Learn English with Songs – Sorry by Justin Bieber

Hello ABA Friends!

Put your dancing shoes on, it’s another “Learn English with Songs” lesson and our teacher today is Justin Bieber!

His album Purpose sold 522,000 copies in its first week of release in the US alone. Today we will be looking at the song Sorry from the album.

Are you ready?

• Watch the video (and dance!)

• Read the lyrics

• Understand the vocabulary

Soon you’ll be able to sing along to the radio!

Lyrics

You gotta go and get angry at all of my honesty
You know I try but I don’t do too well with apologies
I hope I don’t run out of time, can someone call a referee?
Cause I just need one more shot at forgiveness

I know you know that I made those mistakes maybe once or twice
By once or twice I mean maybe a couple of hundred times
So let me, oh let me redeem, oh redeem myself tonight
Cause I just need one more shot at second chances

Is it too late now to say sorry?
Cause I’m missing more than just your body
Is it too late now to say sorry?
Yeah I know that I let you down
Is it too late to say that I’m sorry now?

I’m sorry, yeah
Sorry, yeah
Sorry
Yeah I know that I let you down
Is it too late to say sorry now?

I’ll take every single piece of the blame if you want me to
But you know that there is no innocent one in this game for two
I’ll go, I’ll go and then you go, you go out and spill the truth
Can we both say the words and forget this?

Is it too late now to say sorry?
Cause I’m missing more than just your body
Is it too late now to say sorry?
Yeah I know that I let you down
Is it too late to say that I’m sorry now?

I’m not just trying to get you back on me
Cause I’m missing more than just your body
Is it too late now to say sorry?
Yeah I know that I let you down
Is it too late to say sorry now?

I’m sorry, yeah
Sorry, oh
Sorry
Yeah I know that I let you down
Is it too late to say sorry now?
I’m sorry, yeah
Sorry, oh
Sorry
Yeah I know that I let you down
Is it too late to say sorry now?

Vocabulary

An apology – when you say or write that you are sorry about something

To run out of (time)– to have no (time) left

A referee – a person who makes sure that players (for example, football players or boxers) act according to the rules of a game or sport

One more shot – an expression that means one more chance, one more opportunity

forgiveness – the act of forgiving someone or something

To redeem oneself – to do something to make people have a good opinion of you after behaving badly

To let someone down – to make someone unhappy or displeased by not being as good as expected; to disappoint someone

The blame – the responsibility for something bad that has happened

Innocent – not guilty of a crime or another bad act

Music Video