  ➔ Conditional Sentence Type 1 (similar to zero conditional): "if" + present simple, present simple; Metaphorical Language: equating memory to "ecstasy"

  ➔ This sentence again uses a conditional structure to present a hypothetical situation and its resulting feeling. The memory is personified to be a source of extreme pleasure or ecstasy.