Without Your Love – English Lyrics

• By: Chris Stapleton
• Album: From A Room: Volume 1

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the depths of emotion in Chris Stapleton's "Without Your Love." This song offers a powerful lesson in expressing profound sadness and longing through its poignant lyrics and soulful melody. For language learners, it's a fantastic opportunity to understand how metaphors, like comparing a loveless world to a grey sky, can convey deep feelings, making it a special track for both its emotional honesty and lyrical craftsmanship.

[English]

Yesterday just came and went

And today dealt me another hand of heartaches that I'll play

What we said and what we meant

Two different things, just some words and rings

And time keeps raising the stakes

...

...

Tonight I'll find you in my dreams

And tomorrow I'll wake up and have to feel you fade away

That's the way it goes it seems

Tears filled with pain and they fall like rain

Constant reminders every day

Without your love

The sky is grey

Without your love

I'm waiting on the sun to shine

Without your love

Every hour is the darkest time of the day

And every moment's a crime

And every moment's a crime

...

The more I live without you

Just can't forget about you

Nobody else can set me free

Baby, please come back to me

Baby, please come back to me

Without your love

The sky is grey

Without your love

I'm just waiting on the sun to shine

Without your love

Every hour is the darkest time of the day

And every moment's a crime

Without your love

And every moment's a crime

Without your love

And I'm just doing my time

Without your love

And every moment's a crime

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
yesterday /ˈjɛstərˌdeɪ/ A1	noun - the day before today
today /təˈdeɪ/ A1	noun - the present day
heartaches /ˈhɑːrteɪks/ B2	noun - a feeling of deep emotional distress or pain
play /pleɪ/ A1	verb - to engage in activity for enjoyment and recreation.
said /sed/ A1	verb - past tense of say: to utter words
meant /ment/ B1	verb - past tense of mean: to intend to express or refer to something
time /taɪm/ A1	noun - the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.
dreams /driːmz/ A2	noun - a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep.
wake /weɪk/ A2	verb - to emerge or cause to emerge from a state of sleep
feel /fiːl/ A1	verb - to become aware of through the senses; perceive
fade /feɪd/ B1	verb - gradually disappear
tears /tɪrz/ A1	noun - a drop of clear salty liquid secreted from glands in the eye, typically as a result of strong emotion.
pain /peɪn/ A2	noun - physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury.
reminders /rɪˈmaɪndərz/ B2	noun - a thing that causes someone to remember something.
grey /ɡreɪ/ A1	adjective - of a color intermediate between black and white.
sky /skaɪ/ A1	noun - the expanse of air above the earth.
sun /sʌn/ A1	noun - the star around which the earth orbits.
hour /ˈaʊər/ A1	noun - a period of time equal to 60 minutes.
darkest /ˈdɑːrkɪst/ B1	adjective - having little or no light
crime /kraɪm/ B1	noun - an action or omission that constitutes an offense that may be prosecuted by the state and is punishable by law.
moment's /ˈməʊmənts/ A2	noun - a very brief period of time
live /lɪv/ A1	verb - to have life; be alive.
forget /fərˈɡet/ A2	verb - fail to remember
free /friː/ A2	adjective - not under the control or in the power of another; able to act or move at will.

Key Grammar Structures

• Yesterday just came and went

  ➔ Past Simple

  ➔ The verbs "came" and "went" are in the Past Simple, used for actions that finished in the past.

• And today dealt me another hand of heartaches that I'll play

  ➔ Future Simple (will)

  ➔ The contraction "I'll" = "I will" shows the Future Simple, expressing a decision about the future.

• And time keeps raising the stakes

  ➔ keep + gerund

  ➔ "keeps raising" uses the verb *keep* followed by a gerund (‑ing form) to show a continuous action.

• Tonight I'll find you in my dreams

  ➔ Future Simple (will)

  ➔ "I'll" (= I will) marks the Future Simple, indicating a future intention.

• And tomorrow I'll wake up and have to feel you fade away

  ➔ Future Simple + have to

  ➔ "have to" after "I'll" shows a future obligation: I will be forced to feel you fade away.

• I'm waiting on the sun to shine

  ➔ Present Continuous

  ➔ "I'm waiting" uses the Present Continuous to describe an ongoing action at the moment of speaking.

• Every hour is the darkest time of the day

  ➔ Superlative adjective

  ➔ "darkest" is the superlative form of "dark", used to show the highest degree among all hours.

• The more I live without you

  ➔ Comparative correlative "the more..."

  ➔ "The more..." introduces a comparative clause, showing that as one situation increases, another also increases.

• Nobody else can set me free

  ➔ Modal verb "can" + infinitive

  ➔ "can set" uses the modal verb "can" to express ability or possibility.

• Without your love, the sky is grey

  ➔ Simple Present

  ➔ "is" is the verb in the Simple Present, stating a general fact about the sky.