Song Analysis: Hotel Ceiling

-by Christina anu, written by: Neil murray, and Warumpi Band in 1986, My Island Home, sydeny, 2000.

The lyrics of a song often have no substance and a clear example would be any Britney Spears song. The lyrics of “All Falls Down” are very deep. They talk about the ideal situation in life; We should go to school, get a good job and make money to buy what we want. The lyrics then ask, what if this doesn’t happen? This is prevalent in the first verse. “She has no idea what she doing in college. That major that she majoring, it don’t make no money.” The song questions these everyday values because we focus so much on these things, we don’t realize there are more important things in life such as life itself. Even Kanye admits that he spent money at Jacob’s Jewellery store before he thought about a house. “I went to Jacob with

One of the most important lines from the song is, “I can’t change, even if I tired, even if I wanted to”. It is a meaningful

“Chandelier” was one of the most popular songs of the year 2014. It debuted on an album titled “1000 forms of fear” by the song artist Sia. Chandelier was so popular because it was perceived as a summer party anthem. It was one that had a very catchy tune, and it had a lot of notability from it’s music video. Therefore, this song was constantly played on the radio and was heard by millions of people. However, this song wasn’t meant to be a party anthem. The lyrics and mood of the song take a dark turn, because in actuality the song is talking about someone who is using partying to cope with their troubles. Unfortunately, most people weren’t able to notice what was really going on because they did not heed to the lyrics that they were singing.

We see how these concepts norms, values, structure and social facts, and agency give an understanding to lyrics in a song for society and how the concepts tell the story in the song “Wrong way” by Sublime. Many important factors came from these concepts we have to see the role society (her father, brothers, and narrative) played in Annie’s life and what influenced her choices in life. Symbolic interaction theory effectively explains the narrative in this song because of the different views Annie and him see with her life, that her reality of her life is a good life, and that he does not see it as a good way of life but as a bad road ahead.

The musician evokes fear in the audience. In the first stanza, he says, "this town rips the bones from your back, it's a death trap/It's a suicide rap" (4-5). Springsteen successfully induces fear in the audience by using the word "suicide." He stresses that the town is a scary and dangerous place. Also, the word suicide reflects that he is unhappy with his life. He also uses the word "trap" to create a feeling of not being able to escape the dangers that surround him. On the other hand, the musician evokes sympathy in the audience. In the second stanza, the musician says, "Cause baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider but I gotta know how it feels" (10). Springsteen effectively evokes the feeling of sympathy among the audience by using the word "scared." He shows that he is afraid of missing out and not being able to experience the feeling of love. Using the word "lonely" also shows that he feels empty if he cannot experience affection from

I have chosen a song entitled “Penthouse Cloud” sung by the band “The Internet” which was released in 2015. Based on the lyrics, there are a lot of significant linguistic foregrounding included in the song using the techniques of parallelism and deviation.

Dream on” by Aerosmith connects to Santiago and his recurring dream in the beginning of the story starting on Page 6. Santiago deals with a recurring dream and he does not understand why he is having it. This dream occurs every time Santiago sleeps under a sycamore tree that grows out of the ruins of a church. In this dream a child tells Santiago to go after a treasure located by the Egyptian pyramids. Santiago is confused by the message of the dream and goes to a gypsy woman to try and understand the dream. She says that he should go to Egypt in pursuit of the treasure. This leads to Santiago meeting a magical man who turns out to be the King of Salem. He says that going to Egypt is Santiago’s personal legend and he should set off for his journey tomorrow. This journey leads to Santiago arriving in Tangier and a robber taking all of the money Santiago brought in his journey towards the Egyptian pyramids. This leaves Santiago by himself as he now has to find a way to push through adversity and get to his destination. Dream on is about following your dreams and aspirations in life by following your journey. “Dream until your dreams come true” is a line highlighted in the song that captures the purpose of following your dreams. It is about your want to be someone and to accomplish what you are supposed to in life. Santiago’s purpose is to follow his personal legend by following the good omens throughout the story and find his way to the Egyptian Pyramids. Santiago has to

The lyrical significance of “Lift Me Up” overshadows all other aspects of the song, providing a difficult analysis of all other

The lyrical significance of “Lift Me Up” overshadows all other aspects of the song, providing a

Dream on by Aerosmith connects to Santiago and his recurring dream in the beginning of the story starting on Page 6. Santiago deals with a recurring dream and he does not understand why he is having it. This dream occurs every time Santiago sleeps under a sycamore tree that grows out of the ruins of a church. In this dream a child tells Santiago to go after a treasure located by the Egyptian pyramids. Santiago is confused by the message of the dream and goes to a gypsy woman to try and understand the dream. She says that he should go to Egypt in pursuit of the treasure. This leads to Santiago meeting a magical man who turns out to be the King of Salem. He says that going to Egypt is Santiago’s personal legend and he should set off for his journey tomorrow. This journey leads to Santiago arriving in Tangier and a robber taking all of the money Santiago brought in his journey towards the Egyptian pyramids. This leaves Santiago by himself as he now has to find a way to push through adversity and get to his destination. Dream on is about following your dreams and aspirations in life by following your journey. “Dream until your dreams come true” is a line highlighted in the song that captures the purpose of following your dreams. It is about your want to be someone and to accomplish what you are supposed to in life. Santiago’s purpose is to follow his personal legend by following the good omens throughout the story and find his way to the Egyptian Pyramids. Santiago has to

    Paris by the Chainsmokers is a song that reflects on the happy side of a relationship that is rarely seen in break-ups. The song is essentially the writer remembering a relationship with fondness. It tells the tale of two young lovers on their own and in love who eventually break apart. It also touches on happy memories like the lyrics “We were staying in paris,/ to get away from your parents” (Chainsmokers, 1-2). By highlighting the highs instead of lows, it shows the listener that they should not be sad about their loss but happy that they ever got to experience the joy and happiness that most relationships provide. Almost no relationships end with happiness but this song shows that it is possible to think happily of a relationship that has ended. This song also uses higher pitched, electronic music to

“This town will never change, People come and go, it’s all the same” These are lyrics from the song Idle Town by Conan Gray. This song is Conan’s biggest single. Conan is also a student who likes songwriting as a hobby and hopes to become a singer/songwriter in the future. This song perfectly resembles my 8th grade year, so I made a thesis statement to answer why it resembles my year perfectly: Idle Town by Conan Gray resembles my 8th grade year perfectly because it talks about the town we live in, how he doesn’t fit in, and because he wrote it about his Senior year. To start, the first reason why this song resembles my 8th grade year was how he talks about the town he lives in.

This said, lyrics are a huge part of whether or not I like a song (if it has lyrics, that is. Don't get me wrong; compositions without words can have just as much impact as one with them, by making you feel using instruments). Hotel Books is spoken word, and their lyrics are outstanding. The guy's voice is awful and the music itself mediocre, but I listen to them every day. It's pretty much just poetry to background music, but the words resonate so well. I have a laundry list of favorite lines, but one of them is "She said 'I watched my house catch fire, I didn't feel a thing'. Well darling, congratulations, I wish I had that sort of inner peace".  That line really gets me thinking- she seems fine with her house and all the memories inside burning up, and he wishes he could feel that way. He finds himself to be too sentimental and stuck in the past. It is poetic and an experience to listen

The translation of the saying has modernized from its origin, when slaves used to mutter to their owners “sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me” into today’s newer version, “sticks and stones may break my bones AND words can hurt me.”