I Can't Break It To My Heart – English Lyrics

• By: Delta Goodrem
• Album: Delta

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the emotive world of Delta Goodrem with this moving ballad. By listening to this song, you can learn how to express complex emotions, nuances of heartbreak, and the use of metaphorical language in English, making it a perfect piece for understanding deep sentiment.

[English]

If it's okay, I'll leave the bed light on

And place your water glass where it belongs

And if it's alright, I'll lie awake at night

Pretending I am curled up at your side

See, I'm circling in these patterns

Living out of memories

I'm still a long way from accepting it

That there's just no you and me

But if I still believe you love me, maybe I'll survive

So, I tell myself you're coming home

Like you've done a million times

And if it's alright I'll still be loving you

'Cause I can't break it to my heart

...

Is it just me? Did I commit a crime?

I won't believe that loving you

Is just a waste of time or was it in my head

I'm reading into things you never said

'Cause I still don't have the answers

To why, we couldn't work it out

I wanna think it's something that I did

So, I can turn it back around

But if I still believe you love me, maybe I'll survive

...

So, I tell myself you're coming home

Like you've done a million times

And if it's alright I'll still be loving you

'Cause I can't break it to my heart

...

And nothing will come between us

...

I wanna convince myself we're perfect

In every single way as long as I can keep

...

The truth away from my heart

...

Oh, 'cause I can't break it to my heart, oh

...

'Cause I still don't have the answers

To why, we couldn't work it out

I wanna think it's something that I did

So, I can turn it back around

But if I still believe you love me, maybe I'll survive

...

So, I tell myself you're coming home

Like you've done a million times

And if it's alright I'll still be loving you

...

But if I still believe you love me, maybe I'll survive

So, I tell myself you're coming home

Like you've done a million times

And if it's alright I'll still be loving you

...

And if it's alright, I'll still be loving you

'Cause I can't break it to my heart

I can't break it to my heart, oh

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
circling /ˈsɜːrklɪŋ/ B1	verb - move in a circular route
memories /ˈmɛməriz/ A2	noun - things remembered
accepting /əkˈsɛptɪŋ/ B1	verb - to consider something as satisfactory or true
survive /sərˈvaɪv/ B1	verb - to continue to live
commit /kəˈmɪt/ B2	verb - to do something, especially something wrong or illegal
waste /weɪst/ A2	noun - an unnecessary or improper use of something
reading /ˈriːdɪŋ/ A2	verb - the action or process of looking at and understanding written or printed matter
answers /ˈænsərz/ A2	noun - a reply to a question
convince /kənˈvɪns/ B1	verb - to persuade someone to do or believe something
perfect /ˈpɜːrfɪkt/ A2	adjective - having all the required or desirable elements, qualities, or characteristics
truth /truːθ/ A2	noun - the quality or state of being true
million /ˈmɪljən/ A2	noun - a large number
alright /ɔːlˈraɪt/ A2	adjective - satisfactory or acceptable
patterns /ˈpætərnz/ B1	noun - a discernible regularity in the way that something happens or is done
work /wɜːrk/ A2	verb - to be successful or effective

Key Grammar Structures

• If it's okay, I'll leave the bed light on

  ➔ First Conditional

  ➔ Used "If" + present simple to talk about a possible future situation.

• Pretending I am curled up at your side

  ➔ Present Participle Phrase

  ➔ The "-ing" form is used to describe a simultaneous action or state.

• I'm still a long way from accepting it

  ➔ Gerund after preposition

  ➔ The verb after the preposition "from" must be in the "-ing" form.

• Like you've done a million times

  ➔ Present Perfect

  ➔ "Have done" expresses an action repeated multiple times up to the present.

• Why, we couldn't work it out

  ➔ Modal verb of past ability/possibility

  ➔ "Couldn't" indicates a failure or inability to resolve something in the past.

• I wanna think it's something that I did

  ➔ Relative clause

  ➔ "That I did" defines or gives more information about "something".

• As long as I can keep the truth away

  ➔ Conjunction of condition

  ➔ "As long as" is used to set a condition for an action or state.

• I can't break it to my heart

  ➔ Idiomatic expression

  ➔ "Break it to someone" means to tell someone bad or difficult news.