Meaningful Music: Rascal Flatts – Stand
No matter how perfect a person is, they will always go through some hardships in their lives. Just like the song’s title “Stand”, the goal of the artists is to have their listeners stand up after their hardships and not give up. This song is especially compelling to the audience because the lyrics directly speak to their situations while describing a scene that allows the listeners to feel as if the artist are directly in the situation with them causing a feeling of comfort.
The simplicity of the lyrics allows for the audience to completely understand each word, which speak directly to their emotions causing a feeling of personal connection between the song and the listeners. For example, the song starts
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This evokes a direct connection with their emotions causing them to be more susceptible to let the meaning of the song resonate through their bodies. The image that the artists convey is easily understandable by the audience mainly because of the lyrics ease of interpretation. The song starts off by describing the scene as a “picture with a broken frame” letting the listener to imagine their life currently being shattered into many pieces. Then, the song describes life as “The edge of a canyon with only one way down”, which allows the audience to imagine that they have only one outcome, which is to fail. After being placed in this unescapable place, the song starts to describe another setting as a safe haven that anyone can reach. This place is found while looking up to the “sky on your knees” giving this place the significance of “heaven”. Once the person has found this place, the song says, “One more small piece of you/Starts to fall into place” reminding them of the picture frame that was broken being put back together. In order for the lyrics to be effective, the audience needed to feel comfortable when listening to the
The narrator is presented as this strong figure at first, but the piece tears away this wall brick by brick. In stanza six when they are coming back from Mexico, the narrator says the drugs “might help him live longer.” The biggest turn of hopelessness is in stanza 8 for the narrator. His brother falls into a coma and his brother’s lover cries in his arms and he “Wonder(s) how much longer you will be able to be strong.”(Lassell 481) It only progresses only further when the narrator says: “Offer God anything to bring your brother back. Know you have nothing God could possibly want.”(Lassell 481) The narrator becomes almost emotionless during the funeral of his brother, and it shows that this sense of hopelessness has grown even larger, to the fact where he stands in silence and stares at the casket. During the funeral, he thinks to himself “Know that your brother 's life was not what you imagined.”(Lassell
While some of the songs may have a specific meaning, it is up to the listener to decide what they
Music is regarded as a method of passing a message. Though some songs do not intend to do that, the message in them is still perceived. The song, “Get up, ...
So that I don’t have to explain to them what it is about. Because I will not be describing nor will I explain what the artist meant from, when he was writing the song. I will be putting my own twist and thought about it. My main purpose is to make the audience think outside the box, and see how a totally different experience or event can relate somehow back to the song. That you can take something like “love you”, and somehow connect it back to a war or a celebration. The only limitation is your own
They are sweet and upbeat in a way that is appealing to the young and repelling to the old. This sense of youthfulness and urgency within the lyrics gives young listeners a sense of power and makes them proud to be defiant towards the values their parents have forced upon them. The tune, while staying buoyant, evokes fury and rebellion, which is exactly The Who’s intended goal
Song lyrics have set off a great generation of our leisure time than reading poetic devices, therefore song lyrics are better than poetic devices. Song lyrics have dropped numerous lines that attach to us now a days and make us listen to the line over and over unlike poetic devices. Song Lyrics have so much meaning by word choice and by relations.”Mr. Rager” by Kid Cudi, is about people fed up with society and plan on taking a journey. “Dreams” by Edgar Allen Poe, is about a man who dreams of a greater life. Mr. Rager, the song by Scott Cudi, has a better meaning than Dreaming, the poem by Edgar Allen Poe, by personification, allusion, and symbolism.
In todays society poetry is all around us, we use it in music to deliver messages to the average radio listener. According to SelectUSA (The creative Media industry in the United States) The United States music industry in 2011 reached 15.2 billion dollars. With the information given a person can tell that a lot of time and money goes into music in today’s society. The music people listen to have many different elements that an average listener would not pick up. Many songs have poetic techniques that give great meaning to the song that makes the song unique. The song I Love the way you Lie by Eminem and Rihanna and the song Airplanes by B.o.B are similar in ways they use poetic devises and how the over all message of the two songs can relate to the average person that listen to the song.
Connections can be made between Landslide by Fleetwood Mac, and the image within the presentation with the use of both literary, and visual techniques. In both Landslide and the corresponding image, conflict is present. The lyric “I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills ‘til the landslide brought me down” illustrates how the character in the song has lost her sense of direction and identity that she once had. Since she is overwhelmed by the numerous personal issues in her life, specifically, the loss of her romantic relationship. This is also supported by the lyric “I climbed a mountain and I turned around”, in the sense that she put a substantial amount of effort
As the first poem in the book it sums up the primary focus of the works in its exploration of loss, grieving, and recovery. The questions posed about the nature of God become recurring themes in the following sections, especially One and Four. The symbolism includes the image of earthly possessions sprawled out like gangly dolls, a reference possibly meant to bring about a sense of nostalgia which this poem does quite well. The final lines cement the message that this is about loss and life, the idea that once something is lost, it can no longer belong to anyone anymore brings a sense...
... lines of each stanza and the “Yes” before most lines. This makes the words really stick to you. I think the song is very affective because all of the comparisons he makes are all so true. I also think because he made the song from different perspectives including the blacks, whites, and the government makes a big difference too. It makes it so that you can rather see what it feels like to be in the different people’s shoes.
The song “Broken Glass” by Three Days Grace starts off by explaining on how the speaker is broken and it’s going to last forever, and they’re soulless and you going to do self harm. It’s better at night for your harm, thrill and your excitement. The speaker are broken and it’s meant to last forever. They’re soulless and they can’t be fixed. The speaker says that they didn’t know how broken they really are and it was only the beginning. The speaker is slowly getting broken even more with them knowing it, but they don’t know how long they’re was going to stay like that. They’re still broken and soulless. The speaker could hurt others around them. They could be like this forever, and people around them wouldn’t even realize it. The speaker continues to be broken and knows they aren’t going to last. They still continue being soulless, and the speaker is going to end up hurting themselves.
His songs, which might be considered as simple, actually have deeply philosophical meaning to contemplate on. For instance, the song “Our Love” which he performed tells about the power of love over any biases, stereotypes and differences. Like the song “Our Love”, there are many lyrics which reaffirm the belief in life and love, as well as depict the challenges and struggles on the way. That is why everyone can connect to the songs, finding one aspect of life or another which one has experienced, as
In the opening verse of the song, the speaker discusses the need to see her childhood home at least once more before moving on with her life. She shares with the current homeowner some of her experiences while growing up in the house. For instance, she says, “I know they say you can’t go home again, but I just had to come back one last time.” This shows that the speaker realizes that returning “home” is going to be a different experience than it was when she lived there, but she cannot resist the temptation of a final visit to the “house”. The speaker says that “Up those stairs in that little back bedroom, is where I did my homework and learned to play guitar. And I bet you didn’t know, under that live oak, my favorite dog is buried in the yard.” This indicates some of the significant memories the speaker has of her time in the house, such as honing her...
These songs made their way throughout history. People listened to these songs during protest and rallies when they wanted to feel a sense of prosperity. For example, during 2011, protesters on Occupy Wall St. scattered around the world “challenging social and economic inequality, as well as corporate greed and its influence upon government policy. The uncompromising sentiments expressed on Bob’s “Get Up Stand Up”, lyrics that are repeatedly chanted at these demonstrations, seem to have directly inspired the protesters’ dissenting stance: “Some people think a great God will come down from the sky, take away everything and make everybody feel high/but if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth and now we see the light, we’re gonna stand up for our rights!””
The song accomplishes such a thing by taking the approach of a man who knows he is dying, and who takes a nice approach to it. Before the man dies and gets to experience the beauty of heaven, he explains to his loved ones that he doesn't want them to cry for him when he is gone but rather be happy for him. Images of different seasons of the year to explain the process of growing older. Images that depict the fading of light in a persons soul transforming into darkness. Images that the reader can perceive as vivid actions.