Take Me to Your Heart

• By: Michael Learns to Rock

Lyrics:

Vocabulary in this song:

Vocabulary	Meanings
hiding /ˈhaɪdɪŋ/ A2	verb - to put something or someone where they cannot be easily seen or found
rain /reɪn/ A1	noun - water falling in drops from vapour in the atmosphere
snow /snoʊ/ A1	noun - atmospheric water vapour frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer
forget /fərˈɡet/ A2	verb - fail to remember
crowded /ˈkraʊdɪd/ B1	adjective - full of people
street /striːt/ A1	noun - a public road in a city or town
heart /hɑːrt/ A1	noun - a hollow muscular organ that pumps the blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation
beat /biːt/ A1	verb - to strike (someone or something) repeatedly and forcefully noun - a main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry
world /wɜːrld/ A1	noun - the earth, together with all of its countries, peoples, and natural features
find /faɪnd/ A1	verb - discover or perceive (something) by chance or unexpectedly
soul /soʊl/ B1	noun - the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal
hand /hænd/ A1	noun - the end part of a person's arm beyond the wrist, including the fingers and thumb
old /oʊld/ A1	adjective - having lived for a long time; no longer young
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - an intense feeling of deep affection verb - feel deep affection for (someone)
wonders /ˈwʌndərz/ B2	noun - a feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beautiful, remarkable, or unfamiliar
true /truː/ A2	adjective - in accordance with fact or reality

Grammar:

• Hiding from the rain and snow

  ➔ Present participle as adjective/gerund

  ➔ The verb "hiding" acts as a gerund, functioning as the subject of the implied clause "I am hiding". It can also be seen as modifying an implied subject like "I", thus acting like an adjective in a reduced relative clause. This shortening is common to convey quick snapshots of action.

• Trying to forget but I won't let go

  ➔ Conjunction "but" and Future Simple Negative "won't"

  ➔ "But" shows a contrast between the speaker's effort to forget and their inability to "let go". "Won't" is a contraction of "will not", indicating a future intention *not* to do something.

• Tell me where do I find someone like you girl

  ➔ Embedded Question with Inversion (Informal)

  ➔ In a formal embedded question, it would be "Tell me where I find someone like you". However, the inverted form "where do I find..." is used here for emphasis and emotion, though grammatically less standard. The correct grammar should be : Tell me where I can find someone like you girl

• Give me your hand before I'm old

  ➔ Imperative Clause with a Time Clause

  ➔ "Give me your hand" is an imperative, a direct command. "Before I'm old" is a time clause indicating the condition for the command; it must happen before the speaker gets old. Using I'm old (present) to represent future state.

• Show me what love is - haven't got a clue

  ➔ Imperative Clause and Present Perfect Negative Short Form

  ➔ "Show me what love is" is another imperative. "Haven't got a clue" is a colloquial short form of "I have not got a clue," using the present perfect to express a lack of knowledge that persists to the present.

• They say nothing lasts forever

  ➔ Indirect Speech/Reported Speech (General Truth)

  ➔ This is indirect speech reporting a general truth. Because it's a general truth, the tense doesn't usually change from the original statement.

• We're only here today

  ➔ Present Simple with 'only' as an adverb of time

  ➔ "We're" is a contraction of "we are", in the present simple tense. "Only" modifies "here", emphasizing the limited time available. The simple present tense indicates the present situation.

• Love is now or never

  ➔ Present Simple with 'or' conjunction expressing alternatives

  ➔ "Love is" utilizes the present simple to express a general truth or fact about love. "Or" presents two mutually exclusive possibilities: love exists now, or it will never exist.

• Don't need too much talking without saying anything

  ➔ Negative Imperative ('Don't') + Gerund ('talking') + Prepositional Phrase ('without saying anything')

  ➔ "Don't need" starts with a negative imperative, advising against something. "Talking" is used as a gerund (a noun formed from a verb), and "without saying anything" is a prepositional phrase that modifies 'talking', clarifying the kind of talking that is undesirable.