Bruno Mars
“Grenade”, 2010

Easy come, easy go, that's just how you live, oh
Take, take, take it all, but you never give
Should have known you was trouble from the first kiss
Had your eyes wide open
Why were they open? (Ooh)

Gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash
You tossed it in the trash, you did
To give me all your love is all I ever ask
'Cause what you don't understand is

I'd catch a grenade for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)
Throw my hand on a blade for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)
I'd jump in front of a train for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)
You know I'd do anything for ya (yeah, yeah, yeah)

▫️easy come, easy go - “легко пришло - легко ушло”, “как пришло, так и ушло”
▫️to toss in the trash - выбросить в мусор(-ку)
▫️to catch a grenade - поймать / схватить гранату
▫️to throw a hand on a blade - подставиться под нож / клинок

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Evanescence
“Bring Me to Life”, 2003

How can you see into my eyes, like open doors
Leading you down into my core
Where I've become so numb
Without a soul
My spirit's sleeping somewhere cold
Until you find it there and lead it back home

Wake me up inside (save me)
Call my name and save me from the dark (wake me up)
Bid my blood to run (I can't wake up)
Before I come undone (save me)
Save me from the nothing I've become

▫️numb - беспомощный, онемевший, бесчувственный
▫️bid my blood to run - расшевели меня, заставь кровь бежать по венам
▫️to come undone - сойти с ума

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System of a Down
“Chop Suey!”, 2001

Wake up
Grab a brush and put a little make-up
Hide the scars to fade away the shake-up
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go create another fable

You wanted to
Grab a brush and put a little makeup
You wanted to
Hide the scars to fade away the shake-up
You wanted to
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
You wanted to

I don't think you trust
In... My... Self-righteous suicide
I... Cry... When angels deserve to die

▪️chop suey - острое рагу по-китайски (+ подделка, фальшивка)
▪️ to fade away - угасать, утихать, постепенно исчезать
▪️ a shake-up - встряска (+ резкие изменения)
▪️ a fable - басня, небылица (по сути - ложь)
▪️ self-righteous - лицемерный, самооправданный, эгоистичный

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AWOLNATION
“Sail”, 2011

SAIL!
Maybe I should cry for help
Maybe I should kill myself
Blame it on my ADD baby

Maybe I'm a different breed
Maybe I'm not listening
So blame it on my ADD baby
SAIL!

▫️sail! - убирайся, проваливай!
Дословно - “плыви” (to sail - плавать, ходить под парусом) ⛵️
▫️to blame - винить, обвинять
▫️ADD - attention deficit disorder = СДВ - синдром дефицита внимания
▫️a breed - порода

Неофициальный клип в ютубе даже более популярен, можно ознакомиться 🙂

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Nirvana
"Something In The Way", 1991

"Underneath the bridge
Tarp has sprung a leak
And the animals I've trapped
Have all become my pets
And I'm living off of grass
And the drippings from my ceiling
It's okay to eat fish
Cause they don't have any feelings

Something in the way
Mmm-mmm"

▪️a tarp - брезент
▪️to spring leak - давать течь, протекать
▪️to trap - заманивать в западню, ловить
▪️to live off - жить за счет чего-то, сидеть на шее (+ проживать на чем-то, питаться)
▪️drippings from ceiling - капли с потолка

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Imagine Dragons
"Whatever It Takes", 2017

"Falling too fast to prepare for this
Tripping in the world could be dangerous
Everybody circling, it's vulturous
Negative, nepotist

Everybody waiting for the fall of man
Everybody praying for the end of times
Everybody hoping they could be the one
I was born to run, I was born for this

Whip, whip
Run me like a racehorse
Pull me like a ripcord
Break me down and build me up
I wanna be the slip, slip
Word upon your lip, lip
Letter that you rip, rip
Break me down and build me up

Whatever it takes
'Cause I love the adrenaline in my veins
I do whatever it takes
'Cause I love how it feels when I break the chains
Whatever it takes"

▫️vulturous - жадный, хищный
▫️nepotist - тот, кто творит непотизм aka "кумовство" 🙂
▫️whip - кнут, удар хлыстом
▫️a ripcord - вытяжной трос (кольцо парашюта)
▫️a slip - оплошность, ошибка
▫️to rip - рвать
▫️chains - цепи, оковы ⛓

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Slipknot
"Wait and Bleed", 1999

"I've felt the hate rise up in me
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves
I wander out where you can't see
Inside my shell I wait and bleed

I wipe it off the tile, the light is brighter this time
Everything is 3-D blasphemy
My eyes are red and gold, the hair is standing straight up
This is not the way I pictured me
I can't control my shakes!
How the hell did I get here?
Something about this so very wrong
I have to laugh out loud, I wish I didn't like this
Is it a dream or a memory?"

▪️to kneel down - преклонять колени, вставать на колени
▪️leaves - листва
▪️to wander out - блуждать, бродить
▪️a shell - раковина, скорлупа 🐚
▪️to bleed - истекать кровью
▪️to wipe off - стирать, вытирать, сметать
▪️a tile - кафель, плитка
▪️a blasphemy - богохульство, кощунство
▪️shakes - озноб, дрожь (to shake - трясти/сь, дрожать)

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P!nk
“Just Give Me a Reason”, 2012

“Right from the start
You were a thief, you stole my heart
And I, your willing victim
I let you see the parts of me, that weren't all that pretty
And with every touch you fixed them
Now you've been talking in your sleep oh oh
Things you never say to me oh oh
Tell me that you've had enough
Of our love, our love

Just give me a reason, just a little bit's enough
Just a second we're not broken just bent, and we can learn to love again
It's in the stars, it's been written in the scars on our hearts
We're not broken just bent, and we can learn to love again”

▫️a thief - вор
▫️a victim - жертва
▫️bent - согнуты, надломаны (to bend - гнуть)
▫️a scar - шрам

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Leonard Cohen
"Hallelujah", 1984

"Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah"

▪️a faith - вера
▪️a proof - доказательство
▪️to bath - купаться, принимать ванну
▪️to overthrow - ошеломлять, уничтожать
▪️to tie - привязывать, связывать
▪️a throne - трон (власть)
▪️to draw - выводить, вычерчивать, рисовать

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Eminem
"The Real Slim Shady", 2000

"Feminist women love Eminem
Chicka-chicka-chicka Slim Shady, I'm sick of him
Look at him, walkin' around, grabbin' his you-know-what
Flippin' the you-know-who, yeah but he's so cute though
Yeah, I probably got a couple of screws up in my head loose
But no worse, than what's goin' on in your parents bedrooms
Sometimes I wanna get on TV and just let loose, but can't
But it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose

My bum is on your lips (x2)
And if I'm lucky you might just give it a little kiss"

▫️sick of - надоел, достал
▫️to grab - хватать
▫️get screws up in the head loose - плохо с головой (a screw - гайка / loose - разболтанный)
▫️to let loose - оторваться
▫️to hump a dead moose - трахать мервого лося 😱 (to hump - трахать, чаще всего - изображать это, как собаки с мягкими игрушками / a moose - лось 🦌)

PS. Tom Green - канадский комик, автор ролика "Tom Green Humps A Dead Moose" и клипа "The Bum Bum Song". Youtube помнит 🙂
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