Song Analysis: Unrequited Love

In the song "stubborn love", written and sang by The Lumineers. Throughout the song, the writers use metaphors and symbols that convey the ideas of holding on and how attached him and his partner got in tough times. The song uses many metaphors and symbols hidden in their lyrics. The metaphors and symbols can convey many different meanings. A good thing about poems or songs that have different meanings can make the poem/song more meaningful or personal to the listener.

This song was written in strophic form. Strophic forms are found in pop music or folk music because all of the verses of the text are sung to the same music. This is also known as chorus form. The way to know that you listening to strophic form is to focus on what’s changing when there’s musical repetition. What you will notice is that the melody would repeat throughout the song but the lyrics would change.

If you had to make a choice with nothing to choose from, how could you choose? Would your choice be the right decision since their is no guideline to your future? Listening to music can relieve stress and even a provide a guideline to the right choices. In the book The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton, the Curtis brothers and other greasers have difficult choices they encounter that relate their life to the song "Give Me Back My Hometown" by Eric Church. The song relates to the actions of the boys, the dreams the greasers have of becoming better, and the need to own the streets in their area.

I think the author of the poem, "leaving the Motel," would approve of the song, "Me and Mrs. Jones," to express his poem in song form. It defines a furtive affair between a man and his lover. In the poem, "Leaving the Motel," the author describes two people are having an affair. The private couple do not want to get caught and ruin their lives outside of the relationship. The author writes, "Too. Keep things straight: don't take --The matches, the wrong keyrings--We've nowhere we could keep a keepsake" This line means the couple is double-check to make sure they have nothing of each others. Snodgrass was implying that there is no room for any mistakes in this relationship. If they had taken something of one another, they would be found out. Their secret would be relived. Now in the song, the composer Billy Paul writes, "We gotta be extra careful -- That do we don't build our

With the awareness of substance abuse as an illness, attention has also been directed to the families and loved ones of those who suffer. Why do families and loved ones stay with someone who is so obviously ill? Why do they tolerate being taken advantage of? One of the first books to address this issue is Codependent No More. According to the author, the issue at hand is codependency, where the individual in the relationship with the addict suffers from an illness as well. This paper is an analysis of the book compared with similar research on the topic.

Fake Love” written by Drake is a great representation of how Macbeth was a fake king and how he obtained his reign of kingship in Scotland was through a disrespectful way of betraying King Duncan and in Drakes song it corresponds to how he was disrespectful and how he betrayed King Duncan. It also represents when the witches were brewing up a new prophecy and they wouldn’t tell Macbeth what was going on, so he also had fake friends in the play too. But in the scene where he killed Duncan Act 1 Scene 7 of “MacBeth” this relates to the song “Fake Love” because it shows that Macbeth has betrayed the king when he killed him in his own home and that it has never been the same after that for Macbeth. A quote from Drake’s lyrics that represents what

In the article, “I Know You Love Me - Now Let Me Die,” the author, Louis M. Profeta, argues that the American society today treats the dying as if their life is meaningless. He furthers his argument by using reminiscence to remind everyone how the elderly used to be treated. There was a woman who only had a few more days until her time was up, “[s]pent with familiar sounds, in a familiar room, with familiar smells that gave her a final chance to summon memories that will help carry her away… that’s how she used to die. We saw our elderly different then” (Profeta). When the elderly are dying, most of them want to be in a place where they are comfortable, so that they can die in peace. They want to remember all the times that made them happy

My story has a meaningful story behind it. The story is deep for me and even for the artist and probably for many other people. Hearing songs like this can inspire you. It inspired me to be thankful for the people in my life. One day they can be here the next they could be gone. You never know what’s going on in their lives.

"Wouldn't It Be Loverly" is a popular song lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, written for the 1956 Broadway play My Fair Lady. The song is sung by flower girl Eliza Doolittle and her street friends. It expresses Eliza's wish for a better life. In addition to pronouncing "lovely" as "loverly", the song lyrics highlight other facets of the Cockney accent that Professor Henry Higgins wants to refine away as part of his social experiment.

Ludacris does a remarkable job of portraying his message about the struggles that some adolescents are faced with. “Runaway Love”, by Ludacris, featuring Mary J. Blige (2007), represents the theme of struggle through hip-hop and rap music. It is about little girls who are “stuck up in the world on their own.” They have to take care of themselves because the people they are around do not care about them. They range from nine to eleven years in age, and their goal in life, at such a young age, is to run away from home. Ludacris is trying to get the listener to realize the struggles that even children have to face because adults are not the only ones who have problems, like most people believe. He is very successful in

“We Found Love” is a popular song produced by Calvin Harris and features singer Rihanna. “We Found Love” reached the number one spot in the top charts in multiple countries in 2012 and the music video became popular very quickly after being filmed in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The music video features a young couple living in an impoverished council estate in West Belfast. Both characters portrayed in the music video are in their twenties and of mixed race, one parent being black and the other being Caucasian. Their relationship is distinguished by domestic violence as the couple is seen yelling, pushing and hurting one another, along with stealing from convenience stores, gambling and abusing drugs and alcohol together.

I chose “Humble and Kind,” by Tim McGraw as my theme song. “Humble and Kind” is a very good song that has very unique lyrics. The song gives advice on how to live. There are many manners in this song that are very important. The song is a parent telling their child how they should live life. It seems that the artist wrote the song on how he wishes he would have acted when he was younger. One of the main messages of this song are that everyone has something in their lives, but you still need to be nice. Some of the lyrics on the song are about the 10 Commandments. Even though we grow up, we still need to remember our manners and how to live life. “Don’t hold a grudge or a chip and here’s why Bitterness keeps you from flying.” This is an example

Do you ever feel more inclined to do something that has been forbidden by others. “Endless Love,”a love ballad released in 1981 as the theme song for the movie Endless Love, climbed the charts to reach number one on Billboard charts. Written by Lionel Richie, it was performed and recorded for Motown by Richie and soul singer Diana Ross as a duet. The lyrics of the song reveal a deep romantic relationship between teenage lovers, without providing their names, details of their situation, or the setting where this takes place. In the movie, Jade and David are the young couple who live in Chicago and fall in love despite very different upbringings and against opposition from family. Much like Romeo and Juliet, their relationship is doomed for failure.

The song “Where Is The Love” by the Black Eyed Peas is a very heartfelt prayer for the healing and suffering in the world and society that we live in. I feel like the song is about exactly what the title is asking. Where is the love? Sometimes we have to stop, look around us and think about the relationships we have with other people. Are our relationships built on foundations of true love, compassion and kindness? Although the songs was originally released in 2003, most of the issues the song focuses on are still relevant today, in 2017. Which really makes me wonder, where IS the love? Surely after 14 years, things would have changed. Hate and war have existed since the beginning of humanity. Crime is an enormous part of our society, in the past and in the present. Imagine a world that is crime free, the perfect utopia. A world where everyone accepts their neighbour for the person they truly are, without racism, without judgement, without oppression. “Where is the love?” recognizes chaos in a broken world, intoxicated with violence and hate.

The song "The message" by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five depicts the struggle of young black adults growing up in society. The struggle to make it out of poverty can be compared to survival of the fittest in a jungle. Only the strong would survive and adapt to the changes to fit in. Trying their best to make a betterment with whatever little society offers. Being a young black African American in the early 1980's was not easy. It was easier to live the fast life and gain fast money by being part of the drug community. Drugs, guns, and money was glamorized and this is what the young adults looked at as a means of getting rich. In the songs, a young man talks about how he is trying hard to hold on to the little bit of sanity he has left in his soul. He talks about the struggle he endures while trying not to get pushed over the edge. He was born an innocent child who's blind to the ways of mind kind. Growing up he faced many challenges and had to fight