Young and Beautiful – English Lyrics

• By: Lana Del Rey

Lyrics & Translation

Discover the haunting beauty of Lana Del Rey's "Young and Beautiful," a song that delves into the timeless question of whether love can transcend youth and fading beauty. Explore its rich lyrical tapestry, cinematic sound, and the emotional depth that makes it a quintessential Lana Del Rey masterpiece, offering listeners a poignant reflection on love, loss, and the ephemeral nature of existence.

[English]

(soft music)

♪ I've seen the world, done it all ♪

♪ Had my cake now ♪

♪ Diamonds, brilliant, and Bel Air now ♪

♪ Hot summer nights, mid-July ♪

♪ When you and I were forever wild ♪

♪ The crazy days, city lights ♪

♪ The way you'd play with me like a child ♪

♪ Will you still love me ♪

♪ When I'm no longer young and beautiful ♪

♪ Will you still love me ♪

♪ When I got nothing but my aching soul ♪

♪ I know you will, I know you will, I know that you will ♪

♪ Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful ♪

♪ I've seen the world, lit it up as my stage now ♪

♪ Channeling angels in the new age now ♪

♪ Hot summer days, rock and roll ♪

♪ The way you'd play for me at your show ♪

♪ And all the ways I got to know ♪

♪ Your pretty face and electric soul ♪

♪ Will you still love me ♪

♪ When I'm no longer young and beautiful ♪

♪ Will you still love me ♪

♪ When I got nothing but my aching soul ♪

♪ I know you will, I know you will, I know that you will ♪

♪ Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful ♪

♪ Dear Lord, when I get to heaven ♪

♪ Please, let me bring my man ♪

♪ When he comes, tell me that You'll let him in ♪

♪ Father, tell me if You can ♪

♪ All that grace, all that body ♪

♪ All that face makes me wanna party ♪

♪ He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds ♪

♪ Will you still love me ♪

♪ When I'm no longer young and beautiful ♪

♪ Will you still love me ♪

♪ When I got nothing but my aching soul ♪

♪ I know you will, I know you will, I know that you will ♪

♪ Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful ♪

♪ Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful ♪

♪ Will you still love me when I'm not young and beautiful ♪

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
see /siː/ A1	verb - to perceive with the eyes
world /wɜːrld/ A1	noun - the earth and all its inhabitants
love /lʌv/ A1	verb - to have a deep affection for someone
beautiful /ˈbjuːtɪfəl/ B1	adjective - pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically
ache /eɪk/ B1	verb - to feel a continuous dull pain noun - a continuous dull pain
diamond /ˈdaɪəmənd/ B2	noun - a precious stone, typically colorless and hard
crazy /ˈkreɪzi/ B2	adjective - mentally deranged; insane
wild /waɪld/ B2	adjective - living or growing in the natural environment; not domesticated
soul /soʊl/ B2	noun - the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being
grace /ɡreɪs/ C1	noun - simple elegance or refinement of movement
party /ˈpɑːrti/ B2	verb - to engage in social activities or celebrations
light /laɪt/ A2	noun - the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible verb - to make something start to burn
channel /ˈtʃænəl/ B2	verb - to direct or guide something
electric /ɪˈlɛktrɪk/ B2	adjective - related to electricity
face /feɪs/ A1	noun - the front part of a person's head
man /mæn/ A1	noun - an adult male human

Key Grammar Structures

• Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful

  ➔ Use of 'will' for future tense with 'you' as the subject, forming a question.

  ➔ 'Will' is used to express a future action or question about the future.

• I've seen the world, done it all

  ➔ Present perfect tense used to indicate an experience or an action completed at an unspecified time.

  ➔ 'I've' is a contraction of 'I have', and combined with 'seen', it forms the present perfect tense to describe experience.

• When you and I were forever wild

  ➔ Use of 'were' as the past tense of 'are' in a subjunctive or conditional context.

  ➔ 'Were' indicates past tense, used here with 'I and you' to describe a state in the past.

• When he comes, tell me that You'll let him in

  ➔ Use of the simple present tense 'comes' for a scheduled future event, with a second clause in the imperative and future 'will' + 'let'.

  ➔ 'Comes' is present tense indicating a scheduled event, with the second clause expressing a future intention.

• All that grace, all that body

  ➔ Use of 'that' as a demonstrative pronoun to specify particular nouns with emphasis.

  ➔ 'That' emphasizes the qualities of the nouns it refers to, drawing attention to them.