Flowers
by Miley Cyrus
The grammar to take away is can't be sold: a passive carrying a modal, two structures stacked, and English does it so casually that learners often cannot unpick it. Say the active version to yourself and the shape becomes obvious. Beside it sits cherry-red, a compound adjective hyphenated out of a noun and a colour — English builds these freely and they are far easier to guess than to produce. The nouns stay domestic and physical: flowers, roses, sand, nails, hand, home. There is a tidy pair in we were good and we were right, the same frame used twice. A2 is right, the delivery unhurried and each syllable audible.
How to study this song
The card for “Flowers” is built from 41 study entries at A2-: 21 English words, 6 adjectives and 14 verb forms. The glossary is the place to begin — dream, flowers and hand are the song’s keywords. This one leans on its verbs: 14 distinct forms against 6 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level the goal is recognition: hear a word, place it, keep going.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| EN | ES | IT | FR | PT | NL | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dream | sueño | sogno | rêve | sonho |
What this song teaches you
Level · A2-
- Vocabulary words
- 21
- Adjectives
- 6
- Word combos
- 11
- Expressions
- 10
- Verb forms
- 15
- Quiz questions
- 35
Background
About the song
“Flowers” is the self-empowerment anthem by Miley Cyrus, released in January 2023 as the lead single from her album “Endless Summer Vacation”.
Over a smooth, disco-tinged groove, it flips the idea of heartbreak on its head: instead of mourning a lost love, the narrator declares that she can love herself better than anyone else could.
That confident, independent message struck an immediate global chord. Cyrus wrote it with Gregory “Aldae” Hein and Michael Pollack, and the production is by Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson.
Did you know?
The song spent eight weeks at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped charts around the world, and it won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 2024 — Miley Cyrus’s first Grammy. It also set Spotify records, becoming the fastest song ever to reach a billion streams on the platform.
Charts & streaming
“Flowers” was the most-streamed song of 2023 and one of the best-selling singles of the year worldwide, breaking multiple streaming records along the way. It stands as a career-defining hit for Miley Cyrus and one of the biggest songs of the decade so far.
In Britain it was number one for ten consecutive weeks, the billion Spotify streams took 112 days, and the same night brought a second Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance. It is certified 7× platinum in the United States and diamond in Canada, France and Poland.