Wrong – English Lyrics

• By: Loving Caliber

Lyrics & Translation

Explore the nuances of modern English heartbreak through Loving Caliber’s 'Wrong.' This song is a fantastic tool for learners to practice emotive vocabulary, conditional structures, and conversational phrasing used to describe complex relationship dynamics.

[English]

Morning comes and I messed up again

'Cause we doing everything wrong

I don't know and I don't understand

When we fight somehow we always make up

Threatened by a break up

Is this how we gonna fade it out?

'Cause we are the way we are

We'll never change

Yes we've been here before

'Cause we scream, fight, hate, cry

No one's ever backing down

Yeah, we doin' everything wrong

Yeah, we ruin everything (everything)

When we push, slam, throw, damn

We're hurting but we're just too scared

So, we doin' everything wrong

Yeah, we ruin everything, everything

Stop

You and I so different yet alike

We are always on the edge

When we love our hearts are open wide

But when we hate it's like a big explosion shaking our devotion

Are we ever gonna figure out

How to be without defeating ourselves?

It's going on too long

'Cause we scream, fight, hate, cry

No one's ever backing down

Yeah, we doin' everything wrong

Yeah, we ruin everything (everything)

When we push, slam, throw, damn

We're hurting but we're just too scared

So, we doin' everything wrong

Yeah, we ruin everything, everything

Starting over everytime again and again

And no one's ever backing down

Yeah, we doin' everything wrong

Yeah, we ruin everything

Yeah, we doin' everything, everything wrong

'Cause we scream, fight, hate, cry

No one's ever backing down

Yeah, we doin' everything wrong

Yeah, we ruin everything (everything)

When we push, slam, throw, damn

We're hurting but we're just too scared

So, we doin' everything wrong

Yeah, we ruin everything (everything)

'Cause we scream, fight, hate, cry

No one's ever backing down

Yeah, we doin' everything wrong

Yeah, we ruin everything (everything)

When we push, slam, throw, damn

We're hurting but we're just too scared

So, we doin' everything wrong

Yeah, we ruin everything, everything

Stop

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Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
messed /mɛst/ B2	verb - To spoil or make a mistake.
threatened /ˈθrɛtənd/ B2	verb - To be vulnerable to a specific danger or harm.
fade /feɪd/ B2	verb - To gradually disappear or lose strength.
scream /skriːm/ B1	verb - To utter a loud, sharp cry.
ruin /ˈruːɪn/ B2	verb - To destroy or damage something.
slam /slæm/ B2	verb - To shut or hit with great force.
scared /skɛərd/ A2	adjective - Feeling fear or worry.
alike /əˈlaɪk/ B1	adjective - Similar in nature or appearance.
explosion /ɪkˈsploʊʒən/ B2	noun - A violent release of energy.
devotion /dɪˈvoʊʃən/ C1	noun - Love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person.
defeating /dɪˈfiːtɪŋ/ B2	verb - To win victory over someone in a battle or contest.
hurting /ˈhɜːrtɪŋ/ A2	verb - To cause pain or injury to someone.

Key Grammar Structures

• Cause we doing everything wrong

  ➔ Present Continuous for habitual action (informal)

  ➔ Here, "doing" is used informally to describe a repetitive or ongoing negative cycle, rather than an action happening strictly at this moment.

• Yes we've been here before

  ➔ Present Perfect

  ➔ The phrase "have been" indicates an experience that happened in the past and is still relevant to the speaker's current situation.

• No one's ever backing down

  ➔ Present Continuous with adverb of frequency "ever"

  ➔ Using "ever" with "backing down" emphasizes that neither person is at any point willing to give in or surrender.

• We're hurting but we're just too scared

  ➔ Adjective + infinitive structure (too + adjective + to-infinitive)

  ➔ The structure "too scared (to do something)" expresses an excessive state that prevents an action from happening.

• You and I so different yet alike

  ➔ Conjunctions for contrast and similarity

  ➔ "Yet" functions here as a coordinating conjunction similar to "but," introducing a surprising contrast.

• Are we ever gonna figure out

  ➔ Future intention with "be going to" (informal: "gonna")

  ➔ "Gonna" is a contraction of "going to," commonly used in casual speech to express future plans or questions about future possibility.

• How to be without defeating ourselves?

  ➔ Wh- word + infinitive phrase

  ➔ The "how to be" construction acts as a noun phrase, meaning the method or way of existing without self-destruction.

• Starting over everytime again and again

  ➔ Gerund phrase (Starting over)

  ➔ A gerund ("starting") is used as the head of a phrase to describe the recurring action of beginning anew.