Kill For Your Love – English Lyrics

• By: Labrinth
• Album: Ends & Begins

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into Labrinth's captivating world with "Kill For Your Love," a song that masterfully blends intense emotion with powerful storytelling. Its rich, evocative lyrics offer a unique opportunity to explore English vocabulary related to passion, devotion, and even the darker facets of love. Labrinth's distinctive vocal style and genre-fusing production make this track a compelling listen that will deepen your understanding of modern English songwriting.

[English]

(insect crawling) (dramatic music)

(car roaring)

(upbeat electronic music)

♪ Ooh, ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ♪

♪ Ooh, ooh ♪

♪ Nine millimeter, strapped with that heat, what ♪

♪ Vampire slayer, stake's on me, ooh ♪

♪ Bow and arrow, call me chief Cherokee, ooh, ooh ♪

♪ I'll go animal to keep you next to me, ahh ♪

♪ When you lay me down in, hey ♪

♪ In some supernatural way ♪

♪ And you take my body, hey ♪

♪ To the Himalayan sea ♪

♪ Purify me, woo ♪

♪ Resurrect me from the grave ♪

♪ Baby darling, hey ♪

♪ I'll do anything you say ♪

♪ I'll, I'll kill, I'll kill for ♪

♪ A little drop of your good love ♪

♪ I'll rob and steal stars ♪

♪ To keep it lit up in your world ♪

♪ The alphabet need only U and S ♪

♪ 'Cause all we'll ever need is us ♪

♪ I'll kill, I'll kill for ♪

♪ A little drop of your good love ♪

♪ Baby, open the door for me ♪

♪ Tell me just what I did to make you go so quiet ♪

♪ Who's he, who is he ♪

♪ Must be someone else tonight ♪

♪ Believe me, I won't be going nowhere without a fight ♪

♪ Ohh, hey, hey ♪

♪ When you lay me down in, yeah ♪

♪ In some supernatural way ♪

♪ And you take my body, yeah, yeah ♪

♪ To the Himalayan sea ♪

♪ Sugar honey, woo ♪

♪ I'll do anything you say ♪

♪ I'll, I'll kill, I'll kill for ♪

♪ A little drop of your good love ♪

♪ I'll rob and steal stars ♪

♪ To keep it lit up in your world ♪

♪ The alphabet need only U and S ♪

♪ 'Cause all we'll ever need is us ♪

♪ I'll kill, I'll kill for ♪

♪ A little drop of your good love ♪

♪ Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum ♪

♪ Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum ♪

♪ Kill for your love ♪

♪ Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum ♪

♪ Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-ooh ♪

♪ Kill for your love ♪

♪ Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum ♪

♪ Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum ♪

♪ Kill for your love ♪

♪ Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum ♪

♪ Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum ♪

♪ Kill for your love ♪

♪ Dum ♪

(mask whooshing) (text whooshing)

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
kill /kɪl/ B1	verb - to cause death
love /lʌv/ A2	noun - a feeling of deep affection verb - to feel deep affection for someone or something
drop /drɒp/ B1	noun - a small round-shaped amount of liquid dropped from something verb - to let or make something fall or move downward
steal /stiːl/ B2	verb - to secretly take something belonging to someone else
rob /rɒb/ B2	verb - to take property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat
body /ˈbɒdi/ A2	noun - the physical structure of a person or animal
sea /siː/ A1	noun - the large body of salt water that covers most of the Earth's surface
grave /ɡreɪv/ C1	noun - a burial place for a dead body
resurrect /ˌrɛz.əˈrɛkt/ C1	verb - to bring back to life
power /ˈpaʊər/ B2	noun - the ability to influence or control people or things
supernatural /ˌsuːpərˈnætʃərəl/ C1	adjective - beyond or exceeding natural laws
star /stɑːr/ A2	noun - a luminous point in the night sky

Key Grammar Structures

• I'll go animal to keep you next to me, ahh

  ➔ Comparative Adjective

  ➔ The phrase 'go animal' is an idiomatic expression, but grammatically, 'animal' here acts as a comparative adjective, implying a state of being extremely aggressive or instinctive to achieve the goal of keeping someone close.

• When you lay me down in, hey

  ➔ Subordinate Clause

  ➔ The phrase 'When you lay me down in' is a subordinate clause that acts as an adverbial clause of time, indicating the timing of the action described in the main clause.

• I'll do anything you say

  ➔ Modal Verb (Will) for Future

  ➔ The use of 'I'll' (contraction of 'I will') indicates a future action or promise, emphasizing the speaker's willingness to comply with the listener's requests.

• The alphabet need only U and S

  ➔ Subject-Verb Agreement (Plural Subject with Singular Verb)

  ➔ The subject 'The alphabet' is singular, but the verb 'need' is used in the singular form, which is correct because 'alphabet' is a singular noun despite referring to multiple letters.

• Believe me, I won't be going nowhere without a fight

  ➔ Double Negative

  ➔ The phrase 'won't be going nowhere' is an example of a double negative, which is grammatically incorrect in standard English but is used here for emphasis or stylistic purposes.