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  • How long will I love you

  • As long as stars are above you

  • And longer if I can

  • How long will I need you

  • As long as the seasons need to

  • Follow their plan

  • How long will I be with you

  • As long as the sea is bound to

  • Our ship on the sound

  • How long will I want you

  • As long as you want me to

  • And longer by far

  • How long will I hold you

  • As long as your father told you

  • As long as you can

  • How long will I give to you

  • As long as I live through you

  • For ever long you say

  • How long will I love you

  • As long as stars are above you

  • And longer if I may

  • How long will I love you

  • As long as stars are above you

How long will I love you

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Ellie Goulding - How Long Will I Love You

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    VoiceTube posted on 2014/01/12
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Keywords

sound

US /saʊnd/

UK /saʊnd/

  • adjective
  • Sensible, dependable and reliable
  • Unbroken or undisturbed, as of sleep
  • Firm or solid in structure
  • Sane; not mentally ill
  • Clearly reasoned; involving sense, good judgment
  • noun
  • Unique quality that characterizes a style of music
  • Waves traveling in air or water that can be heard
  • verb
  • To seem or appear to be, from what was said
  • To say in a clear deliberate manner
  • To make a noise, e.g. to ring a bell
give

US /ɡɪv/

UK /ɡɪv/

  • other
  • To administer something, such as medicine
  • To allow someone to have something
  • To produce offspring
  • To cause someone to experience something
  • To provide instructions or guidance
  • To donate something, especially money
  • To provide as an instance
  • To hold or host
  • To perform an action
  • To present something voluntarily to someone
  • To provide something needed or wanted
  • To utter or emit something
  • noun
  • Degree of flexibility in something, a material
  • verb
  • To hand over or present something to someone
  • To cause someone to have or experience something
  • other
  • To collapse or break
  • To collapse or break under pressure
hold

US /hold/

UK /həʊld/

  • verb
  • To agree to keep something for someone
  • To have the capacity to support/contain something
  • To control an area and protect it from attack
  • To not allow someone to leave a place
  • To cause an event to happen at a place or time
  • To use hands or arms to carry or keep something
  • To have a specific quality or property
  • To keep an image, belief or feeling in your mind
  • To have or own something
  • To wait before being able to talk on the phone
  • To limit the movement of someone in a sport
  • noun
  • Section of a ship or plane used for storing things
  • Influence or power held over someone
  • Place of support for hands or feet when climbing
long

US /lɔŋ, lɑŋ/

UK /lɒŋ/

  • noun
  • Person's name
  • other
  • To have a strong desire or yearning.
  • adjective
  • Large distance from one end to the other
  • Having many parts, e.g. a book with many chapters
  • verb
  • To have a strong desire for something or someone
  • adverb
  • For a large amount of time
live

US /liv/

UK /lɪv/

  • verb
  • To be alive
  • To experience a particular type of life
  • To make your home in a house or town
  • adjective
  • Being broadcast as events happen, not recorded
  • Carrying electric current; able to give a shock
  • Glowing because burning; hot
  • Not yet killed (for food)
  • adverb
  • (Music, drama) as it is performed
love

US /lʌv/

UK /lʌv/

  • noun
  • Person's name
  • A very strong feeling of affection
  • The person you care very deeply about
  • Strong, deep emotional and sexual attraction
  • verb
  • To care for and like someone very strongly, deeply
  • To like doing very much; enjoy greatly
  • To feel a strong emotional and romantic attraction
tell

US /tɛl/

UK /tel/

  • verb
  • To (strongly) advise a person to do something
  • To be able to guess
  • To order or instruct someone to do something.
  • To say or communicate information to someone
  • To be able to distinguish or recognize.
  • To inform, but without speaking; indicate
  • To have a negative effect on someone
  • To order someone to do something; command
  • To recognize something based on certain signs
  • To report something to an authority
  • To explain something or teach someone something
plan

US /plæn/

UK /plæn/

  • noun
  • Drawing of how something should be done or made
  • Detailed proposal, set of actions to do something
  • verb
  • To intend to do something in the future
  • To make a detail set of actions to do something
follow

US /ˈfɑlo/

UK /ˈfɔləu/

  • verb
  • To come after someone; be guided by someone
  • To support someone, e.g. singer or comedian
  • To be the logical result of something
  • To happen after something else happens
  • To believe a set of values or a moral teacher
  • To understand something happening or being said
  • other
  • Come after in time or order.
  • To come next in sequence or time.
  • other
  • Go or come after (a person or thing) in the same direction.
  • Act according to (a wish or order).
  • Understand (a line of reasoning or a set of instructions).
ship

US /ʃɪp/

UK /ʃɪp/

  • noun
  • Large boat
  • verb
  • To transport goods by boat, truck or plane