Holding You, Holding Me – English Lyrics

• By: Cigarettes After Sex
• Album: X's

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

When your love is slow

Hits me and I'm fading

In backyard waterfalls

At night when it's raining

Holding you, holding me

Kissing forever, we'll fall together

Holding you, holding me

Kissing, you're all I tasted

When it gets hot

The breeze is hitting slowly

And I get high

On every word you told me

Holding you, holding me

Kissing forever, we'll fall together

Holding you, holding me

Kissing, you're all I tasted

...

Give me just a little more

Just a little more

Just a little more to calm me

Give me just a little more

Just a little more

Just a little more to calm me

Your love is slow

Hits me and I'm fading

In waterfalls

At night when it's raining

Holding you, holding me

Kissing forever, we'll fall together

Holding you, holding me

Kissing forever, we'll fall together

Holding you, holding me

Kissing forever, we'll fall together

Holding you, holding me

Kissing, you're all I tasted, you're all I tasted

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
love /lʌv/ A2	noun - an intense feeling of affection
fall /fɔːl/ A2	verb - to drop or descend verb - to begin to feel (love)
kiss /kɪs/ A2	verb - to touch with the lips noun - an act of kissing
taste /teɪst/ B1	verb - to experience the flavor of noun - the sensation of flavor
waterfall /ˈwɔːtəfɔːl/ B1	noun - a cascade of water falling from a height
breeze /briːz/ B1	noun - a gentle wind
high /haɪ/ B1	adjective - far above the ground adjective - intoxicated
calm /kɑːm/ B1	adjective - peaceful and tranquil verb - to make or become tranquil
slow /sloʊ/ A2	adjective - moving or happening at a low speed
rain /reɪn/ A1	noun - water falling in drops from the clouds
hits /hɪts/ A2	verb - to strike forcefully
fading /ˈfeɪdɪŋ/ B2	verb - gradually becoming less visible
forever /fərˈevər/ B1	adverb - for all time
word /wɜːrd/ A1	noun - a unit of language
more /mɔːr/ A1	adjective - a greater amount

Key Grammar Structures

• When your love is slow

  ➔ Subordinating Clause of Time with "When"

  ➔ The sentence starts with a time clause, using "when" to introduce the condition under which something happens.

• Hits me and I'm fading

  ➔ Present Simple & Present Continuous; compound sentence with "and"

  ➔ Combines two clauses with "and", showing sequential actions. "Hits" is present simple (habitual action or general truth), and "I'm fading" is present continuous (action in progress).

• In backyard waterfalls

  ➔ Prepositional Phrase: "In" + noun, describing location.

  ➔ Uses the preposition "in" to indicate the location, modifying "waterfalls".

• At night when it's raining

  ➔ Prepositional phrase "At night" + Subordinating Clause: "when it's raining"

  ➔ Combines a prepositional phrase and a time clause using "when". Shows a time and the condition during which something happens.

• Holding you, holding me

  ➔ Present Participle as gerund, repeated. Emphasis on the action.

  ➔ Uses the present participle, "holding", twice to emphasize the act of holding. Acts as a gerund in a phrase.

• Kissing forever, we'll fall together

  ➔ Adverbial of manner & Future tense with Contraction.

  ➔ "Kissing forever" acts as an adverbial phrase describing how they will fall. "We'll" is the future tense contraction of "we will".

• Kissing, you're all I tasted

  ➔ Participle as an adjective, Relative Clause omission.

  ➔ "Kissing" acts as an adjective modifying what is tasted. "You're all that I tasted" with the relative pronoun (that) omitted.

• When it gets hot

  ➔ Subordinating Clause of Time with "When"

  ➔ Another instance of using a time clause with "when" to describe a condition.

• The breeze is hitting slowly

  ➔ Present Continuous & Adverbial of Manner

  ➔ Uses present continuous for the ongoing action. "Slowly" is an adverb modifying the verb "hitting".

• And I get high

  ➔ Conjunction "and" linking clauses and Verb Phrase.

  ➔ Uses "and" to connect two independent clauses. "get high" is a phrasal verb showing an emotional state.