Lorde
Swingin Party lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2012
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:43
Bring your own lampshade, somewhere there's a party
Here it's never ending, can't remember when it started
Pass around the lampshade, there'll be plenty enough room in jail
If being wrong's a crime, I'm servin' forever
If being strong's your kind, then I need help here with this feather
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
At the swingin' party down the line
Pound the prairie pavement, losin' proposition
Quittin' school and goin' to work and never goin' fishing
Water all around, I never learned how to swim now
If being wrong's a crime, I'm servin' forever
If being strong's your kind, then I need help here with this feather
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
At the swingin' party down the line
At the swingin' party down the line
Bring your own lampshade, somewhere there's a party
Here it's never ending, can't remember when it started
Pass around the lampshade, there'll be plenty enough room in jail
If being wrong's a crime, I'm servin' forever
If being strong is what you want, then I need help here with this feather
If being afraid is a crime, we hang side by side
At the swingin' party down the line
At the swingin' party down the line
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Key vocabulary
- around
- in a circular areaA1
- forever
- for all timeB1
- hang
- stay suspendedB1
- plenty
- more than enoughB1
- pass
- move byA2
- there'll
- there will
- jail
- place for prisonersB2
- i'm
- I amC2
- servin
- serving (slang)
- strong's
- strength or powerA1
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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.