My Last Breath – English Lyrics

• By: Evanescence
• Album: Fallen

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Hold on to me, love

You know I can't stay long

All I wanted to say was

"I love you and I'm not afraid"

Oh

Can you hear me?

Can you feel me in your arms?

Holding my last breath

Safe inside myself

Are all my thoughts of you

Sweet raptured light?

It ends here tonight

I'll miss the winter

A world of fragile things

Look for me in the white forest

Hiding in a hollow tree (come find me)

I know you hear me

I can taste it in your tears

Holding my last breath

Safe inside myself

Are all my thoughts of you

Sweet raptured light?

It ends here tonight

Closing your eyes to disappear

You pray your dreams will leave you here

But still you wake and know the truth

No one's there

Say goodnight

Don't be afraid

Calling me, calling me

As you fade to black

(Say goodnight)

Holding my last breath

(Don't be afraid)

Safe inside myself

(Calling me-)

Are all my thoughts of you

Sweet raptured light?

It ends here tonight

(Holding my last breath)

(Safe inside myself)

(Are all my thoughts of you)

(Sweet raptured light?)

(It ends here tonight)

(Holding my last breath)

...

Key Grammar Structures

• Hold on to me, love

  ➔ Imperative mood

  ➔ The phrase uses the imperative mood to give a direct command or request, here it's 'hold on'.

• Can you hear me?

  ➔ Interrogative sentence with modal verb

  ➔ This is an interrogative sentence using the modal verb 'can' to ask about ability or possibility.

• I know you hear me

  ➔ Simple present tense for certainty

  ➔ The simple present tense is used here to express certainty or a fact, 'I know'.

• It ends here tonight

  ➔ Present simple with adverb of time

  ➔ The present simple is combined with the adverb of time 'tonight' to indicate a specific time for the action.

• You pray your dreams will leave you here

  ➔ Future in the past with 'would'

  ➔ The use of 'would' here indicates a future action from a past perspective, 'will leave'.

• As you fade to black

  ➔ Present continuous for future arrangement

  ➔ The present continuous tense is used to describe a future arrangement or plan, 'fade to black'.

• Safe inside myself

  ➔ Adjective phrase as a predicate

  ➔ The adjective phrase 'safe inside myself' functions as a predicate, describing the subject's state.

• Sweet raptured light?

  ➔ Appositive phrase

  ➔ The phrase 'sweet raptured light' is an appositive, renaming or explaining the noun it follows.