Nelly Furtado
Ready for Myself lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2024
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 3:04
Plastic dreams and paper houses
The same old, same refrain (la, da, la, da-da-da-da)
Your mouth keeps moving, lips keep talking
But I don't hear a thing (I don't hear a thing)
Just "la-da-da-da, da-da, da-da"
No, I don't hear a thing (la, da, la, da-da-da-da)
Just "la-da-da-da, da-da, da-da"
The same old, same refrain (same old, same refrain)
You slept on it, I woke up (woke up)
Diamond rings and pixie dust
Can't nobody buy my love
I woke up for me
And I got ready for myself, oh
I got ready for myself (na-na-na)
And not for anybody else, oh
I got ready for myself (na-na-na)
And I got ready for myself
Happy hours and broken bodies
Spilling down the street (la, da, la, da-da-da-da)
Traffic noise and screaming highways
But I don't hear a thing (I don't hear a thing)
Just "la-da-da-da, da-da, da-da"
No, I don't hear a thing (la, da, la, da-da-da-da)
Just "la-da-da-da, da-da, da-da"
The same old, same refrain (same old, same refrain)
You slept on it, I woke up (woke up)
Diamond rings and pixie dust
Can't nobody buy my love
I woke up for me
And I got ready for myself, oh
I got ready for myself (na-na-na)
And not for anybody else, oh
I got ready for myself (na-na-na)
And I got ready for myself
You slept on it, I woke up (woke up)
Diamond rings and pixie dust (and I got ready for myself)
Can't nobody buy my love (buy my love)
I woke up for me and I got ready for myself
I'm lookin' good, I'm lookin' good, yeah (same old, same refrain)
It's all for me, me, me, me
Just like I should, just like I should, yeah (same old, same refrain)
It's all for me
And I got ready for myself, oh
I got ready for myself (na-na-na)
And not for anybody else, oh (yeah)
I got ready for myself (the sunshine's on my side)
And I got ready for myself
You slept on it, I woke up (woke up)
Diamond rings and pixie dust (and I got ready for myself)
Can't nobody buy my love (buy my love)
I woke up for me and I got ready for myself
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Key vocabulary
- side
- left or right partA2
- paper
- thin writing materialA1
- talking
- speakingA1
- dreams
- sleep visionsA2
- myself
- me, aloneA2
- plastic
- man-made flexible materialA2
- keep
- continue having; holdA1
- keeps
- stays or continuesA1
- love
- deep careA1
- mouth
- opening for eatingA1
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About this song
Nelly Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose work spans pop, folk, dance, R&B, hip-hop, Latin pop, and worldbeat. She is best known for transforming across genres, beginning with the breakthrough single “I’m Like a Bird” and later hits such as “Promiscuous” and “Maneater.”