Kelly Clarkson
Tightrope lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2015
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:33
I'm on the tightrope, you've got your reasons
When did it get so hard to breathe?
Hot in the spotlight, I'm feelin' so tired
Your hands are burned from holdin' me
And maybe you and I will fall in time
Eventually
Maybe we'll both die trying
But I can't bring myself to leave
'Cause I've looked
And I ain't seen nothin' like you
The way you light up every room tonight
So easily
And I have moved mountains, babe
Just to stumble into your good grace
And I, I still can't compete
You're on the tightrope, I've got my reasons
How did we get so tangled?
You turn, I stay straight, I bend as you break
We're so messed up, but I know
That you and I will fall in time, eventually
Or maybe we'll both die trying
'Cause I ain't seen nothin' like you
The way you light up every room tonight
So easily
And I have moved mountains, babe
Just to stumble into your good grace
And I, I still can't compete
Oh, you and I will fall in time eventually
Or maybe we'll both die trying
'Cause I ain't seen nothin' like you
The way you light up every room tonight
So easily
And I have moved mountains, babe
Just to stumble into your good grace
And I, I still can't compete
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Key vocabulary
- tightrope
- rope walked carefully
- babe
- very young childA1
- stumble
- trip and almost fallC1
- good
- pleasant; not badA1
- grace
- elegance and smoothnessC1
- compete
- try to winA2
- you're
- you areA1
- tangled
- knotted; mixed up
- every
- each oneA1
- fall
- go downA1
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About this song
Kelly Clarkson is an American singer known for pop, country, and R&B. She rose to fame as the first winner of American Idol in 2002 and is recognized for her versatile, powerhouse vocals and a string of major hits such as “Since U Been Gone” and “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You).”