Lorde
Man of the Year lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Released
- 2025
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:01
Gliding through on my bike
Gliding through
Like new from my recent ego death
Sirens sing over night
Violent sweet music
You met me at a really strange time in my life
Take my knife and I cut the cord
My babe can't believe I've become someone else
Someone more like myself
Who's gon love me like this?
Who could give me lightness?
Let it flow down to me
Love me like this
Now I'm broken open?
Now I go bout my day
Riding it like a wave
Playing it any way I want
Swish mouthwash, jerk off
Days go by in a haze
Stay up and sleep late
Who's gon love me like this?
Who could give me lightness?
Way he flow down through me
Love me like this
Now I'm broken open
Let's hear it for the man of the year
Hear it for the man of the year
How I hope that I'm remembered, my
Gold chain, my shoulders, my face in the light
I didn't think he'd appear
Let's hear it for the man of the year
Hear it for the man of the year
Hear it for the man of the year
Key vocabulary
- gliding
- moving smoothly
- sirens
- loud warning sounds
- remembered
- kept in mindA1
- didn't
- did notA2
- any
- one or more; not specificA1
- babe
- very young childA1
- believe
- think is trueA1
- bike
- two-wheeled vehicleA1
- cut
- make a sharp woundA1
- death
- end of lifeA2
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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.