Thunder & Lightning – English Lyrics

• By: Major Lazer, Gent & Jawns
• Album: Peace Is The Mission (Extended)

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Babylon your throne, tumble down and you soon gone down

Thy walls are now shaken by lightning, earthquake and thunder

Babylon your throne, tumble down and you soon gone down

Thy walls are now shaken by lightning, earthquake and thunder

...

Babylon your throne, tumble down and you soon gone down

Thy walls are now shaken by lightning, earthquake and thunder

Babylon your throne, tumble down and you soon gone down

The Lord ain't coming again

It's water, and brimstone, and fire

Wow

Fire burn

Major Lazer, high control tower

Anything test danger

Lightning, thunder, brimstone and fire

Wicked bound to retire

Run away Babylon, run away as I would say

Doo, baba-doo, baba-day

It's tough fi selector

Fling it back fi goh top to the very last drop

...

Babylon your throne, tumble down and you soon gone down

Thy walls are now shaken by lightning, earthquake and thunder

Babylon your throne, tumble down and you soon gone down

The Lord ain't coming again

It's water, and brimstone, and fire

...

Key Grammar Structures

• Babylon your throne, tumble down and you soon gone down

  ➔ Imperative mood

  ➔ The verbs 'tumble' and 'gone' are in the imperative mood, used to give a command or instruction, here expressing a strong wish or prediction.

• Thy walls are now shaken by lightning, earthquake and thunder

  ➔ Present simple passive

  ➔ The sentence uses the present simple passive voice with 'are shaken', indicating an action done to the subject ('walls') by the agents ('lightning, earthquake, thunder').

• The Lord ain't coming again

  ➔ Contraction with negation

  ➔ 'Ain't' is a contraction of 'am not', 'is not', 'are not', or 'has not', used here to negate the action of 'coming'.

• It's water, and brimstone, and fire

  ➔ Ellipsis

  ➔ The sentence uses ellipsis, omitting the verb 'is' before each noun ('water', 'brimstone', 'fire') for stylistic effect.

• Fire burn

  ➔ Imperative mood

  ➔ The verb 'burn' is in the imperative mood, used to give a command or instruction, here emphasizing the action of fire.

• Anything test danger

  ➔ Subject-verb agreement

  ➔ The singular subject 'Anything' agrees with the singular verb 'test', following standard subject-verb agreement rules.

• Wicked bound to retire

  ➔ Future with 'bound to'

  ➔ The phrase 'bound to retire' uses 'bound to' to express a certainty about a future action, similar to 'going to'.

• Run away Babylon, run away as I would say

  ➔ Repetition for emphasis

  ➔ The phrase 'run away' is repeated for emphasis, reinforcing the urgency of the command.