Life – English Lyrics

• By: Florida Georgia Line

Lyrics & Translation

Thinking about learning a new language? Why not start with the heartfelt storytelling of American Country music through Florida Georgia Line's song "Life." This track offers a chance to learn colloquial phrases and narrative techniques common in country music. Its clear and emotional lyrics about life's ups and downs make it a great song to connect with, all while picking up some new English vocabulary and a piece of American musical culture.

[English]

Well, daddy taught me how to throw curveball

The summer I turned 13

And first base, first taste of finding a song on my old six-string

I wish I would known then what I know now

Yeah, I guess we all do

It wasn't very long 'fore I found out life throws a pretty mean curveball too

It'll get you high

It'll get you low

That's just life

And how it goes

Well, daddy was gone by the time that I felt my first heartbreak

And good lord, that good lord sure can give and sure can take

I wish I'd known then what I know now, I guess we all do

Now there's pictures on the wall, up and down the hall

Of me and her sayin' I do

It'll get you high

It'll get you low

That's just life

And how it goes

It's blessings and burnings and lessons and learning

And playing and working and healing and hurting

It's praying and cursing

One thing's for certain

That's just life

Yeah, that's just life

That's just life

Yeah, that's just life

The smiles, the laughs the tears that flow

The good, the bad will pass as sure as the sun

Coming up in the morning

The sun's coming up in the morning

So, love and live and take it slow

No matter where you're at

Just know that the sun's coming up in the morning

That's just life

Yeah, that's just life

That's just life

Yeah, that's just life

It'll get you high

It'll get you low

That's just life

And how it goes

It's blessings and burnings and lessons and learning

And playing and working and healing and hurting

It's praying and cursing

One thing's for certain

That's just life

Yeah, that's just life

That's just life

Yeah, that's just life

Some things you can't change

Some things you can't explain

You gotta give it to the Lord

That's just life

Yeah, that's just life

Some things you can't change

Some things you can't explain

You gotta give it to the Lord

That's just life

Yeah, that's just life

...

Key Grammar Structures

• Well, daddy taught me how to throw curveball

  ➔ Past Simple Tense

  ➔ The verb 'taught' is in the past simple tense, indicating a completed action in the past.

• I wish I would have known then what I know now

  ➔ Past Perfect in Wish Clauses

  ➔ The structure 'wish + would have + past participle' expresses a wish about the past.

• It'll get you high, It'll get you low

  ➔ Future Contractions

  ➔ The contractions 'It'll' (It will) are used for informal or conversational tone.

• That's just life, And how it goes

  ➔ Present Simple for General Truths

  ➔ The present simple 'is' is used to express general truths or facts.

• It's blessings and burnings and lessons and learning

  ➔ Gerunds after Prepositions

  ➔ The gerunds 'blessings', 'burnings', 'lessons', 'learning' are used after the preposition 'and'.

• Some things you can't change, Some things you can't explain

  ➔ Universal Truths with 'Some'

  ➔ The use of 'Some' emphasizes general statements about life's unpredictability.

• You gotta give it to the Lord

  ➔ Informal Modal 'Gotta'

  ➔ 'Gotta' is an informal contraction of 'have got to', indicating necessity.