Music Rescues Me – English Lyrics

• By: Paul van Dyk, Plumb
• Album: Music Rescues Me

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

From the belly of the city

The sky spills over us

And the streets snake through the earth

I'm switching off

Into a billion ones and zeros

Where everything is fixed

And I'm wrapped up in your song

From the inside of the moment

To the outside of a thought

From the order of ourselves

It's all laid out

Inside the DNA of living

Where nothing can go wrong

And I'm in the arms of this song

All the stars and planets are aligned

Your music rescues me

Your music rescues me again

A giant supernova in the night

Your music rescues me

Your music rescues me again

All the stars and planets are aligned

Your music rescues me

Your music rescues me again

We're taller than the surface of the sky

Your music rescues me

Your music rescues me again

Your music rescues me

All the stars and planets are aligned

Your music rescues me

Your music rescues me again

A giant supernova in the night

Your music rescues me

Your music rescues me again

All the stars and planets are aligned

Your music rescues me

Your music rescues me again

We're taller than the surface of the sky

Your music rescues me

Your music rescues me again

Key Grammar Structures

• From the belly of the city

  ➔ Prepositional phrase as an adverbial modifier

  ➔ The phrase "From the belly of the city" tells *where* the feeling originates. It modifies the verb implicitly. The preposition 'From' indicates origin or source.

• I'm switching off

  ➔ Phrasal verb

  ➔ "Switch off" means to disconnect or turn off, often mentally. The meaning is different from the individual words 'switch' and 'off'.

• Where everything is fixed

  ➔ Relative clause

  ➔ "Where everything is fixed" modifies the 'zeros' mentioned earlier. 'Where' introduces the relative clause, providing additional information about the place.

• Your music rescues me

  ➔ Simple present tense for habitual action/general truth

  ➔ Although 'rescues' is happening in the moment of listening, the song uses the simple present to convey a sense of ongoing, consistent effect. It's not just *this time* the music rescues, it *always* rescues.

• We're taller than the surface of the sky

  ➔ Comparative adjective

  ➔ "Taller than" is a comparative adjective used to show a difference in height. It implies a feeling of elevation or transcendence.