Stop For A Minute – English Lyrics

• By: Keane, K'NAAN
• Album: Night Train

Lyrics & Translation

Discover how Keane and K'NAAN blend genres to explore the struggles of mental health and the importance of reflection in 'Stop For A Minute'. This song offers a unique opportunity to learn about expressing complex emotions in English, all while enjoying its catchy blend of pop and rap. Explore introspective lyrics and improve your understanding of metaphorical language.

[English]

Woah oh, woah oh

Woah oh, woah oh

Some days, feel my soul has left my body

Feel I'm floating high above me

Like I'm looking down upon me

Start sinking, every time I get to thinking

It's easier to keep on moving

Never stop to let the truth in

Sometimes I feel like it's all been done

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one

Sometimes I wanna change everything I've ever done

I'm too tired to fight and yet too scared to run

And if I stop for a minute

I think about things I really don't wanna know

And I'm the first to admit it

Without you I'm a liner stranded in an ice floe

Yeah

I feel like a thief who has no faith

Made immortal by the grade

Of the drugs you took that day

Sinking in the pain he's been inflicting

Yet he's feeling like the victim

Just a horoscope's to blame

Sometimes I feel like a little lost child

Sometimes I feel like the chosen one

Sometimes I wanna shout out 'til everything goes quiet

Sometimes I wonder why I was ever born

And if I stop for a minute

I think about things I really don't wanna know

And I'm the first to admit it

Without you I'm a child and so wherever you go

I will follow

One... yeah

And baby you are just beautiful from crown to your cuticles

You held down my two sons, you never frown when duty calls

You know me, I gave you more than you can handle

But you still keep a handle on it, even when I take

Some beautiful and vandal on it

No more females? Well how come my email's got notes on a scandal

It's like Eve with the apple

A priest in the chapel

Overcome by the devil's tackle

I'm still shackling the bad 'til I know

I'm such a hassle every time I let my thoughts go

I get baffled so I hardly pause

I just crossed seas with these gnarly broads

Because it hurts me just to see what I finally lost

So I guess I'm just a fiend

Consumed by the scene

The stage and the screens

Where it's just me and Keane

And if I stop for a minute

I think about things I really don't wanna know

So I guess I'm just a fiend

Consumed by the scene

And I'm the first to admit it

Without you I'm a liner stranded in an ice floe

The stage and the screens

Where it's just me and Keane

Woah oh, woah oh

Woah oh, woah oh

Woah oh, woah oh

Woah oh...

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Key Grammar Structures

• Feel I'm floating high above me

  ➔ Present Continuous Tense

  ➔ "I'm floating" describes an ongoing action happening at the moment of speaking

• It's easier to keep on moving

  ➔ Infinitive of Purpose

  ➔ "to keep" shows the purpose or intention behind the action

• Without you I'm a liner stranded in an ice floe

  ➔ Past Participle as Adjective

  ➔ "stranded" functions as an adjective describing the noun 'liner'

• I feel like a thief who has no faith

  ➔ Relative Clause

  ➔ "who has no faith" modifies 'thief' by adding essential information

• You held down my two sons, you never frown when duty calls

  ➔ When-Clause (Time Clause)

  ➔ "when duty calls" indicates a specific time condition for the main action

• I just crossed seas with these gnarly broads

  ➔ Present Perfect Tense

  ➔ "crossed" (past participle) with implied 'have' shows completed action with present relevance

• Because it hurts me just to see what I finally lost

  ➔ Noun Clause

  ➔ "what I finally lost" functions as the object of the verb 'see'

• Without you I'm a child and so wherever you go I will follow

  ➔ Future Simple Tense

  ➔ "I will follow" expresses a spontaneous future decision or promise