One Direction - Drag Me Down (Learn English with Songs)

Lyrics

[Harry:]
I've got fire for a heart
I'm not scared of the dark
You've never seen it look so easy
I got a river for a soul
And baby you're a boat
Baby you're my only reason

[Louis:]
If I didn't have you there would be nothing left
The shell of a man who could never be his best
If I didn't have you, I'd never see the sun
You taught me how to be someone, yeah

[Liam:]
All my life
You stood by me
When no one else was ever behind me
All these lights
They can't blind me
With your love, nobody can drag me down

[Niall:]
All my life
You stood by me
When no one else was ever behind me
All these lights
They can't blind me
With your love, nobody can drag me down

[Chorus:]
Nobody, nobody
Nobody can drag me down
Nobody, nobody
Nobody can drag me down

[Niall:]
I got fire for a heart
I'm not scared of the dark
You've never seen it look so easy
I got a river for a soul
And baby you're a boat
Baby you're my only reason

[Harry:]
If I didn't have you there would be nothing left (nothing left)
The shell of a man who could never be his best (be his best)
If I didn't have you, I'd never see the sun (see the sun)
You taught me how to be someone
Yeah

[Niall:]
All my life
You stood by me
When no one else was ever behind me
All these lights
They can't blind me
With your love, nobody can drag me down

[Chorus:]
Nobody, nobody
Nobody can drag me down
Nobody, nobody
Nobody can drag me

[Liam:]
All my life
You stood by me
When no one else was ever behind me
All these lights
They can't blind me
With your love, nobody can drag me down

[Niall:]
All my life
You stood by me
When no one else was ever behind me
All these lights
They can't blind me
With your love, nobody can drag me down

[Chorus:]
Nobody, nobody
Nobody can drag me down
Nobody, nobody
Nobody can drag me down

Nobody, nobody
Nobody can drag me down
Nobody, nobody
Nobody can drag me down

Difficult Phrases and Words

1. be someone

   1. Context: You taught me how to be someone, yeah

   2. Definition: be or feel important

   3. Additional sentence: By the time I am 30, I want to be someone.

2. blind

   1. Context: All these lights / They can't blind me

   2. Definition: take away sight, vision

   3. Additional sentence: The sun blinded me when I looked at it.

3. drag me down

   1. Context: With your love, nobody can drag me down

   2. Definition: To cause one to feel sad or demoralized

   3. Additional sentence: Your sad stories are really dragging me down.

Discussion Questions

1. What do you think this song is about?

2. Can you relate to anything in this song? Do you have someone in your life who is with you even in the hard times?

3. The singer says “All these lights / They can't blind me.” He probably means all of the flashes from cameras and attention he gets cannot make him forget who he is and who his partner is. Was there a time when you or someone you knew got blinded from all of the attention given to them, and they forgot who they truly were and their friends?

4. What drags you down?