Nine Lives – English Lyrics

• By: Aerosmith

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the raw energy of Aerosmith's "Nine Lives"! This hard-hitting rock track, steeped in the band's history of overcoming challenges, offers a dynamic way to experience English through its powerful lyrics about resilience, new beginnings, and the exhilarating feeling of falling in love. You'll not only enjoy its classic rock sound but also grasp expressive vocabulary and phrases that capture intense emotions and determination.

[English]

Well, well, well

I feel just like I'm fallin' in love

There's a new cool

Some kind of verbooty

That fits me like a velvet glove, yeah

And it's cool

Shuba babu dooba

She's talkin' to me juba to jive

Yeah, the girl's in love

No doubt about it

The moment of truth has arrived

And in a wink

The funk was all around me

And I think

I'm dead in love again

Nine lives, feelin' lucky

Nine lives, live again

Nine lives, it ain't over

Nine lives, live for ten

...

I got good luck

In certain situations

I'm feelin' like I hung the moon

And then at times

I'm so weak from lovin'

I couldn't even carry a tune

Yeah, but now I'm back

Oh yes, I am

I maybe fall apart at the seams

I had a nightmare

Believe me when I tell you

Nobody ever dies in their dreams

I think, I need a stay of execution

In a wink, I'm dead in love again

Nine lives, puss and booty

Nine lives, live again

Nine lives, it ain't over

Nine lives, live for ten

...

Well, well, well

Engine room to bombardier

Is this a dream?

I died and went to heaven

She's enough to make you cry in your beer

How can a good thing seven come 11

Slip into a fare thee well?

And how can one man's little bit o' heaven

Turn into another man's hell?

I think I need a stay of execution

Yeah, I know, I'm dead in love again

Nine lives, hello lucky

Nine lives, live again

Nine lives, it ain't over

Nine lives, live for ten

Nine lives, takin' over

Nine lives, live again

Nine lives, it ain't over

Nine lives, try for ten

Yeah, yeah, yeah

...

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Nine lives, hello lucky

Nine lives, live again

Nine lives, it ain't over

Nine lives, live for ten

...

Key Grammar Structures

• I feel just like I'm fallin' in love

  ➔ Simile with "like" + Present Continuous (informal contraction)

  ➔ "like I'm fallin' in love" compares the speaker's feeling to the experience of falling in love. "Fallin'" is an informal contraction of "falling."

• The moment of truth has arrived

  ➔ Present Perfect tense

  ➔ "has arrived" indicates an action that started in the past and has a present result or relevance, emphasizing that the moment is now here.

• That fits me like a velvet glove

  ➔ Simile (comparison)

  ➔ "like a velvet glove" is a simile, comparing how well something fits to the comfortable and perfect fit of a velvet glove.

• I'm dead in love again

  ➔ Idiomatic expression with intensifier

  ➔ "dead in love" is an idiom meaning completely or deeply in love. "Dead" acts as an intensifier, similar to "madly" or "completely."

• I couldn't even carry a tune

  ➔ Modal verb "couldn't" for past inability + Idiom

  ➔ "couldn't" expresses a lack of ability in the past. "carry a tune" is an idiom meaning to sing in key or correctly.

• I maybe fall apart at the seams

  ➔ "Maybe" as an adverb + Idiomatic phrasal verb

  ➔ "Maybe" indicates possibility. "Fall apart at the seams" is an idiom meaning to become emotionally or physically exhausted and lose control.

• Nobody ever dies in their dreams

  ➔ "Ever" for emphasis in a negative context

  ➔ "Ever" is used here to emphasize the absolute nature of the statement, meaning "at no time" or "under no circumstances."

• She's enough to make you cry in your beer

  ➔ "Enough + to-infinitive" structure + Idiom

  ➔ "enough to make you cry" indicates a sufficient degree or quantity to cause a specific result. "Cry in your beer" is an idiom for lamenting one's misfortune.

• How can a good thing seven come 11 Slip into a fare thee well?

  ➔ Rhetorical question with modal verb "can" + Phrasal verb + Archaic expression

  ➔ "How can...?" forms a rhetorical question expressing disbelief. "Slip into" means to gradually enter a state. "Fare thee well" is an archaic way of saying goodbye.

• Nine lives, feelin' lucky

  ➔ Participial phrase (reduced clause)

  ➔ "feelin' lucky" is a participial phrase, a reduced form of "I am feeling lucky" or "I who am feeling lucky," describing the state of the subject. "Feelin'" is informal for "feeling."