Seize The Day – English Lyrics

• By: Avenged Sevenfold
• Album: City of Evil

Lyrics & Translation

Explore Avenged Sevenfold's emotional depth with "Seize The Day," a powerful ballad that teaches the importance of cherishing every moment. Discover how its poignant lyrics and moving music video deliver a timeless message about love, loss, and living life to the fullest.

[English]

Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost

It's empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over

I see my vision burn, I feel my memories fade with time

But I'm too young to worry

These streets we travel on will undergo our same lost past

I found you here, now please just stay for a while

I can move on with you around

I hand you my mortal life, but will it be forever?

will you take a journey tonight follow me past the wall of death

We both know the day will come, but I don't want to leave you

I see my vision burn, I feel my memories fade with time

But I'm too young to worry

(a melody, a memory, or just one picture)

Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost

It's empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over

Newborn life replacing all of us, changing this fable we live in

No longer needed here so where do we go?

Will you take a journey tonight, follow me past the walls of death?

But girl, what if there is no eternal life?

I see my vision burn, I feel my memories fade with time

But I'm too young to worry

(a melody, a memory, or just one picture)

Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost

Its empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over

Trials in life, questions of us existing here

Don't wanna die alone without you here

Please tell me what we have is real

...

So, what if I never hold you, yeah, or kiss your lips again? Whooooah

...

So I never want to leave you and the memories of us to see

I beg don't leave me

Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost

Its empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over

Trials in life, questions of us existing here

Don't wanna die alone without you here

Please tell me what we have is real

...

(Silence you lost me, no chance for one more day)

...

(Silence you lost me, no chance for one more day)

I stand here alone

Falling away from you, no chance to get back home

I stand here alone

Falling away from you, no chance to get back home

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
seize /siːz/ B2	verb - to take or grasp suddenly
regret /rɪˈɡrɛt/ B1	verb - to feel sad or sorry about something
empty /ˈɛmpti/ A2	adjective - containing nothing
cold /koʊld/ A1	adjective - low in temperature
ache /eɪk/ A2	verb - to feel a steady pain
vision /ˈvɪʒən/ B1	noun - the ability to see or imagine something
burn /bɜːrn/ A2	verb - to be damaged by fire
fade /feɪd/ B1	verb - to become less strong or clear
memory /ˈmɛməri/ A2	noun - the ability to remember things
journey /ˈdʒɜːrni/ A2	noun - a long trip
eternal /ɪˈtɜːrnl/ B2	adjective - lasting forever
exist /ɪɡˈzɪst/ A2	verb - to be present or real
trial /ˈtraɪəl/ B1	noun - a test of something
mortal /ˈmɔːrtəl/ B2	adjective - subject to death
fable /ˈfeɪbəl/ B1	noun - a short story with a moral

Key Grammar Structures

• Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost

  ➔ Present participle as an adverbial

  ➔ The word "regretting" is a present participle used adverbially to describe the manner or circumstance of dying, meaning "die while regretting". It functions similarly to an adverbial clause.

• It's empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over

  ➔ Too + quantity/adjective + to-infinitive structure

  ➔ The phrase "too many people to ache over" uses the "too + quantity/adjective + to-infinitive" structure, indicating an excessive number of people that makes the action of aching over them difficult or overwhelming.

• I see my vision burn, I feel my memories fade with time

  ➔ Verbs of perception + object + base form of verb

  ➔ The verbs "see" and "feel" are verbs of perception, followed by an object ("my vision", "my memories") and then the base form of another verb ("burn", "fade") to describe an action being perceived.

• But I'm too young to worry

  ➔ Too + adjective + to-infinitive structure

  ➔ The phrase "too young to worry" uses the "too + adjective + to-infinitive" structure, indicating that the subject is excessively young, making the act of worrying inappropriate or unnecessary.

• These streets we travel on will undergo our same lost past

  ➔ Omission of relative pronoun in a defining relative clause

  ➔ The clause "we travel on" is a defining relative clause modifying "streets". The relative pronoun "that" or "which" is omitted, a common practice in informal English when the pronoun is the object of the verb or a preposition.

• We both know the day will come, but I don't want to leave you

  ➔ Verb + to-infinitive (e.g., "want to + verb")

  ➔ The verb "want" is followed by the "to-infinitive" form of another verb, "to leave", to express a desire or intention.

• Newborn life replacing all of us, changing this fable we live in

  ➔ Participial phrases modifying a noun

  ➔ "replacing all of us" and "changing this fable we live in" are participial phrases (starting with present participles "replacing" and "changing") that modify "Newborn life", describing its actions or characteristics.

• But girl, what if there is no eternal life?

  ➔ "What if...?" for hypothetical questions

  ➔ The phrase "What if there is no eternal life?" is used to introduce a hypothetical question, exploring the consequences or possibilities of a particular situation.

• Please tell me what we have is real

  ➔ Noun clause as the object of a verb

  ➔ The clause "what we have is real" functions as a noun clause, serving as the direct object of the verb "tell". It acts as a statement or question embedded within the main sentence.

• So, what if I never hold you, yeah, or kiss your lips again?

  ➔ "What if + Simple Present" for hypothetical future/present

  ➔ This uses the "What if + simple present" structure to pose a hypothetical question about a future or present possibility, questioning the implications if that situation were to occur.