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"Love Song"- Sara Bareilles
ReplyDeleteHead under water and they tell me
To breathe easy for awhile
The breathing gets harder even i know that
Made room for me it's too soon to see
If i'm happy in your hands
I'm unusually hard to hold on to
Blank stares at blank pages
No easy way to say this
You mean well
But you make this hard on me
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you ask for it
'cause you need one you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you tell me it's make or breaking this
If you're on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
All you have is leaving
I'm gon' need a better reason
To write you a love song today today
I learned the hard way that they all say
Things you wanna hear
My heavy heart sinks deep down under
You and your twisted words
Your help just hurts
You are not what i thought you were
Hello to high and dry
Convinced me to please you
Made me think that i need this too
I'm trying to let you hear me as i am
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you ask for it
'cause you need one you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you tell me it's make or breaking this
If you're on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
If all you have is leaving
I'ma need a better reason
To write you a love song today
Promise me you'll leave the light on
To help me see daylight my guide gone
'cause i believe there's a way
You can love me because i say
I won't write you a love song
'cause you ask for it
'cause you need one you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you tell me it's make or breaking this
Is that why you wanted a love song?
'cause you asked for it
'cause you need one you see
I'm not gonna write you a love song
'cause you tell me it's make or breaking this
If you're on your way
I'm not gonna write you to stay
If your heart is nowhere in it
I don't want it for a minute
Babe i'll walk the seven seas
When i believe that there's a reason
To write you a love song today today
The song I am doing for my project is "Love Song", written by Sara Bareilles. At first, I thought the song was about her boyfriend wanting her to write a love song to prove her love to him, but then I analyzed the song more and found its true meaning. I believe she is told by her manager that she must write a love song to become a popular song artist. She is having trouble writing this song because it does not come from her heart. Sara wrote this song on what the music isdustry is like.
No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low.
ReplyDeleteThat is you can't you know tune in but it's all right.
That is I think it's not too bad.
Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.
It doesn't matter much to me.
Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Always know sometimes think it's me, but you know I know and it's a dream.
I think I know of thee, ah yes, but it's all wrong.
That is I think I disagree.
Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to Strawberry Fields.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.
Strawberry Fields forever.
In the song "Strawberry Fields Forever" by John Lennon, he uses the phrase "...and nothing to get hung about." This line along with other phrases are lines from john's childhood. When he was young, he loved playing in the garden behind the Salvation Army called "Strawberry Fields" near his Aunt's house. They didn't like when he and his friends would play there and told them to stop. And when his aunt enforced the rule, he replied, "they won't hang me for it." Implying that it's no big deal.
Speechless- Stefani Germanotta or Lady Gaga
ReplyDeleteI can’t believe what you said to me
Last night when we were alone
You threw your hands up
Baby you gave up, you gave up
I can’t believe how you looked at me
With your James Dean glossy eyes
In your tight jeans with your long hair
And your cigarette stained lies
Could we fix you if you broke?
And is your punch line just a joke?
I’ll never talk again
Oh boy you’ve left me speechless
You’ve left me speechless, so speechless
I can’t believe how you slurred at me
With your half wired broken jaw
You popped my heart seams
On my bubble dreams, bubble dreamsa
I can’t believe how you looked at me
With your Johnnie Walker eyes
He’s gonna get you and after he’s through
There’s gonna be no love left to rye
And I know that it’s complicated
But I’m a loser in love
So baby raise a glass to mend
All the broken hearts
Of all my messed up friends
I’ll never talk again
Oh boy you’ve left me speechless
You’ve left me speechless so speechless
I’ll never love again,
Lady Gaga Speechless lyrics found on http://www.directlyrics.com.com/lady-gaga-speechless-lyrics.html
Oh friend you’ve left me speechless
You’ve left me speechless, so speechless
Hooow?
Haaaa-oooo-wow?
H-ooow?
Wow
Haaaa-oooo-wow?
H-ooow?
Wow
And after all the drinks and bars that we’ve been to
Would you give it all up?
Could I give it all up for you?
And after all the boys and girls that we’ve been through
Would you give it all up?
Could you give it all up?
If I promise to you boy
That I’ll never talk again
And I’ll never love again
I’ll never write a song
Won’t even sing along
I’ll never love again
So speechless
You left me speechless, so speechless
Why you so speechless, so speechless?
Will you ever talk again?
Oh boy, why you so speechless?
You’ve left me speechless
Some men may follow me
But you choose “death and company”
Why you so speechless? Oh oh oh
This song is titled Speechless by Lady Gaga. After reading the lyrics of this song I thought it was a very simple message, a story of how a guy broke her heart but she still won't give up on him. However Lady Gaga is known to always have a deeper meaning to her songs. I researched more about the song and found out that it was written in her mom's perspective about her father and his surgery. Her father was diagnosed with a heart condition. Lady Gaga and her father never really got along and to him she was a dissappointment. When he refused to get surgery, she wrote this song for him. After she said that if he didn't receive the surgery then she would quit music and help take care of her family. The song convinced her father to get the surgery and now he is doing much better.
Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity
ReplyDeleteTo seize everything you ever wanted in one moment
Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?
Yeah,
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready
To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting
What he wrote down, the whole crowd goes so loud
He opens his mouth, but the words won't come out
He's choking how, everybody's choking now
The clock's run out, time's up over, bloah!
Snap back to reality, oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that
Easy, no
He won't have it, he knows his whole back's to these ropes
It don't matter, he's dope
He knows that, but he's broke
He's so stagnant that he knows
When he goes back to his mobile home, that's when it's
Back to the lab again yo
This whole rhapsody
He better go capture this moment and hope it don't pass him
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
This soul's escaping, through this hole that is gaping
This world is mine for the taking
Make me king, as we move toward a, new world order
A normal life is boring, but superstardom's close to post mortem
It only grows harder, homey grows hotter
He blows it's all over, these hoes is all on him
Coast to coast shows, he's know as the Globetrotter
Lonely roads, God only knows
He's grown farther from home, he's no father
He goes home and barely knows his own daughter
But hold your nose 'cause here goes the cold water
These hoes don't want him no mo', he's cold product
They moved on to the next schmoe who flows
He nose dove and sold nada
So the soap opera is told and unfolds
I suppose it's old partner, but the beat goes on
Da da dum da dum da da
No more games, I'ma change what you call rage
Tear this roof off like two dogs caged
I was playing in the beginning, the mood all changed
I been chewed up, and spit out, and booed off stage
But I kept rhyming and stepwritin' the next cypher
Best believe somebody's paying the pied piper
All the pain inside amplified by the
Fact that I can't get by with my nine to five
And I can't provide the right type of life for my family
'Cause man, these Goddamn food stamps don't buy diapers
And it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life
And these times are so hard and it's getting even harder
Trying to feed and water my seed, plus
Teeter totter caught up between being a father and a prima donna
Baby mama drama's screaming on and
Too much for me to wanna
Stay in one spot, another day of monotony
Has gotten me to the point, I'm like a snail
I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot
Success is my only option, failure's not
Mom, I love you, but this trailer's got to go
I cannot grow old in Salem's Lot
So here I go is my shot.
Feet fail me not 'cause maybe the only opportunity that I got.
This song is called "lose Yourself" written by Eminem. Eminem's childhood was one that most people would not want to remember. So the majority of his songs are about the anger that he has built up towards everything. This specific song is about him pursuing his dream of beconming an music artist and all of the hardships that came through this dream. There is a rhyming scheme throuhgout the song which also attracts people to it.
My child arrived just the other day
ReplyDeleteHe 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
And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you dad
You know I'm gonna be like you"
And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home dad?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then
My son turned ten just the other day
He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play
Can you teach me to throw", I said "Not today
I got a lot to do", he said, "That's ok"
And he walked away but his smile never dimmed
And said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know I'm gonna be like him"
And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then
Well, he came home from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
"Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while?"
He shook his head and said with a smile
"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later, can I have them please?"
And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then
I've long since retired, my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind"
He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I can find the time
You see my new job's a hassle and kids have the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, Dad
It's been sure nice talking to you"
And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me
And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then
When I first analysed this song I thought that the singer Harry Chapin just never had a relationship with his son. But, after learning more about Mr. Chapin I discovered that he died a tragic death in a car accident at the age of 38 and at the time his child was only a baby so he could not have written the song about his child. Then I realized this had to be Harry Chapin's relationship with his dad, but this too was wrong. The origin of the song came from a poem Harry's wife was writing about her first husbands relationship with his father. Harry thought it sounded great and also related to the birth of his first child.
"American Pie" by Don McLean:
ReplyDeleteA long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And, maybe, they'd be happy for a while.
But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver.
Bad news on the doorstep;
I couldn't take one more step.
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride,
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.
So bye-bye, Miss American pie.
Drove my Chevy to the levee,
But the levee was dry.
And them good old boys were drinking whiskey 'n rye
Singing, "this'll be the day that I die.
"this'll be the day that I die."
Did you write the book of love,
And do you have faith in God above,
If the Bible tells you so?
Now, do you believe in rock 'n roll?
Can music save your mortal soul?
And, can you teach me how to dance real slow?
Well, I know that you're in love with him
`cause I saw you dancing in the gym.
You both kicked off your shoes.
Man, I dig those rhythm and blues.
I was a lonely teenage broncing buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck,
But I knew I was out of luck
The day the music died.
REFRAIN
Now for ten years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rolling stone,
But, that's not how it used to be.
When the jester sang for the king and queen,
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
With a voice that came from you and me,
Oh, and while the king was looking down,
The jester stole his thorny crown.
The courtroom was adjourned;
No verdict was returned.
And while Lennon read a book on Marx,
The quartet practiced in the park,
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died.
REFRAIN
Helter Skelter in a summer swelter.
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter,
Eight miles high and falling fast.
It landed foul on the grass,
The players tried for a forward pass,
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast.
Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While the sergeants played a marching tune.
We all got up to dance,
Oh, but we never got the chance!
`cause the players tried to take the field;
The marching band refused to yield.
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died?
REFRAIN
Oh, and there we were all in one place,
A generation lost in space
With no time left to start again.
So come on: jack be nimble, jack be quick!
Jack flash sat on a candlestick
'Cause fire is the devil's only friend.
Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage.
No angel born in hell
Could break that Satan's spell.
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite,
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
REFRAIN
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news,
But she just smiled and turned away.
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldn't play.
And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken;
The church bells all were broken.
And the three men I admire most:
The father, son, and the holy ghost,
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died.
REFRAIN
REFRAIN
The song "American Pie" is one the most famous songs written in the last 50 years in America. It was written by country singer and rock musician Don McLean, and it serves as a piece commemorating Buddy Holly. In McLean's opinion, with the death of Buddy came the death of Rock 'n Roll. However, the song focuses on other events that happened between Holly's fatal plane crash and the song's release. Some include the Lost Generation, drug use in the 60's, and the rise of newer musicians with the decline of the older Rock artists (such as Mic Jagger, and Bob Dylan).
Courtesy of the Red White and Blue (The Angry American) by Toby Keith
ReplyDeleteAmerican girls and American guys, will always stand up and salute.
We'll always recognize, when we see ol' glory flying,
There's a lot of men dead,
So we can sleep in peace at night when we lay down our heads.
My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye,
But he flew a flag out in our yard 'til the day that he died.
He wanted my mother, my brother, my sister and me.
To grow up and live happy in the land of the free.
Now this nation that I love is fallin' under attack.
A mighty sucker-punch came flying in from somewhere in the back.
Soon as we could see clearly through our big black eye,
Man, we lit up your world like the fourth of July.
Hey, Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist.
And the eagle will fly and it's gonna be hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell.
And it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you.
Ah, brought to you, courtesy of the red, white and blue.
Instrumental break.
Oh, justice will be served and the battle will rage:
This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage.
An' you'll be sorry that you messed with the U.S. of A.
'Cos we'll put a boot in your ass, it's the American way.
Hey, Uncle Sam put your name at the top of his list,
And the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist.
And the eagle will fly and it's gonna be hell,
When you hear Mother Freedom start ringing her bell.
And it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you.
Ah, brought to you, courtesy of the red, white and blue.
The song Courtesy of the Red White and Blue by Toby Keith is a very patriotic song. The song contains a lot of history about Toby Keith’s father’s life and the terrorist attacks on 9-11. The basis of the song originated when Toby Keith wanted to dedicate a song to his father. The attacks on 9-11 prompted him to write a song about American pride and his father’s patriotism. The song literally represents the events that unfold after a country attacked America. When the song was first created, it was only played live in concert for American soldiers. Several people, including the record company, tried to convince Toby Keith to record the song. However, he refused. After a concert for the troops, a General approached Toby Keith telling him how much he enjoyed the song. The General convinced Keith that it was his duty as an American to let the world hear the song. Keith was now convinced that he should record the song for the American people. The first time the song aired was on the 4th of July 2002. It went to the top of the charts.
Now you've got something to die for.
ReplyDeleteInfidel, Imperial
Lust for blood, a blind crusade
Apocalyptic, we count the days.
Bombs to set the people free, blood to feed the dollar tree
Flags for coffins on the screen, oil for the machine
Army of the liberation, gunpoint indoctrination
The fires of sedition
Fulfill the prophecy.
Now you've got something to die for.
Send the children to the fire, sons and daughters stack the pyre
Stoke the flame of the empire, live to lie another day
Face of hypocrisy, raping democracy
Apocalyptic, we count the days.
We'll never get out of this hole until we've dug our own grave
And drug the rest down with us, the burning home of the brave
Burn.
Now you've got something to die for.
Live Like We're Dying by Kris Allen
ReplyDeleteSometimes we fall down and can't get back up
We're hiding behind skin thats to tough
How come we don't say I love you enough
Till it's to late, it's not to late
Our hearts are hungry for a food that won't come
We could make a feast from these crumbs
We're all staring down the barrel of a gun
So if your life flashed before you
What would you wish you would've done
Yeah gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given here
This is all that we got and we gotta start thinkin it
Every second counts on a clock thats tickin
Gotta live like we're dying
We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
To turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell em that we love em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying
And if your plane fell out of the sky
Who would you call with your last goodbye
Should be so careful who we left out of our lives
So when we're left for absolution
There'll be no one on the line
Yeah gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given here
This is all that we got and we gotta start thinkin it
Every second counts ona clock thts tickin
Gotta live like we're dying
We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
To turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell em that we love em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying
Like we're dying
Ohhhh like we're dying
Like we're dying
Ohhhh like we're dying
We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
To turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell em that we love em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying
You never know a good thing til it's gone
You never see a crash til it's heads on
All these people right when we're dead wrong
You never know a good thing til it's gone
Yeah gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given here
This is all that we got and we gotta start thinkin it
Every second counts ona clock thts tickin
Gotta live like we're dying
We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
To turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell em that we love em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying
Like we're dying
Ohhhh like we're dying
Like we're dying
Ohhhh like we're dying
We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
To turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell em that we love em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying
By the American Idol winner of Season 8, Kris Allen, this hit has a straight forward literal meaning as well as deeper meanings. Just by the lyrics, it is literally saying how you should appreciate every minute while you can because life is too short to waste anything and the "clock thats tickin'" keeps on going. Take the time while you can to love life and live everyday like it is the last. It basically has an inspirational message and that is why i really like the song. It is really relatable as well and it is a feel good song.
Boy with a coin he found in the weeds
ReplyDeletewith bullets and pages of trade magazines
close to a car THAT flipped on the turn
when God left the ground to circle the world
Hey--- Oh----
Girl with a bird she found in the snow
that flew up her gown, and that's how she knows
that God made her eyes for crying at birth
then left the ground to circle the earth
Hey--- Oh----
Boy with a coin he crammed in his jeans
then making a wish, and tossed in the sea
then walked to a town that all of us burned
when God left the ground to circle the world
Hey--- Oh----
Hey--- Oh----
In this song, Boy With A Coin by Iron & Wine it is somewhat confusing on what the literal meaning may be but I had interpreted that it was all about God. It says how God can either be good to you or destructive. In this song it is saying how he can be destructive through karma. It is saying how God does not want you to be obsessive over things that don't really matter and he does not want you disobeying him. Though when people do disobey him bad things happen to them which is the karma God then places on them. Though everyone views God differently i don't see it as being so much as a religious figure it is just more of a moral and a lesson to people that you should be thankful for what you have, and not get caught up in the unimportant things.
I can't get started from the part
ReplyDeleteWhere I left off yesterday
Shoulda spent my time a little wiser
I sat alone guilty as sin
Waiting for words to come
From out of my head
Still making sense to anyone
I can't wait to understand the reason
I've yet to translate any meaning besides
It's not worth it to try
Get out (x2)
Lock myself up in a room without a window
Just to see if it was any easier to breathe
(I was lost)
Never underestimate the daylight
There is so much easier to breathe
I can't wait to understand the reason
I've yet to translate any meaning besides
It's not worth it to try
Get out (x4)
There's no meaning besides
It's not worth it to try
Get Out (x5)