Monster – English Lyrics

• By: Lady Gaga
• Album: The Fame Monster

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into Lady Gaga's electrifying "Monster," a pulsating electropop track from her iconic "The Fame Monster" EP. This song offers a fascinating linguistic journey through its raw exploration of fear, attachment, and complex relationships, using vivid metaphors and direct language. Listen closely to the powerful imagery and the rhythm of the lyrics to grasp its intense emotional core, making it a captivating piece for understanding English song narratives and a unique artist's expression.

[English]

Don't call me Gaga

I've never seen one like that before

...

Don't look at me like that

You amaze me

He ate my heart, he a-a-ate my heart (you little monster)

He ate my heart, he a-a-ate my heart out (you amaze me)

Ate my heart, he a-a-ate my heart

He ate my heart, he a-a-ate my heart out (big boy)

Look at him, look at me

That boy is bad and honestly

He's a wolf in disguise

But I can't stop staring in those evil eyes (evil eyes, evil eyes)

I asked my girlfriend if she'd seen you 'round before (oh yeah)

She mumbled something while we got down on the floor, baby

"We might've fucked, not really sure, don't quite recall

But something tells me that I've seen him, yeah"

That boy is a monster (mo-mo-mo-monster)

That boy is a monster (mo-mo-mo-monster)

That boy is a monster (mo-mo-mo-monster)

That boy is a monster-er-er-er-er-er

He ate my heart (I love that girl)

He ate my heart (wanna talk to her, she's hot as hell)

He ate my heart (I love that girl)

He ate my heart (wanna talk to her, she's hot as hell)

He licked his lips

Said to me, "Girl, you look good enough to eat"

Put his arms around me

Said, "Boy, no, get your paws right off of me"

I asked my girlfriend if she'd seen you 'round before (oh yeah)

She mumbled something while we got down on the floor, baby

"We might've fucked, not really sure, don't quite recall (oh yeah)

But something tells me that I've seen him, yeah"

That boy is a monster (mo-mo-mo-monster)

(Could I love him?)

That boy is a monster (mo-mo-mo-monster)

(Could I love him?)

That boy is a monster (mo-mo-mo-monster)

(Could I love him?)

That boy is a monster-er-er-er-er-er

He ate my heart (I love that girl)

He ate my heart (wanna talk to her, she's hot as hell)

He ate my heart (I love that girl)

He ate my heart (wanna talk to her, she's hot as hell)

He ate my heart, he ate my heart

Instead, he's the monster in my bed

He ate my heart, he ate my heart

Instead, he's the monster in my bed

I wanna just dance, but he took me home instead

Uh-oh, there was a monster in my bed

We French-kissed on a subway train

He tore my clothes right off

He ate my heart and then he ate my brain

Uh-oh, uh-oh (I love that girl)

(Wanna talk to her, she's hot as hell)

He ate my heart (uh-oh)

He a-a-ate my heart (uh-oh-oh, oh)

He ate my heart (wanna talk to her, she's hot as hell)

(That boy, that boy, that boy, that boy)

That boy is a monster (mo-mo-mo-monster)

(Could I love him?)

That boy is a monster (mo-mo-mo-monster)

(Could I love him?)

That boy is a monster (mo-mo-mo-monster)

(Could I love him?)

That boy is a monster-er-er-er-er-er

That boy is a monster (he ate my heart) (mo-mo-mo-monster)

(Could I love him?)

That boy is a monster (he ate my heart) (mo-mo-mo-monster)

(Could I love him?)

That boy is a monster (mo-mo-mo-monster)

(Could I love him?)

That boy is a monster-er-er-er-er-er

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
heart /hɑːrt/ A1	noun - a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation.
boy /bɔɪ/ A1	noun - a male child or young man
love /lʌv/ A1	verb - have a strong feeling of affection for (someone). noun - an intense feeling of deep affection.
monster /ˈmɒnstər/ A2	noun - a large, ugly, and frightening imaginary creature.
look /lʊk/ A1	verb - to direct one's gaze towards someone or something or in a specified direction.
ate /eɪt/ A1	verb - past tense of eat; put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it.
lips /lɪps/ A2	noun - either of the two fleshy parts forming the edge of the mouth.
good /ɡʊd/ A1	adjective - to be desired or approved of.
bed /bed/ A1	noun - a piece of furniture used for sleeping or resting on.
girl /ɡɜːrl/ A1	noun - a female child or young woman.
eyes /aɪz/ A1	noun - each of a pair of globular organs in the head through which people and vertebrate animals see.
evil /ˈiːvl/ B1	adjective - profoundly immoral and wicked.
arms /ɑːrmz/ A2	noun - each of the two upper limbs of the human body from the shoulder to the hand.
dance /dæns/ A1	verb - move rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps.
brain /breɪn/ B1	noun - an organ of soft nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates, functioning as the coordinating center of sensation and intellectual and nervous activity.

Key Grammar Structures

• I've never seen one like that before

  ➔ Present Perfect with 'never' and 'before'

  ➔ Uses the present perfect ('I've seen') to express an experience up to now. 'Never' emphasizes the lack of prior experience, and 'before' reinforces that the speaker has not seen something similar at any point in the past.

• He ate my heart, he a-a-ate my heart out

  ➔ Past Simple (ate) and Phrasal Verb (ate...out)

  ➔ "Ate" is the simple past tense of 'eat', describing a completed action in the past. "Ate my heart out" is a phrasal verb that intensifies the meaning, implying a devastating emotional impact.

• I asked my girlfriend if she'd seen you 'round before

  ➔ Indirect Question (with Past Perfect)

  ➔ The structure 'I asked if she'd seen' uses an indirect question, reporting what was asked without a direct question mark. 'She'd seen' is a contraction of 'she had seen', using the past perfect to indicate an action completed before the asking.

• We might've fucked, not really sure, don't quite recall

  ➔ Modal Verb of Possibility (might have) + Past Participle

  ➔ "Might've fucked" uses 'might have' + past participle to express a possibility or speculation about a past event. The addition of "not really sure, don't quite recall" reinforces the uncertainty.

• But something tells me that I've seen him, yeah

  ➔ Intuition/Impression ('Something tells me') + Present Perfect ('I've seen')

  ➔ 'Something tells me' expresses an intuition or feeling. The present perfect 'I've seen' connects this intuition to a potential past experience, implying the speaker might recognize the person.

• Girl, you look good enough to eat

  ➔ Adjective + "enough" + to-infinitive

  ➔ The structure 'good enough to eat' indicates that something possesses a quality to a sufficient degree to warrant a specific action or feeling (in this case, the hyperbole of wanting to literally eat someone). 'Enough' modifies the adjective 'good', and 'to eat' explains the consequence or purpose of that sufficient quality.