Lorde
Bravado lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2012
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:42
All my life, I've been fighting a war
I can't talk to you or your friends
It's not only you
My heart jumps around when I'm alluded to
This will not do
'Cause I was raised up (ah)
To be admired (ah) to be noticed (ah)
But when you're withdrawn (ah)
It's the closest thing (ah)
To assault when all eyes are on you
This will not do (Ohh)
(Oooh...) Ooh...
Oooh (Oh, oh)...
I'm faking glory
Lick my lips, toss my hair
And turn the smile on
And the story's brand new
But I can take it from here
I'll find my own bravado
It's a switch flipped
It's a pill tipped back
It's a moon eclipse, oh
And I can tell you that
When the lights come on
I'll be ready for this
It's in your bloodstream
A collision of atoms that
Happens before your eyes
It's a marathon run
Or a mountain you scaled
Without thinking of size
I was frightened of every little thing
That I thought was out to get me down
To trip me up and laugh at me, but
I learned not to want the quiet of a room
With no one around to find me out
I want the applause, the approval
The things that make me go, oh
(Oh...) Oh... (Ah...)
It's a switch flipped
It's a pill tipped back
It's a moon eclipse, oh
And I can tell you that
When the lights come on
I'll be ready for this
It's in your bloodstream
A collision of atoms that
Happens before your eyes
It's a marathon run
Or a mountain you scaled
Without thinking of size
I was frightened of every little thing
That I thought was out to get me down
To trip me up and laugh at me, but
I learned not to want the quiet of a room
With no one around to find me out
I want the applause, the approval
The things that make me go, oh
Oh, oh (ah)...
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Key vocabulary
- i've
- I have
- war
- armed fighting between groupsA2
- can't
- cannotB1
- it's
- it isA1
- one
- a single numberA1
- applause
- clapping handsB1
- approval
- agreement; permissionB2
- things
- objects; mattersA1
- switch
- change or replaceB1
- when
- at what timeB1
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About this song
Lorde is a New Zealand singer-songwriter known for electro-pop and pop with a sharp adolescent perspective. She is best known for the 2013 debut Pure Heroine, especially the breakout single “Royals,” and for later albums Melodrama and Solar Power.