Social/Political Message Analysis Two: Love for a Child- Jason Mraz

There's a picture on my kitchen wall
Looks like Jesus and his friends involved
There's a party getting started in the yard
There's a couple getting steamy in the car parked in the drive
Was I too young to see this with my eyes?

By the pool last night, apparently
The chemicals weren't mixed properly
You hit your head and then forgot your name
And then you woke up at the bottom by the drain
And now your altitude and memory's a shame

What about taking this empty cup and filling it up
With a little bit more of innocence
I haven't had enough, it's probably because when you're young
It's okay to be easily ignored
I like to believe it was all about love for a child

And when the house was left in shambles
Who was there to handle all the broken bits of glass
Was it mom who put my dad out on his ass or the other way around
Well I'm far too old to care about that now

What about taking this empty cup and filling it up
With a little bit more of innocenceI haven't had enough,
it's probably because when you're young
It's okay to be easily ignored
I'd like to believe it was all about love for a child

It's kinda nice to work the floor since the divorce
I've been enjoying both my Christmases and my birthday cakes
And taking drugs and making love at far too young an age
And they never check to see my grades
What a fool I'd be to start complaining now

What about taking this empty cup and filling it up
With a little bit more of innocenceI haven't had enough,
it's probably because when you're young
It's okay to be easily ignored
I'd love to believe it's all about love for a child

I chose this song because it has a very strong social message. The overall message of this song is that when you can not give your child the attention it needs, buying them things doesn't make anything better. This song shows how a typical divorced family operates. This is show through the quote "It's kinda nice to work the floor since the divorce. I've been enjoying both my Christmases and my birthday cakes. And taking drugs and making love at far too young an age and they never check to see my grades. what a fool I'd be to start complaining now" This shows how not only do the presents make the parents feel less guilty for not having time for their child but also how the child feels compelled to accept things the way they are. Also it shows that when your parents are more worried about appeasing their own guilt by letting their children do as they please they do not realize they harm they are really doing. This is something that happens very often in our society.

Social/Political Message Analysis One: Freedom-K'naan

When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag

When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back

Born to a throne, stronger than Rome
But Violent prone, poor people zone
But it’s my home, all I have known
Where I got grown, streets we would roam

But out of the darkness,
I came the farthest
Among the hardest survival

Learn from these streets, it can be bleak
Except no defeat, surrender retreat

So we struggling, fighting to eat and
We wondering when we’ll be free
So we patiently wait, for that fateful day
It’s not far away, so for now we say

When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back

So many wars, settling scores
Bringing us promises, leaving us poor
I heard them say, love is the way
Love is the answer, that’s what they say,
But look how they treat us, make us believers
We fight their battles, then they deceive us
Try to control us, they couldn’t hold us
Cause we just move forward like
Buffalo Soldiers

But we struggling, fighting to eat
And we wondering, when we’ll be free
So we patiently wait, for that faithful day
It’s not far away, but for now we say

When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back

When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back

(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)
And everybody will be singing it(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)
And you and I will be singing it(Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhhh Ohhhh)
And we all will be singing it(Ohhh Ohh Ohh Ohh)

When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back

When I get older, I will be stronger
They’ll call me freedom, just like a Waving Flag
And then it goes back, and then it goes back
And then it goes back

When I get older, when I get older
I will be stronger, just like a Waving Flag
Just like a Waving Flag, just like a Waving flag
Flag, flag, Just like a Waving Flag.

The song "Wavin' Flag has a political and social message. One line of the song that makes it political is "We fight their battles, then they deceive us, Try to control us, they couldn't hold us, Cause we just move forward like Buffalo Soldiers." This shows how their governments control them and make them fight battles they do not believe in but they rise up and overcome these obstacles and think and do for themselves. It is social because it is also about how much some people struggle and how they are "fighting to eat and we wondering when we'll be free,So we patiently wait, for that fateful day" this shows how even though they have to struggle and life is not easy they still have faith and hope which, in our society, is very admirable.

Imagery Analysis One: Spoon- Underdog

Picture yourself in a living room,
your pipe and slippers set out for you,
I know you think that it ain't too far,
But I,

I hear the call of a lifetime ring,
felt the need to get up for it.
oh, cut out the middle man
get free from the middle man.

You got no time for the messenger,
got no regard for the thing that you don't understand.
You got no fear of The Underdog,
that's why you will not survive.

I wanna forget how convention fits,
hmmm, but can I get out from under it?
Well I cut it out of me.

It can't all be wedding cake,
it can't all be boiled away,
I tried but I can't let go of it,
can't let go of it, uh huh.

You shouldn't talk to the water boy,
and there's so much you can learn but you don't want to know,
You will not back up an inch ever,
That's why you will not survive.

The thing that I tell you now,
it may not go over well.
Oh it may not be Photo Op,
in the way that I spell it out.

But you won't hear from the messenger.
Don't want to know 'bout the thing that you don't understand.
You got no fear of The Underdog,
that's why you will not survive.

The song I chose to analyze this song because it is a very good example of not only imagery but it also fits my theme of society. In this song it talks about not fearing what the underdog is capable of and how the underestimate what some people are capable of. this is show through the lyric "You got no fear of the underdog, that's why you will not survive." This shows that the singer believes that by not seeing the underdog as a true competitor you are in turn guaranteeing your own demise. This is also true of general society, because they do not see the little guy as a threat and do not prepare themselves for when they rise up and fight back for their own rights, ie: riots, unions, etc. One example of Imagery is when tin the song it says"Picture yourself in the living room, your pipe and slippers set out for you" this is showing us that the singer wants us to imagine being in a living room with our slippers there and a cozy scene.

The Wedding Singer

The Wedding Singer: China Girl

After watching the move The Wedding Singer starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, the song I chose to analyze is David Bowie’s China Girl. David Bowie was an artist and an innovator. He and his style of music defined the 80’s as a generation. This movie was centered on defining the 80’s and this was done mostly through the music played. Like the artist, this song is very well known. It represents the 80’s and its sound is a part of the pop culture of that time.
This song was played during the scene where Glen, Julia, Robbie, and Holly are in a night club on a double date. Where the song is played is important to the mood and is necessary for portraying it correctly. It not only adds to the mood but without it, the scene would not be portrayed as effectively.
The song plays and Julia says how much she loves David Bowie and the song. Robbie agrees. This shows that either Robbie is trying to show her that he likes the same things as her, or that he really does like the song as well or both. Julia and Holly sing along to it and Glen, who is Julia’s fiancé, tells her to stop singing. This not only shows how controlling he is, but also how he does not respect her. It also shows that he cares more about what the other people at the night club think about him then he cares about Julia. The reason that Glen does not like the song is because it is about a woman being in control in a relationship and how he is dependant on her. This is showed when in the song it says “ I’m a mess without my little China Girl.” This is the exact opposite of Glen and Julia’s relationship because Glen tells her what to do and is not dependant on her at all. Julia and Holly sing the lyrics “When I get excited, my little China Girl says oh baby just you shut your mouth.” Glen interjects their laughter and tells Julia to shut her mouth, showing the difference in the two relationships. This whole conversation is a lead up to after Julia leaves the table to go to the bathroom and in the meantime Robbie finds out that Glen has been cheating on Julia and intends to continue to do so even after they are married. This all is so important to the plot line. With the wrong song, not all of the message would have been conveyed. Without the song the viewer would not get the extent of how much of a jerk Glen really is.
Music is something that can make or break a movie. The movie The Wedding Singer is one movie that, without the correct music placement, would not have been as good. Because it was a movie portraying an era in total, music was very important. Also, the 80’s was a decade when music changed forever, and without the most important songs played in the movie, it would have been a less valid portrayal.

Found Poem

Some of us, were hardly ever here.
And in the end,
Everyone ends up alone.
The world keeps testing me.
You do what they tell you to.
If this is what it takes to be
who I am, who I'm not, who I want to be.
I'll walk, I've got to leave.
Our situation is down to the wire.
I hope you can forgive me,
In the end everyone ends up alone.

Repetition of Sounds Analysis Two: John Mayer Daughters

"Daughters"

I know a girl she puts the color inside of my world
She's just like a maze, where all of the walls all continually change
And I've done all I can to stand on the the steps, with my heart in my hands
Now I started to think maybe it's got nothinging to do with me

Fathers be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too

Oh you see that skin, it's the same she's been standing in
Since the day, she saw him walking away
Now she's left cleaning up the mess he made

So fathers be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughter too

Oh
Boys you can break find out how much they can take
Boys will be strong, boys soldier on but
Boys would be gone without warmth of a womans good good heart

On behalf of every man looking out for every girl
You are the god and the weight of the world

So fathers be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers be good to your daughters too
So mothers be good to your daughters too
So mothers be good to your daughters too

The song "Daughters" by John Mayer has many examples of Repetition of sounds. (yellow: assonance, Pink: alliteration) This song relates to my theme of society because it is about how parents are responsible for taking care of their children. It says that fathers and mothers have a responsibility to be good their daughters because they grow up to be mothers and take care of the children of the next generation. without people taking care of their children our society would be ruined.

Repetition of Sounds Analysis One: Cranberries- Zombie

"Zombie"
Another head hangs lowly,
Child is slowly taken.
And the violence caused such silence,
Who are we mistaken?
But you see, it's not me, it's not my family.

In your head,
in your head they are fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.

In your head, in your head, they are crying...
In your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey.
What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, dou, dou, dou, dou, dou...

Another mother's breakin',
Heart is taking over.
When the vi'lence causes silence,
We must be mistaken.

It's the same old theme since nineteen-sixteen.
In your head, in your head they're still fighting,
With their tanks and their bombs,
And their bombs and their guns.
In your head, in your head, they are dying... I

n your head, in your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie,
Hey, hey, hey.
What's in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, oh, oh, oh,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, oh, ya, ya-a...


The song I chose for to analyze for repetition is the song "Zombie" by the Cranberries. There is examples of both alliteration and assonance in this song. (alliteration: pink, Assonance:Light blue) This song relates to my theme of society in alternative music because this song is about a society in turmoil because of war. In the song it says "with there bombs and their guns...they are fighting." this is an example of assonance and it shows that there is fighting in their society and their nation, but when it says "We must be mistake" this shows that the singer is against their society. They oppose society doing such things to innocent people.

Repetition Ananlysis #2: Maria Mena You're the Only One

Well I saw you with your hands above your head
Spinning around, trying not to look down
But you did, and you fell, hard on the ground
Then you stumbled around for a good ten minutes
And I said I'd never seen anyone look so dumb before
And you laughed and said I still know how to turn you on though

You're the only one who
Drags me kicking and screaming through fast dreams
You're the only one who
Knows exactly what I mean

And I probably forgot to tell you this
Like that time when I forgot to tell you about the scar
Remember how uncomfortable that made you feel?
See you're not what I expected
But you're the only one who knows how to handle me
And you're such a great kisser and I know that you agree

You're the only one who
Drags me kicking and screaming through fast dreams
You're the only one who
Knows exactly what I mean

I hope you can forgive me for that time
When I put my hand between your legs
And said it was small
Cuz its really not at all
I guess there's just a part of me that likes to bring you down
Just to keep you around
Cuz the day that you realize how amazing you are
You're gonna leave me

You're the only one who
Holds my hair back when I'm drunk and get sick
You're the only one who
Knows exactly what I mean

You're the only one who
Drags me kicking and screaming through fast dreams
You're the only one who
Knows exactly what I mean
Exactly what I mean

Well I saw you with your hands above your head
Spinning around, trying not to look down
But you did, and you fell, hard on the ground

This song is an example of anaphoric repetition. The phrase repeated is "your the only one who." This is repeated with two different endings. This relates to my theme of society in alternative because in the song the singer talks about someone being the only one who understands her. This is shown when she says "Your the only one who knows exactly what I mean." This relates to society because it shows that she doesn't feel accepted by society and the person she is talking to is the only person who really gets her.

Repetation Analysis Song One: You Found Me-The Fray

You Found Me

I found god
On the corner of first and Amistad
Where the west was all but won
All alone, smoking his last cigarette
I Said where you been, he said ask anything
Where were you?
When everything was falling apart
All my days were spent by the telephone
It never rang
And all I needed was a call
That never came
To the corner of first and Amistad

Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why’d you have to wait?
Where were you?
Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me

In the end everyone ends up alone
Losing her, the only one who’s ever known
Who I am, who I’m not, who I want to be
No way to know how long she will be next to me

Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why’d you have to wait?
Where were you, where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me

Early morning,
City breaks
I’ve been calling for years and years and years and years
And you never left me no messages
You never send me no letters
You got some kind of nerve, taking all I want
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Where were you where were you

Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lying on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why’d you have to wait?
Where were you, where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me

Why’d you have to wait?
To find me, to find me


The I chose to analyze was The Fray You Found Me. I chose this song for the repetition of the phrase "You found me." This is an example of epistrophic repetition because it is the end of a sentence. This relates to my theme of Society in Alternative music because the person addressed in the song could be portrayed as society in a whole. In the song, the singer talks about how he was "Lost and insecure" and that the addressee was found, but "just a little late." This could mean that he was lost in life and felt he did not belong anywhere and society found him, but it was too late for him to be accepted.

Metaphor Analysis Two: John Mayer- Vultures

Vultures

Some of us,
We're hardly ever here
The rest of us, we're born to disappear
How do I stop myself from
Being just a number
How will I hold my head
To keep from going under

Down to the wire
I wanted water but
I'll walk through the fire
If this is what it takes
To take me even higher
Then I'll come through
Like I do
When the world keeps
Testing me, testing me,testing me

How did they find me here
What do they want from me
All of these vultures hiding
Right outside my door
I hear them whisperin
They're tryin to ride it out
They've never gone this long
Without a kill before

Down to the wire
I wanted water but
I'll walk through the fire
If this is what it takes
To take me even higher
Then I'll come through
Like I do
When the world keeps
Testing me, testing me, testing me

Wheels up
I got to leave this evening
Can't seem to shake these vultures
Off of my trail
Power is made, by power being taken
So I keep on running
To protect my situation

Down to the wire
I wanted water but
I'll walk through the fire
If this is what it takes
To take me even higher
Then I'll come through
Like I do
When the world keeps
Testing me, testing me

Oooooooooooo
Oooooooooooo
Oooooooooooo
Oooooooooooo

Whatcha gonna do about it
Whatcha gonna do about it
Whatcha gonna do about it

Don't give up give up
Don't give up give up give up
Don't give up give up
Don't give up give up give up

This song is an has many metaphors in it, all saying that their are vultures coming after him. This songs says things like "How did they find me here? What do they want from me? All of these vultures hiding right outside my door." This songs main meaning is that the press is coming after him and he can't seem to get away from him. He says that to he would "Walk through the fire, if this is what it take to take me even higher." meaning that he would do things that he doesn't want to or that could be harmful to him to get away from them. This relates to my theme of society because it shows how society is obsessed with famous people and the press wants to know everything about them. There is no privacy for them.

Metaphor Analysis One: The White Stripes-Little Acorns

Little Acorns

Take all your problems
And rip 'em apart

Carry them off
In a shopping cart

And another thing
You should've known from the start
The problems in hand
Are lighter than at heart

Be like the squirrel, girl
Be like the squirrel
Give it a whirl, girl
Be like the squirrel

And another thing
You have to know in this world
Cut up your hair
Straighten your curls

Well, your problems
Hide in your curls

This song is all an extended metaphor. The meaning of this song is that society tells you to take all your problems and everything unhappy that has happened to you in your life and to rip them up and forget about them. To just get over them. It also says that society tells you to just keep burrowing and to "keep collecting little acorns." When it says "well, your problems hide in your curls." This means that your problems are only the things that make you different, and to not have problems you have to not be different at all.

Simile Analysis Two: Goo Goo Dolls Iris

Iris Lyrics

And I'd give up forever to touch you,
Cause I know that you feel me somehow.
You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be,
And I don't want to go home right now.

And all I can taste is this moment,
And all I can breathe is your life,
And sooner or later it's over,
I just don't want to miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me,
Cause I don't think that they'd understand.
When everything's made to be broken,
I just want you to know who I am.

And you cant fight the tears that ain't coming,
Or the moment of the truth in your lies.
When everything feels like the movies,
Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive.

And I don't want the world to see me,
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand.
When everything's made to be broken,
I just want you to know who I am.
And I don't want the world to see me,
Cause I don't think that they'd understand.
When everything's made to be broken,
I just want you to know who I am.

And I don't want the world to see me,
Cause I dont think that they'd understand.
When everything's made to be broken,
I just want you to know who I am.
I just want you to know who I am.
I just want you to know who I am.
I just want you to know who I am.


The simile in this song is in the line "When everything feels like the movies, yeah you bleed just to know your alive." What this simile means is that when everything and everyone around you feels fake and nothing feels real or right, you just need something to know that your real even if nothing else is. This relates to my theme of society because society can feel like there is nothing real about it and can swallow you whole till you don't even know if your real or not either. This song also relates when he says "And I don't wan the world to see me, cause I don't think that they'd understand." this means that he doesn't want to show himself to the world because he is afraid that that society will judge him and will not understand him.

Simile Analysis One: Anna Nalick- Breathe(2AM)

ANNA NALICK LYRICS Breathe (2 AM)

2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
Can you help me unravel my latest mistake,
I don't love him, winter just wasn't my season
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize,
Hypocrites, you're all here for the very same reason

Cause you can't jump the track,we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button girl,
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe, just breathe,
Woah breathe, just breathe

May he turn 21 on the base at Fort Bliss
Just a day, he sat down to the flask in his fist,
Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year.
Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,
But my God it's so beautiful when the boy smiles,
Wanna hold him, maybe I'll just sing about it.

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button boys,
So cradle your head in your hands,
And breathe, just breathe,
Woah breathe, just breathe

There's a light at each end of this tunnel, you shout'
Cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
These mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around.

2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, its no longer
Inside of me, threatening the life it belongs to
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand.

And breathe, just breathe
Woah breathe, just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe.

There are two similes in this song. The first one is when the singer says "Life's like an hourglass, glued to the table." This mean that life doesn't stop no matter what and no matter if you want it to or not. Time is always moving and it can feel like time is running out, like life is running out. The other simile in this song is "Cause you can't jump the track, were like cars on a cable." This is saying that, as if we were cars on a cable, we can't just drive off when ever we want to. We don't have a choice on when we get off. This relates to my theme because it talks about how they are being judged by society when she says "We walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes. Like they have any right at all to criticize, hypocrites you're all here for the very same reason." This to me says that they are doing something that society tells people to judge eachother about.

Narritive Song

Crash Test Dummies Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Lyrics

Once there was this kid who
Got into an accident and couldn't come to school
But when he finally came back
His hair had turned from black into bright white
He said that it was from when
The cars had smashed so hard
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Once there was this girl who
Wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room
But when they finally made her
They saw birthmarks all over her body
She couldn't quite explain it
They'd always just been there
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
But both girl and boy were glad
'Cause one kid had it worse than that '
Cause then there was this boy whose
Parents made him come directly home right after school
And when they went to their church
They shook and lurched all over the church floor
He couldn't quite explain it
They'd always just gone there
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

The Song I chose as my narrative song is Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by the Crash Test Dummies. It tells a story about three individuals who all have things about them that make them different. The first two verses are about a girl and a boy who have something physically different about them. The boy has white hair and the girl has birth marks everywhere. The third is about a boy whose parents are very religious and different. I believe the meaning of this song is that you may think that you have it bad because of something in your life that makes you different or makes you uncool, but their is always someone who has it just as bad or even worse. This connects to my theme of Society because it shows how people feel they need to hide things and be someone they are not because they do not exactly fit in with what society wants them to be.