Numb – English Lyrics

• By: Nick Jonas, Angel Haze
• Album: Nick Jonas

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

This is so dumb, this is so bad

Gotta be numb to wish you like that

Lifted me up, letting me fall

Fuck with my head like it's nothing at all

You were my sun, you were my earth

I was your best, and you were my first

Breaking my heart one piece at a time

Well here's a piece of mind, yeah

You don't know what it is you do to me

Yeah, you stole my heart

And all I have is a hole where it used to be

And the hardest part

Now you've got some substitute for me

But he's not the one

You don't know what it is you do to me

Yeah, you leave me numb

Yeah, you leave me numb, numb

Losing my mind, losing control

Swallow my pride, you swallow me whole

Smile on my face to cover my hurt

Spent so much time, but what was that worth?

I'm broken hard, I'm saving it all

Crossing my head, mistaken for love

Nails on my back they don't mean a thing

They ain't yours, they ain't yours

You don't know what it is you do to me

Yeah, you stole my heart

And all I have is a hole where it used to be

And the hardest part

Now you've got some substitute for me

But he's not the one

You don't know what it is you do to me

Yeah, you leave me numb, numb

Yeah, you leave me numb, numb

Numb, yeah, you leave me

I got draft off in a block boxlette

From the matchbox in your rage

You say "we are merely players

Who still act off of this stage

I kept begging you to stay like

"Baby, please, don't leave me"

"Know you don't like fall but what's one more season?"

And I dream on, you gettin' your plot and your scheme on

And I just be here with my theme song

He love me, he love me, no he don't

'Cause you make me feel like the night before Christmas

Love is a crime, and I'm stuck in your prison

Far as you want, baby, I'll go the distance

If you numb and I'm numb

Than what are we feeling?

You don't know what it is you do to me

Yeah, you stole my heart

And all I have is a hole where it used to be

And the hardest part

Now you've got some substitute for me

But he's not the one

You don't know what it is you do to me

Yeah, you leave me numb, numb

Yeah, you leave me numb, numb

...

Yeah, you leave me numb

...

Key Grammar Structures

• Gotta be numb to wish you like that

  ➔ Infinitive of Purpose

  ➔ The infinitive 'to wish' explains the purpose of being numb

• Fuck with my head like it's nothing at all

  ➔ Simile with 'like'

  ➔ 'Like' compares emotional manipulation to trivial actions

• Breaking my heart one piece at a time

  ➔ Phrasal Verb + Adverbial Phrase

  ➔ 'Breaking...heart' is a phrasal verb. 'One piece at a time' modifies how the action occurs

• Now you've got some substitute for me

  ➔ Present Perfect Tense

  ➔ 'Have got' indicates a current state resulting from past actions

• I kept begging you to stay

  ➔ Past Continuous + Gerund

  ➔ 'Kept begging' shows persistent past action. 'Begging' is a gerund after 'kept'

• Love is a crime, and I'm stuck in your prison

  ➔ Metaphorical Language

  ➔ Abstract concepts represented physically: love = crime, relationship = prison

• If you numb and I'm numb, Than what are we feeling?

  ➔ Conditional + Rhetorical Question

  ➔ 'If' introduces hypothetical state. The question challenges emotional emptiness

• You stole my heart

  ➔ Metaphorical Idiom

  ➔ Common idiom meaning 'made me fall in love' (not literal theft)

• Smile on my face to cover my hurt

  ➔ Infinitive of Purpose + Noun Phrase

  ➔ 'To cover' shows purpose of smiling. 'My hurt' nominalizes emotional pain