I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart – English Lyrics

• By: The White Stripes
• Album: Elephant

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

作词 : Jack White

作曲 : Jack White

I want to be the boy to warm your mother's heart

I'm so scared to take you away

I tried to win her over right from the start

But something always got in the way

We've been sitting in your backyard for hours

But she won't even come out and say hi

While my mother baked a little cake for you

And even dreaded when you said goodbye

What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull?

What kind of joke should I lay on her now?

I'm inclined to go finish high school

Just to make her notice that I'm around

Well nothing I come up with seems to work

It feels like everything I say is a lie

And never have I felt like such a jerk

I'm afraid to even open my eyes

Because I really don't want her to judge me

I want her to really know who I am

And then and only then will she love me

Well at least that was the plan

If ever a boy needed a holiday

If ever a girl needed someone to hold

I just hope I don't act the same way

By the time that I get that old

What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull?

What kind of joke should I lay on her now?

I'm inclined to go finish high school

Just to make her notice that I'm around

I never said I was an heir to a fortune

I never claimed to have any looks

But these kind of things must be important

'Cause somebody ripped out my page in your telephone book

I want to warm her heart

Key Grammar Structures

• I want to be the boy to warm your mother's heart

  ➔ Infinitive of purpose (to + verb)

  ➔ "I want" "to be" the boy "to warm" your mother's heart.

• I'm so scared to take you away

  ➔ Adjective + infinitive

  ➔ "I'm" "so" "scared" "to take" you away.

• We've been sitting in your backyard for hours

  ➔ Present perfect continuous (have/has been + V‑ing)

  ➔ "We've been sitting" in your backyard for hours.

• While my mother baked a little cake for you

  ➔ While clause with past simple

  ➔ "While" my mother "baked" a little cake for you.

• What kind of cartwheels do I have to pull?

  ➔ Modal 'have to' in questions

  ➔ What kind of cartwheels do I "have to" pull?

• I'm inclined to go finish high school

  ➔ Adjective 'inclined' + infinitive

  ➔ "I'm inclined" "to go" finish high school.

• It feels like everything I say is a lie

  ➔ "Like" + clause (comparative clause)

  ➔ It feels "like" everything I say is a lie.

• I never said I was an heir to a fortune

  ➔ Never + past simple

  ➔ I "never" said I was an heir to a fortune.

• But something always got in the way

  ➔ Adverb of frequency + past simple

  ➔ But something "always" got in the way.