The Speaker's Point Of View In The Song Stayin Alive

In the fourth chapter of Parker Palmer’s Let Your Life Speak entitled All the Way Down, Palmer is addressing and discussing clinical depression and the discoveries he made during this time. Disconnection and mystery are both explicitly covered to accurately explain the run and feeling of depression for the individuals that have never experienced the disorder. One of the main ideas that is addressed is that one of the only ways to get out of depression is to use knowledge of the heart and the choices that lead to wholeness are expressive of personal truth rather than calculated and intended to achieve a goal.

One of my favorite songs is Live Like You Were Dying by Tim McGraw, and it is a song about living life to the fullest. People should always live life to the fullest because you never know when it will be taken away from you. By singing “When it sank in That this might really be the real end How's it hit you When you get that kind of news? Man, what'd you do?” (McGraw), Tim McGraw is showing his listeners that sometimes life is taken away from you earlier than expected. Later in the song McGraw says “I was finally the husband That most of the time I wasn't And I became a friend a friend would like to have” (McGraw). These three lines show the listeners that in a person’s last days, they realize what is most important in life. McGraw’s lyrics

The first verse of the song shares the troubled relationship between the father and son, when it said, “he came to the world in the usual way, but there were planes to catch and bills to pay. He learned to walk while I was away.” This verse explained that he was away on some type of career to make money for the family, and provide for the son financially. However, he wasn’t able to spend quality time with him, and missed important milestones in his life, such as taking his first steps. His career obviously came before his son and family, and he made excuses for that. Then it finishes with the chorus, which says, “when you

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.

“If I Die Young” by the Band Perry has poetic caliber because of its allusions, figurative language, and rhyme scheme.

The dictionary meaning is: continue to live or exist, esp. in spite of danger or hardship and that’s important because Sugar and her mother are trying to live and stay existing because they don’t have much to live so they have to try to keep surviving. When I think of this word I think of food, water and the wilderness.

The Fray is an Alternative Pop Band, which generally does songs that have a sadder tone. One of their hit songs, “How to Save a Life”, is what I have analyzed. The songs overall mood is saddening, but it’s message is very strong. That message is you can’t always help people who aren’t helping themselves. It’s basically about someone trying to help a friend, but he doesn’t exactly know how. Many literary and hidden words and phrases are found scattered across the piece.

The song centres around the warfare associated with change “battle outside And it is ragin’”. The imagery used reflects the society the song was written in and the ideals of a society that was focused solely on war during that era (the 1960s). It also displays the different attitudes that generations have towards change and the warfare that can occur from this. Authoritarian figures “Senators, Congressman...Mothers and fathers” are used to demonstrate the conflict between the older and younger generations. “Don’t stand in the doorway Don’t block up the hall” shows how the older generations, may try to prevent

ext, the band is called The Fray. The Fray was formed in 2002 when two high schoolers, Joe King and Isaac Slade, bumped into each other at a music store in Denver, Colorado. King and Slade usually just played in Slades garage until Ben Wysock, David Welsh, and Caleb Slade joined and completed their band. They decided to start a band because of their passion for music. They also wanted to help people who come to music to escape reality. "How to Save a Life" was written because of Isaac Slades experience as a teenager. While he was a teen he had a mentor who was struggling with addiction and drugs. Due to that he wanted to let this song have more of a lullaby tone to it so it is peaceful to listen to but also has meaning to it.

It is a sin for anyone to destroy, in a blink of an eye, what they have been working on for months or even years. Therefore, one should always face the hardships with a strong will, hold their head up high when facing an upcoming storm, because that is the only way they can survive the war that is life. Right towards the end of the song, there is an extremely empowering line that says “this road never looked so lonely, this house doesn’t burn down slowly to ashes” which stands as a reminder that right when the challenge becomes harder, one should never forget what they are fighting for and simply give up. The amount of determination reflected in this line is the reason why I listen to this song whenever I feel defeated by the obstacles. It comes to spark the flame of determination in my heart when I consider backing

The symbolism in this song is that life is hard for other members of the society. This song regards a man trying/ resolving to alter his ways before starting to change the world. This

‘No matter gay, straight, or bi, I was born to survive’. In the words of lady GaGa herself it doesn’t matter who you marry, what your gender is or what’s you race you just need to accept others and yourself. Lady GaGa’s song ‘Born this Way’ informs others about self-acceptance in her new album ‘Born this way’. This song is about people abusing others and reflecting badly on them self because of their race, gender and choice in who they marry. Lady GaGa expresses her thoughts about people’s issues to say it doesn’t matter who you are because you were born that way.

This essay will analyse the piece What’s Going On by Marvin Gaye, based on it’s melodic, harmonic and rhythmic content. It will also consider the form, structure, instrumentation and use of dynamics in the piece, while providing a contextualisation of the piece to convey where it sits in a broader context, historically, socially and politically. In addition, how it relates to its genre, what influenced the piece and what has the piece influenced will be explored. The creative processes involved in the recording and production of the piece will also be examined.

The song consist of four stanzas: three that tell stories of people's lives, and the last a riddle which brings comedy into the song. In the first stanza we are introduced to Cyrus Jones. "Cyrus Jones 1810 to 1913,/ made his great grandchildren believe you could live to 100 and 3/ a 100 and 3, is forever when you're just a little kid so/ Cyrus Jones lived forever. " The second stanza allows us to meet Muriel Stonewall. She lived 51 years and during those years in her life, was forced to send her sons off in World War II, and then bury them. By the time we are introduced to Mickey Carson, the melody and voice in the song are increased, which intensifies the listener's curiosity of what the narrator is talking about. Mickey Carson rode his bike and longed to be like Mr. Vertigo on the flying trapeze, he died at 62.

The Fray's hit song, 'How To Save a Life,' tells a story of a mentor, also a friend, who is trying to 'save a life' of a troubled youth. The story starts off with the teenager and this friend sitting down to have a talk about what is wrong in the teen?s life. The second line reads, 'he walks, you say sit down it's just a talk,' this showing anger and fear of what might be brought up in conversation, so he tries to run away from the problem. Although neither individual wants to have the talk, they both respect each other enough to be polite, 'He smiles politely back at you/