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“Drive (for Daddy Gene)” is written and performed by country music singer Alan Jackson. This song is a wonderful heartfelt song that most can relate to. It’s about a boy and his dad doing things together. Anyone with a dad male or female can relate. This song was written in January 2002 and was written for Jackson’s father who died on January 31, 2000. “Drive” hit number 1 on US billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks and number 29 on Billboard Hot 100. Alan Jackson sings about memories he had with his father. He tells us about an old wood boat that him and his father restored. His father would let him drive in a lake in Alabama. The ran it for years until it got rotten. Jackson sings, “I was king of the ocean when daddy let me drive.” (Alan Jackson) …show more content…
“Just a dirt road with trash on each side but I was Mario Andretti when daddy let me drive” Jackson sings. (Alan Jackson)
In the final verse e sings about being all grown up with three daughters. He would let them drive an old worn out jeep around the pasture at his home. He hopes thy will pull out that memory and think of him and smile. All dads hope for that. In the video for this song it starts off with a young boy looking at a book of memories with his father. They were boating and smiling and looking happy. Than it shows them driving in the ford they fixed. In the last verse of video, he uses his own three daughters and they are driving around in the Jeep. This song means so much to me because it reminds me of my dad. He use to let me drive down the road on his lap. We did most of the same things together and we just loved each other so much. We would spend lots of time together doing things and I always think of those memories and
Another song that I thought a lot about when I heard it was "Grandpa was a Carpenter." I remember a lot about my grandpa and just like in the song Grandpa and me used to do everything together when I was little, and when he got sick, I didn't really understand what was happening because I was so little. I remember how as I got older he couldn't do much anymore.
“Hurt” a song originally recorded by Nine Inch Nails which portrays self-harm and heroin addiction has been covered by many great artists including Johnny cash. When Johnny cash covered this song I got a deferent message from the lyrics while he sings it, maybe it is because of his voice or how he lived his life, but when he is singing this song I get a sense that he is singing about a loved one that has passed on, growing older, and his legacy.
Kingsbury, Paul. The Grand Ole Opry History of Country Music: 70 Years of the Songs,
... song represent each man almost equally in that each man has a difficult, dark past. Each song, while different at first, have many similarities in their result. So if the industrial version by Nine Inch Nails does not appeal to you, maybe the country/gospel version by Johnny Cash is right up your alley.
This song talks a lot about the baggage of the past that people hold onto instead of letting it go. All that baggage is only going to end up hurting you more and more instead of helping you in any way possible. An example is the opening
This is a very emotional song because it is a tribute to the late Paul Walker. It is especially emotional if you have seen the movies or are a fan of Paul. However it is still evocative even if you have never seen Paul Walker before because of how the video is formatted. The director uses cars as an rhetorical tool in the video because Paul was most known for his role in the Fast and Furious series, and he was killed in a car crash because he was speeding. The cars in the video help remind us that he died doing what he loved and that even though he left this world to early he was most likely enjoying himself in the moments before his death.
The lyrics foreshadows and describes the unnamed protagonist. Only after finishing the movie Drive, the audience realizes that the protagonist was showing psychopathic traits throughout the film, but had good intentions. The lyrics talks about how there is something inside of the protagonist referring to his psychopathic traits that are revealed as the story progresses. However, it also says “They're talking about you boy, But you're still the same” (Kaminsky). This is implying that although the protagonist has psychopathic traits, he has a good heart and has always had one.
In Carrie Underwood’s song “Jesus Take the Wheel,” she talks about how someone she knows is losing control of her life because of a very bad car crash and she needs help from Jesus to help her recover. The girl that was in the car crash nearly died and her boyfriend (now her husband) wrote a song about how it was really difficult for her to improve her health and how she needs Jesus to help her through this time. In hopes that his wife would soon get better, he wrote the song “Jesus Take the Wheel” for her and it has won one Grammy Award so far.
father. He admires the times he had with his father, and seeing both of them walk in an
This is the first time I have heard Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run. I like the lyrics to the song, it contains a love story of leaving town with the girl he loves. The song is really heavy with the drums and guitar. Bruce Springsteen also has a soft voice in this song.
The song seems to be a petition from the parents to the child to accept them just as they are, which is quite peculiar since one would expect the conversation to go the other way around. The chorus says ‘Will you stay in our lovers’ story’ , but it is unlikely to be asking one’s child to stay, since they are supposed to flee and live their own life. It doesn’t seem, though, to be asking for the child to physically stay with them, but rather to accept them as they are. The song is called Kooks, and it presents the parents as a couple of strange people which will seem quite different from the rest of parents, but still are going to love their children and take the best care of him they can. In exchange they promise to love him back and put his needs before anything else.
“Car Radio” performed by Twenty One Pilots, is the song I have chosen to break down and explain why it relates to me in my life. It was around one to two years ago late at night when I discovered the song. I was in my room using the app called “Spotify” that plays random music based off an artist or song of your choosing. I was hanging in my room playing video games and surfing the internet when the song came on. Every word I heard I could easily relate them to my life. The song was released on “Youtube” April 19, 2013, but it was released as a single on March 18, 2014. “Car Radio” was written and recorded as Twenty One Pilots’ second and third studio album.
The first verse goes, “it’s the first day of spring / and my life is starting over again / well the trees grow, the river flows / and its water will wash away my sin / for I do believe that everyone / has once chance to f*** up their lives / like a cut down tree, I will rise again / I’ll be bigger and stronger than ever before.” The second verse goes, “there’s hope in every new seed / and every flower that grows on the Earth / and though I love you, and you know that / well I no longer know what that’s worth / and I’ll come back to you, in a year or so / and rebuild ready to become /
This song reassures us that in a world so vast and separated, people can be brought together by love and faith. Similarly, "Dreaming of You" expresses that life can be an unexpected fairytale in which our dreams can and do come true. It paints a picture of a female/male night after night dreaming about the person she/he loves; longing, waiting for the courage to express that love.... ... middle of paper ... ... Listeners reap from this conclusion the sense of hope needed to live out their lives.
The road before us seems to stretch for eternity. Driving away from home, the anticipation to get there is overpowering. The best way to pass time is singing along to dad’s 1980’s music. As the billboards flash by I can only catch