Multi-word verbs in music (homework)

call somebody up (phrasal verb)

(especially North American English) to make a phone call to somebody

1) Warm night, can’t sleep

too hurt, too weak, gotta call her up

Love’s train - Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak)

2) He decided to call me up in the middle of the night 

Fall for something (prepositional)

To be tricked into believing something that is not true

1) Don’t know why I’m hoping for what I won’t receive 

Falling for the promise of the emptiness machine 

The emptiness machine- Linkin Park 

2) When she told me that thing, I completely fell for it, without understanding she was telling me a lie.

phrasal verb

1. to disappoint someone by failing to do what you agreed to do or were expected to do

2. Abandoning or betraying someone: e.g. Don't let me down by The Chainsmokers / When I needed you the most, you let me down.

Phrasal verb

1. to remove something, especially without permission: e.g. To take my love away (from CHIHIRO by Billie Eilish) / The waiter took away the plates;
2. In mathematics, it means to subtract one quantity from another;
3. To remove a feeling, condition, or problem: e.g. The medicine took away her headache;
4. To move someone or something from one place to another.

1- "Go on and tear me apart"

To tear someone apart: to make someone feel very unhappy or worried

build up (to something) (prepositional) 

to create / develop 

1. "You just keep on buildin' up your fences, but I've never been so defenceless - Defenceless, Louis Tomlinson

2. She's built up a very successful business.

to continue moving

to argue or complain noisily (informal)

(with something / carry something on) to continue doing something 

(with somebody) to have a sexual relationship with somebody when you should not (old-fashioned)

1. But I don't want to carry on like everything is fine, "Love in the dark" Adele
2. He was shouting and carrying on.
3. Carry on with your work while I'm away.
4. His wife found out he'd been carrying on with another woman.

to cut somebody off (phrasal verb) 

to stop communication

1. But you didn't have to cut me off,
   make out like it never happened and that we were nothing 
   - Somebody that I Used to Know, Gotye
2. The village was in the middle of nowhere. They were cut off from the rest of the world. 

Hold on (intransitive phrasal verb)

not give up 

1) "Thought we were goin' strong, I thought we were holdin' on, aren't we?" -History, One Direction

2) "Hold on and you will graduate" 

to persuade somebody to reduce the price of something (informal)

(knock somebody down / over) to hit somebody and make them fall to the ground

(knock something down) to destroy a building by breaking its walls

1. I managed to knock him down to $400.
2. As hard as you try, no I will never be knocked down, "Turning tables" Adele
3. These old houses are going to be knocked down.

2- "'Cause you light up the path" 

To light up the path: to make something become bright with light or colour

"Sky full of stars", Coldplay

to turn on (prepositional verb)

to activate

1. "But the sun's been quite kind while I wrote this song
   It's for people like you that keep it turned on..."
   -Your Song, Elton John
2. Can you please turn on the lights? It's getting dark in here.