Lorde
David lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2025
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:25
O, dark day
Was I just someone to dominate?
Worthy opponent, flint to my blade, now we're playing with shadows
At the Sunset Tower, you said, "Open your mouth"
I did
And what came spilling out that day was the truth
If I'd had virginity, I would have given that too
Why do we run to the ones we do?
I don't belong to anyone, ooh
O, dark day
Was I just young blood to get on tape?
'Cause you dimed me out when it got hard
Uppercut to the throat, I was off-guard
Pure heroine mistaken for featherweight
But what came spilling out that day was the truth
And once I could sing again, I swore I'd never let
Let myself sing again for you
Oh-whoa-oh
Oh-ah-ooh-whoa-oh
Singing
Said, why do we run to the ones we do?
I don't belong to anyone, ooh
I made you God 'cause it was all that I knew how to do
But I don't belong to anyone
Ooh-ooh-hoo
Am I ever gon' love again?
Am I ever gon' love again?
Am I ever gon' love again?
Am I ever gon' love again?
Tell it to the rock doves
Will you ever feel like a friend?
Sing it to the fountain
Am I ever gon' love again?
Till you understand
Tell it to 'em
Key vocabulary
- shadows
- dark shapes from lightB2
- spilling
- pouring outB2
- young
- not oldA1
- o
- of; belonging to
- worthy
- deserving respectC1
- flint
- hard rock for sparks
- blade
- flat sharp partC1
- we're
- we areA1
- sunset
- evening time sun disappearsA2
- tower
- tall buildingA2
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.