Hentai – English Lyrics

• By: Cigarettes After Sex
• Album: Cry

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the ethereal soundscapes of Cigarettes After Sex's "Hentai" to explore intimate conversations and the subtle nuances of romantic yearning. This song offers a unique opportunity to learn how English lyrics can convey vulnerability and complex emotional landscapes, making it a captivating piece for language learners interested in poetic and personal expression.

[English]

There was a hentai video that I saw

I told you about the night that we first made love

About a girl, who as soon as she made you come

Could show you the future and tell you your fortune

Beautiful hearts are in your eyes

I've been waiting for you to fall for me and let me in your life

I've been waiting for you

...

Told you I wanted to die in an airplane crash over the ocean

Thought it was romantic, but you didn't like it

Thought it was stupid and thinking of me dead was making you

Feel bad...

Beautiful hearts are in your eyes

I've been waiting for you to fall for me and let me in your life

I've been waiting for you

...

Beautiful hearts are in your eyes

I've been waiting for you to fall for me and let me in your life

I've been waiting for you

...

Key Grammar Structures

• There was a hentai video that I saw

  ➔ Past Simple

  ➔ The verb "saw" is in the past simple, indicating a completed action in the past.

• I told you about the night that we first made love

  ➔ Past Simple + Relative Clause

  ➔ The verb "told" is past simple, and the clause "that we first made love" is a relative clause providing extra information.

• Could show you the future and tell you your fortune

  ➔ Modal verb "could" + infinitive

  ➔ The modal "could" expresses ability or possibility, followed by the base form "show" and "tell".

• As soon as she made you come

  ➔ Temporal clause with "as soon as" + past simple

  ➔ The phrase "as soon as" introduces a condition that is fulfilled immediately; the verb "made" is in the past simple.

• I've been waiting for you to fall for me and let me in your life

  ➔ Present Perfect Continuous

  ➔ "I've been waiting" uses the present perfect continuous to show an action that started in the past and continues to the present.

• Told you I wanted to die in an airplane crash over the ocean

  ➔ Past simple + verb + infinitive (wanted to die)

  ➔ The verb "wanted" is in the past simple and is followed by the infinitive "to die" to express a past desire.

• Thought it was romantic, but you didn't like it

  ➔ Past simple + past simple negative

  ➔ "Thought" and "didn't like" are both in the past simple; "didn't" is the contracted negative form of "did not".

• Thinking of you dead was making you feel bad

  ➔ Gerund phrase as subject + past continuous (was making)

  ➔ "Thinking" is a gerund acting as the subject; "was making" is past continuous showing an ongoing action in the past.

• Beautiful hearts are in your eyes

  ➔ Simple present (are)

  ➔ "are" is the present simple form of "be", used here to state a general fact.