Magnetised – English Lyrics

• By: Tom Odell
• Album: Best Day Of My Life

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the emotional depths of unrequited love with Tom Odell's "Magnetised". This song offers a poignant look at longing and frustration, wrapped in Odell's signature piano-driven sound. Delve into the lyrics to understand the universal struggle of loving someone who doesn't love you back, and discover the poetic expression of complex emotions.

[English]

See those birds going across the sky

Three thousand miles they fly

How do they know which way to go?

Somehow they always seem to know

They say there's mother nature in everything we see

Wish I had a little mother nature in me

Wish I had a little mother nature in me

Cause it's not right, I'm magnetised

To somebody that don't feel it

Love paralysed, she's never gonna need me

But sure as the world keeps the moon in the sky

She'll keep me hanging on

She keeps me hanging on

See the couple lying on the bus

Falling asleep with so much trust

I wish I had a chance to let them know

Their love is like a flower in the snow

If it's just pheromones then that may be

I wish you had a little pheromones for me

I wish you had a little pheromones for me

Cause it's not right, I'm magnetised

To somebody that don't feel it

Love paralysed, I know you're never gonna need me

But sure as the world keeps the moon in the sky

She'll keep me hanging on (keeps me hanging on)

She keeps me hanging on (keeps me hanging on)

She keeps me hanging on

North to south, white to black

When you love someone that don't love you back

Yeah it's not right, I'm magnetised

To somebody that don't feel it

Love paralysed, she's never gonna need me

But sure as the world keeps the moon in the sky

She'll keep me hanging on (keep me hanging on)

She keeps me hanging on (keep me hanging on)

She'll keep me hanging on (keep me hanging on)

She'll keep me hanging on

Key Grammar Structures

• See those birds going across the sky

  ➔ Present continuous tense

  ➔ The phrase 'going across' uses the present continuous tense to describe an action happening now.

• How do they know which way to go?

  ➔ Interrogative sentence with auxiliary verb

  ➔ The sentence uses 'do' as an auxiliary verb to form a question.

• Wish I had a little mother nature in me

  ➔ Past subjunctive mood

  ➔ 'Wish' introduces the past subjunctive mood, expressing a desire contrary to fact.

• Cause it's not right, I'm magnetised

  ➔ Present simple tense with contraction

  ➔ The contraction 'I'm' is used for 'I am' in the present simple tense.

• She'll keep me hanging on

  ➔ Future simple tense with contraction

  ➔ The contraction 'she'll' is used for 'she will' in the future simple tense.

• North to south, white to black

  ➔ Parallel structure

  ➔ The phrase uses parallel structure with 'to' to compare opposites.

• When you love someone that don't love you back

  ➔ Relative clause with 'that'

  ➔ The relative clause 'that don't love you back' describes 'someone'.