I'll Never Love Again – English Lyrics

• By: Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper
• Album: A Star Is Born Soundtrack

Lyrics & Translation

Learning a language through music is a powerful tool, and "I'll Never Love Again" offers a profound emotional journey for English learners. The song's straightforward yet poignant lyrics provide a clear expression of deep love and loss, making the vocabulary and sentiments relatively easy to understand. What makes this song special is the authentic emotion poured into it by Lady Gaga, stemming from a real-life loss, which transcends language and allows learners to connect with the heart of the English language through universal feelings of love and grief.

[English]

Wish I could, I could've said goodbye

I would've said what I wanted to

Maybe even cried for you

If I knew, it would be the last time

I would've broke my heart in two

Tryin' to save a part of you

Don't wanna feel another touch

Don't wanna start another fire

Don't wanna know another kiss

No other name falling off my lips

Don't wanna to give my heart away

To another stranger

Or let another day begin

Won't even let the sunlight in

No, I'll never love again

I'll never love again, ooh

...

When we first met

I never thought that I would fall

I never thought that I'd find myself

Lying in your arms

And I want to pretend that it's not true

Oh baby, that you're gone

'Cause my world keeps turning, and turning, and turning

And I'm not moving on

Don't wanna feel another touch

Don't wanna start another fire

Don't wanna know another kiss

No other name falling off my lips

Don't wanna give my heart away

To another stranger

Or let another day begin

Won't even let the sunlight in

No, I'll never love

I don't wanna know this feeling

Unless it's you and me

I don't wanna waste a moment, ooh

...

And I don't wanna give somebody else the better part of me

I would rather wait for you, ooh

...

Don't wanna feel another touch

Don't wanna start another fire

Don't wanna know another kiss

Baby, unless they are your lips

Don't wanna give my heart away

To another stranger

Or let another day begin

Won't even let the sunlight in

Oh, I'll never love again

Love again

Oh, I'll never love again

I'll never love again

I wouldn't want to swear I can

I wish I could but I just won't

I'll never love again

I'll never love again, oh

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - an intense feeling of affection. verb - to feel deep affection for someone.
goodbye /ˌɡʊdˈbaɪ/ A1	noun - an expression of farewell
cried /kraɪd/ A2	verb - shed tears, typically as an expression of distress, pain, or sorrow.
heart /hɑːrt/ A1	noun - a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation.
touch /tʌtʃ/ A2	noun - the action of bringing one's hand or another part of the body into contact with someone or something. verb - come into or be in contact with.
fire /ˈfaɪər/ A1	noun - combustion or burning, in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke.
kiss /kɪs/ A2	noun - an act of touching someone with your lips to show affection or sexual desire, or to greet them. verb - touch or caress with the lips as a sign of love or greeting.
name /neɪm/ A1	noun - a word or set of words by which a person, animal, place, or thing is known, addressed, or referred to. verb - give a name to.
stranger /ˈstreɪndʒər/ B1	noun - a person whom one does not know or with whom one is not familiar.
sunlight /ˈsʌnlaɪt/ B1	noun - the light from the sun.
fall /fɔːl/ A2	verb - move downwards, typically rapidly and freely without control, from a higher to a lower level.
arms /ɑːrmz/ A1	noun - each of the two upper limbs of the human body from the shoulder to the hand.
world /wɜːrld/ A1	noun - the earth, together with all of its countries, peoples, and natural features.
feeling /ˈfiːlɪŋ/ A2	noun - an emotional state or reaction.
better /ˈbɛtər/ A2	adjective - of a higher standard, or more suitable, effective, or attractive than something else.

Key Grammar Structures

• Wish I could, I could've said goodbye

  ➔ Past Conditional (Wish + Past Simple/Past Perfect)

  ➔ Expresses regret about something that didn't happen in the past. "Wish" + "I could" indicates a desire for a different past action. "I could've said goodbye" uses the conditional perfect, indicating the speaker regrets not having said goodbye.

• If I knew, it would be the last time

  ➔ Second Conditional

  ➔ Hypothetical situation in the present/future. "If" + Past Simple (I knew), "would be" + base form of the verb. It expresses an unreal or unlikely situation. It implies that the speaker didn't know.

• I would've broke my heart in two

  ➔ Conditional Perfect (would have + past participle)

  ➔ Expresses a hypothetical past action and its result. The speaker implies that they would have intentionally broken their heart, but it didn't happen because they didn't know it was the last time.

• Don't wanna feel another touch

  ➔ Informal Contraction & Negative Imperative

  ➔ "Wanna" is an informal contraction of "want to". "Don't" combined with the base verb creates a negative imperative, expressing a strong desire *not* to do something.

• No other name falling off my lips

  ➔ Present Participle as an Adjective

  ➔ "Falling" is a present participle acting as an adjective describing the "name". It implies the action of the name leaving the lips is happening at the present moment or habitually.

• Or let another day begin

  ➔ Bare Infinitive after 'let'

  ➔ The verb "let" is a causative verb, meaning it causes something to happen. After "let", we use the base form of the verb (bare infinitive) without "to".

• I'll never love again

  ➔ Future Simple Negative

  ➔ "I'll" is a contraction of "I will". Combining "will" with "never" before the verb expresses a strong intention or determination *not* to do something in the future.

• I wouldn't want to swear I can

  ➔ Conditional with negative intention

  ➔ "Wouldn't want to" expresses unwillingness to perform an action. It softens the refusal and indicates a preference for avoiding a situation. "Swear I can" implies making a promise about one's ability to do something (in this case, to love again), which the speaker is not willing to do.