The Book – English Lyrics

• By: Glum Aleks

Lyrics & Translation

Dive into the atmospheric world of Glum Aleks with 'The Book.' This song is a perfect tool for learners to explore emotive English vocabulary and the use of metaphor to describe life experiences and memory.

[English]

[groaning]

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[music]

I found a [music] book in silent dust. A

spine that whispered break your trust.

Its pages breathe like living [music]

skin inviting me to look within. No

spells of fire. No sacred righteous

truths that cut away the night. And

every line I dared to trace unraveled

something in my mind.

It didn't teach me how to.

It taught me how I've been a fool.

The book rewrote the [music] shame of

me. It showed the cost of what we see.

No charms, no [music] tricks, no

midnight flame, just every flaw. I tried

to tame it. Turn my gaze on what I hide.

A mirror [music] sharpened from inside.

I opened it to learn the key.

It opened me. [music]

It [music] spoke of love that bends the

spine of choices carved in crooked

lines. It [music] showed how longing

chains the will. How silence teaches

deeper. Still [music] each chapter held

a quiet wound, a lesson, neither late

nor soon. [music] And as [singing] I

read, I understood why some truth never

do us good.

It was a magic meant to shine.

It was the shadow CAST BY MINE.

The book rewrote [music] the shape of

me. It showed the cost of what we see.

No charms, no tricks, no midnight flame,

just every fly. I tried to tame it.

[music] Turn my gaze on what I hide. A

mirror sharpened from inside. I opened

it to learn the key.

Get open. [music]

[music]

If wisdom cuts, then let it stay. If

sorrow speaks, I'll hear its way. I

close the book, but still it writes

across my choices [music] days and

night.

[music]

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The book we wrote for me. It didn't ask,

it didn't flee. It took illusion [music]

from my name and left me clear are not

the same. No spell was cast. No fate was

just truth distilled into a creed.

[music] I saw this words to finally see.

It's all through me.

[music]

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
dust /dʌst/ B1	noun - fine particles of matter
spine /spaɪn/ B1	noun - backbone; the binding of a book
whispered /ˈwɪspərd/ B1	verb - to speak softly
breathe /briːð/ A2	verb - to inhale and exhale
trace /treɪs/ B1	verb - to follow a path or line
unraveled /ʌnˈrævəld/ B2	verb - to become undone or disentangled
fool /fuːl/ A2	noun - a person lacking good sense or judgment
shame /ʃeɪm/ B1	noun - a painful feeling of humiliation or distress
flaw /flɔː/ B1	noun - a mark, blemish, or imperfection
tame /teɪm/ B1	verb - to subdue or bring under control
mirror /ˈmɪrər/ A2	noun - a reflective surface
sharpened /ˈʃɑːrpənd/ B1	verb - to make or become sharp
wisdom /ˈwɪzdəm/ B2	noun - the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment
sorrow /ˈsɒroʊ/ B1	noun - a feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune
illusion /ɪˈljuːʒən/ B2	noun - a false idea or belief
distilled /dɪˈstɪld/ C1	verb - to extract the essential meaning or most important aspects of

Key Grammar Structures

• Its pages breathe like living skin inviting me to look within.

  ➔ present participle clause (gerund phrase) of purpose

  ➔ The word "inviting" is a present participle that forms a clause giving the purpose of the breathing pages.

• It didn't teach me how to.

  ➔ negative past simple with an infinitive clause ellipsis

  ➔ The structure "didn't teach me how to" drops the verb after "to" (e.g., "how to read"), a common ellipsis in English.

• It taught me how I've been a fool.

  ➔ present perfect continuous (have/has been + past participle) to express a past state up to now

  ➔ "I've been" combines "have" + "been" (past participle of *be*) to form the present perfect continuous.

• It showed the cost of what we see.

  ➔ embedded question (what we see) as a noun clause

  ➔ The phrase "what we see" functions as a noun clause, the object of "the cost of".

• If wisdom cuts, then let it stay.

  ➔ first conditional (present simple + imperative)

  ➔ "If wisdom cuts" uses the present simple in the "if"‑clause; "let it stay" is an imperative giving a directive.

• I opened it to learn the key.

  ➔ infinitive of purpose (to + verb)

  ➔ "to learn" expresses why "I opened it"; the infinitive introduces the purpose.

• It was a magic meant to shine.

  ➔ passive infinitive (meant to + verb)

  ➔ "meant to shine" is a passive infinitive meaning "was intended to shine".

• The book rewrote the shape of me.

  ➔ prepositional phrase with pronoun object (of me)

  ➔ The phrase "of me" is a prepositional phrase where "me" is the object of the preposition "of".

• I close the book, but still it writes across my choices days and night.

  ➔ contrastive conjunction "but" with present simple verb "writes"

  ➔ The conjunction "but" links two contrasting ideas; "writes" stays in the present simple to show a habitual action.