You Haven't Told Me Anything – English Lyrics

• By: Keane
• Album: Perfect Symmetry

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

In a pearl grey room one afternoon

In one afternoon what are you gonna do?

I hang on your words but there's nothing new

You take a beautiful thing

Pull off a wing, pull off a wing

The safety pin

It never shines quite as bright again

But you haven't told me anything

That I didn't already know

No you haven't said a single thing

That I didn't already know

Everything I love is stuck in the mud

Stuck in the mud, stuck in a rut

Not a piece in your puzzle or a paper cut

So same time next week

Kiss on the cheek, kiss on the cheek

And say after me

Everything's tied up nice and neat

But you haven't told me anything

That I didn't already know

No you haven't said a single thing

That I didn't already own

I feel for you,

I really do

Nothing adds up like you want it to

No words can mend this fix I'm in

Give me your worst, I won't even blink

Right between the eyes, I won't feel a thing

Because you haven't told me anything

That I didn't already know

No you haven't said a single thing

That I didn't already know

No you haven't told me anything

Key Grammar Structures

• In a pearl grey room one afternoon

  ➔ Prepositional Phrase

  ➔ The phrase 'In a pearl grey room' is a prepositional phrase modifying the noun 'afternoon', providing context about the setting.

• You take a beautiful thing / Pull off a wing, pull off a wing

  ➔ Imperative Mood

  ➔ The verbs 'take' and 'pull' are in the imperative mood, giving direct commands or instructions.

• It never shines quite as bright again

  ➔ Adverbial Clause

  ➔ The phrase 'quite as bright again' acts as an adverbial clause, modifying the verb 'shines' by indicating degree.

• But you haven't told me anything / That I didn't already know

  ➔ Negative Contraction

  ➔ The phrase 'haven't told' is a negative contraction of 'have not told', and 'didn't already know' is a contraction of 'did not already know'.

• Everything I love is stuck in the mud

  ➔ Passive Voice

  ➔ The phrase 'is stuck' is in the passive voice, indicating that the subject 'Everything I love' is being acted upon.

• So same time next week

  ➔ Future Time Reference

  ➔ The phrase 'same time next week' refers to a future time, indicating a planned event.

• Because you haven't told me anything

  ➔ Subordinating Conjunction

  ➔ The word 'Because' is a subordinating conjunction, introducing a dependent clause that explains the reason for the main clause.