After I read the poem, I think why do I follow people’s mind to live. It's always about owning our own lives, being responsible for who we are through the choices we make.…
In my point of view the song is very descriptive and has personal touches from the song writer, as he had family and friends involved in the Vietnam War.…
It does not have a narrative or a straight forward statement. It is an expression of a feeling of ennui and company that helps to mitigate it, even if not with the ideal methods. This, and the other songs on the E.P. were all written while my girlfriend was undergoing intense chemotherapy. This was dark time and methods were bound to be less than ideal. We coped. We survived.…
The piece is written from the viewpoint of someone attending a funeral. The music walks the audience through the grieving emotional state of this ambiguous character and connects them to the painful sorrow, happy reminiscing, and frustrated anger that is heard throughout the piece. It accomplishes this because of its scoring and representation of emotions and actions. If this were to be his final judgement, I would whole-heartedly agree with…
At first I thought that the music was not in tandem with these lyrics at all. The lyrics have such depression in them at first while the music itself is so peppy and upbeat. I could not understand how they worked together. That for me was the site of struggle. Hegemonic norms tell us that songs about death and sadness should be slow and heavy. This song has such energy to it and resists hegemonic norms so that it couldn’t possibly fall into the category of death. I listened to the song a few more times and I realized that the song was not just a sad retelling of a story, but it is a memorial of…
This is a very powerful song about what all Vietnam veterans went through in the Vietnam war and all the emotions and experiences they have gone through…
There is a certain pain that is felt whenever a loved one passes. Beyond sadness, it is hurt, it is anger, it is confusion, and an almost unidentifiable emptiness where the lungs should be. People who have not experienced such loss have a happy, if hazy, view of the world. Then, there are those who lose someone… a major someone... so very special. They do eventually move on, but the pain alters them forever. Ed Sheeran, in the song “Afire Love,” illustrates how the loss of an individual can impact everyone around them, young and old.…
In music, I compare my troubles and tribulations with the lyrics. Towards the middle of the piece, it begins to build up. When I was around 9 years old, my mom passed away from failure to receive a liver transplant. This hit my family hard and to this day, we are still haunted by the day God took her away. Since this is the middle of the piece, it's starting to have emotion and deep feelings within it. Anger, hurt, and sorrow was what I was feeling when my mom passed away. I was confused and mad at the world. I didn't quite understand why people had to die since I was only 9 after all. There was always a question of why and to this day, there still is.…
The lyrics from this song tell the sad story of the wars faced by this country. “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.” The tragic past of the many soldiers lost to wars fought with other nations shows the dark side of how our country got to where it is today. Many good people lost their lives fighting for the freedom of this country, and for the American Dream. Even though the American Dream is a great one, it comes at a high…
My inspiration was the people in Hawaii. Many people slowly and affectionately bid each other farewell, that is why we famously us this song as a farewell to Hawaii as they lost their independence.…
Like James Baldwin said “only an artist can tell and only an artist have told, since we have heard of man, what it is like for anyone that gets this planet, to survive it. What it is like to die, or to have somebody die, what it is like to fear death, what is it like to fear, what it is like to love, what it is like to be glad.” Music expresses the pain, suffering, love and all sorts of emotions that we cannot express but just normal verbal means. Artists talk about the depressing topics that we are afraid to talk about and express our inner emotions for us and give us a sense of relief that someone else can relate to us. In the revelation of the narrator at the end of the story he realized that of all the things he been through that there is still light at the end of the tunnel because he still have his brother, they are surviving and living.…
I think it was made because people loved to sing in the past. It is a song about freedom.…
The feeling of how someone missed something in their lifetime is what the song shows. When the songs says,”never a wish better than this,” is shows how feeling sadness and sorrow is not an option, and living is the best thing anyone can ever…
i was listening to dis song when i found out that my daddy was no longer with us last month.i believe that a lot of heart and soul went into this song as it's still helping me heal.Thank you Ledisi.…
Matthew Paul Miller, also known as Matisyahu, was born in Pennsylvania in 1979. Matisyahu emerged in the early 2000’s with his inquisitive reggae Jewish pop music. His tranquil song “One Day” was released on his “Light” album by Sony Music Entertainment in 2009 (Crew 1). It is the most downloaded and listened to song on the album. The lyrics promote a message of self-abnegation and compassion.…