Vultures – English Lyrics
Lyrics & Translation
[English]
(eerie music)
♪ The vultures came and picked and pulled apart ♪
♪ Trapped in a vessel going nowhere ♪
♪ Left me to rot in that bed for another ♪
♪ Bound to the anchor, still sinking deeper ♪
♪ Say the dead won't speak, but my sanity begs to differ ♪
♪ Clouds pass covering the sun in my dreams ♪
♪ My soul reaches out to God, but he can't reciprocate ♪
♪ The days and nights we spent, they're haunting me ♪
♪ This coma is a prison ♪
♪ This might be the last time I will ever speak ♪
♪ Dreaming is sinking, waking is rising ♪
♪ Waking is rising, waking is rising ♪
♪ Through these eyes, I've watched you take ♪
♪ The spark that fights to illuminate ♪
♪ You trade her soul for your sickening needs ♪
♪ You are a cancer I will eradicate ♪
♪ It makes me sick ♪
♪ To watch you prey upon the innocent ♪
♪ But I can't stand by and simply be a witness ♪
♪ With each fist that splits ♪
♪ Open my skin ♪
♪ My legs fall as I fail to defend ♪
♪ Tell me how you still can fall asleep ♪
♪ When she hasn't shown her face in weeks ♪
♪ Tried to believe that she could outrun these demons ♪
♪ It's inhuman to be so cold ♪
♪ The vultures came and picked and pulled apart ♪
♪ The hell that's in her head ♪
♪ Don't you see yourself for who you really are ♪
♪ The vultures came and picked and pulled apart ♪
♪ The hell that's in her head ♪
♪ From wishing you were dead ♪
♪ The bloodstained pavement is the only thing my eyes ♪
♪ Succeed at seeing ♪
♪ I'm slipping quick into unconsciousness ♪
♪ But I meant it when I said it, you're so pathetic ♪
♪ Worthless ♪
♪ Despicable waste ♪
♪ And when she's screaming out for help ♪
♪ Could you hear a thing she said ♪
(intense post-hardcore music)
♪ The catalyst to keep her up at night ♪
♪ Don't you see yourself for who you really are ♪
♪ The vultures came and picked and pulled apart ♪
♪ The hell that's in her head ♪
♪ From wishing you were dead ♪
♪ Though she may forgive ♪
♪ The day won't come that she'll forget ♪
♪ But you are the reason that she stays awake at night ♪
♪ Though she may forgive ♪
♪ The day won't come that she'll forget ♪
♪ So when I call your name to seal your fate ♪
♪ You better listen ♪
♪ You better listen ♪
♪ Kicked in the teeth ♪
♪ The vultures circle around me and I see ♪
♪ No hope, no peace ♪
♪ I fade to black with the dark surrounding ♪
♪ No hope, no peace ♪
♪ I fade to black, I fade to black ♪
(intense post-hardcore music fades)
Key Vocabulary
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vulture /ˈvʌltʃər/ B2 |
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soul /soʊl/ B1 |
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dream /driːm/ B1 |
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sick /sɪk/ B1 |
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dark /dɑrk/ A2 |
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bloodstained /ˈblʌdsteɪnd/ B2 |
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cancer /ˈkænsər/ B2 |
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prison /ˈprɪzən/ B1 |
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haunting /ˈhɔːntɪŋ/ B2 |
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innocent /ˈɪnəsənt/ A2 |
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spark /spɑrk/ B1 |
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anchor /ˈæŋkər/ B2 |
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fade /feɪd/ B1 |
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scream /skriːm/ B1 |
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Key Grammar Structures
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The vultures came and picked and pulled apart
➔ Simple past tense
➔ The phrase uses the simple past tense to describe actions that have already happened.
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This coma is a prison
➔ Present simple tense
➔ The present simple tense is used to express a general truth or a state of being.
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Tell me how you still can fall asleep
➔ Indirect question
➔ This line contains an indirect question, which does not follow the typical question structure.
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Though she may forgive
➔ Modal verb 'may'
➔ The modal verb 'may' is used to express possibility.
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You are a cancer I will eradicate
➔ Future simple tense
➔ The future simple tense is used to express an action that will happen in the future.
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The bloodstained pavement is the only thing my eyes succeed at seeing
➔ Present continuous tense
➔ The present continuous tense is used to describe an action that is currently ongoing.
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I fade to black with the dark surrounding
➔ Present simple tense
➔ The present simple tense is used to express a habitual action or a state of being.
